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By Arthur R. Butz ∙ April 8, 1999
Dr. Fredrick Töben, Director of Australia's Adelaide Institute, who organized the successful 1998 revisionist conference there, was arrested in Germany on 8 April 1999, on a charge of “defaming the memory of the dead”. He was sent to Mannheim Prison. Töben was on a research visit, mainly in Eastern Europe. His activities are described at…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ August 20, 1998
A revisionist conference was held 7-9 August 1998 in Adelaide, Australia, and I was happy to be in attendance. I was there on the invitation of the Director of the “Adelaide Institute”, Dr. Fredrick Töben, and I gave two short lectures. Arthur R. Butz Conference participants came from the USA and Europe as well as…
By David Irving ∙ January 12, 1997
Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #13 – Dec. 1, 1997 Highlights of This Issue “A Radical's Diary” Who is Gregory Douglas, and did the Americans ever interrogate “Gestapo Müller”? (No.) Letters to David Irving The Willis Carto Affair David Irving confronts Daniel Goldhagen A Radical's Diary By…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ November 18, 1997
Robert M. O'Neil is Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and author of Classrooms in the Crossfire: The Rights and Interests of Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators, Librarians, and the Community. He is also former President of the Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin. His most recent book is Free Speech…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ October 28, 1997
A passage in the New York Times Book Review of 19 October 1997 (p. 19) is too easily passed over. David Greenberg was reviewing the memoirs of John Toland, historian best known for a Hitler biography and the book Infamy, on the Pearl Harbor attack. Greenberg is a Richard Hofstadter Fellow in American History at…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ August 18, 1997
On 1 May 1997 I read, in the Chicago Tribune, of a strange project in a junior high school in the small town of Mahomet, Illinois. A social studies teacher had given his students the task of collecting 6 million tabs from the tops of soda pop cans, in order to get “children to fully…
By David Irving ∙ July 20, 1997
Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #12 – July 20, 1997 Highlights of This Issue The Faking Goes On: Auschwitz being “Reconstructed” “A Radical's Diary” David Irving: That Swiss Gold, “You Gotta Hand it to Them.” When an Auschwitz “kapo” is allowed to talk to German schoolchildren. How…
By CODOH ∙ February 26, 1997
On February 26, a CompuServe official was indicted for providing access to objectionable materials on the Internet. German prosecutors indicted Felix Somm, the Managing Director of CompuServe operations in Germany and Central Europe, for allegedly distributing “illegal pornography” and “other materials.” This marks the first case in which an indictment was rendered against a service…
By David Irving ∙ January 12, 1996
Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #11 – December 18, 1996 Highlights of This Issue U.S. Judge Blasts Hotel Group's “Unlawful” Attempts to Suppress Ideas, Free Speech Australia Reverts to Suppression of Speech “A Radical's Diary” Günter Deckert – Schoolteacher and Father is Jailed by German Thought Police…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ October 29, 1996
An article in the Newark Star-Ledger of 23 Oct. 1996 (p 15) treats Web sites that some consider objectionable. Among these are sites of Holocaust revisionists. Steven Some, Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, said “These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say with facts and figures.” That's…
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