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By Jett Rucker ∙ August 4, 2016
A high-profile dissenter in Germany had been convicted under that country’s vigorously enforced laws against “popular incitement” for publicly disputing various allegations within the Holocaust narrative, and the identity and motivations of those who defend that narrative. Hans Püschel, who had been the elected mayor of his village of Krauschwitz, pulled no punches on his…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ February 2, 2016
Screen shot of the offending Facebook entry with the Haverbeck video. German Politican Susanne Ulber has been excluded from the German patriotic, anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) for having “denied the Holocaust”. Ulber had posted the video interview German revisionist Ursula Haverbeck had given to a leftist German government TV channel in…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 28, 2015
German Politican Susanne Ulber has been excluded from the German patriotic, anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) for having "denied the holocaust". Ulber had posted the video interview German revisionist Ursula-Haverbeck had given to a leftist German government TV channel in early 2015 on her facebook-account. (See here for our report on that event.) On November 19…
By Costas Zaverdinos ∙ January 15, 2001
Costas Zaverdinos was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1938. Since 1970 he has been with the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg), which awarded him a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1984. He is currently an honorary senior lecturer with the University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Technology of the Faculty of Science. He is the…
By Mark Weber ∙ August 1, 2000
Werner Pfeifenberger (1941-2000): Death Claims a Victim of Legal Persecution Werner Pfeifenberger, a German professor of political science, took his life in Austria on May 13, 2000, a few weeks before he was to go on trial in Vienna for an allegedly revisionist and “neo-Nazi” essay published five years ago. The 58-year-old scholar was scheduled…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 15, 1999
Jürgen Rieger In October 1996 a German government agency “indexed” as “dangerous to youth” translations of two popular leaflets published by the Institute for Historical Review. Germany’s “Federal Review Agency for Literature Dangerous to Youth” (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften), acting at the request of the country’s Interior Ministry, “indexed” unauthorized Internet translations of “The Holocaust:…
By Mark Weber ∙ June 1, 1998
A major advance for historical revisionism in Europe is the appearance of a new German-language scholarly journal, Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung. Now in its second year of publication, this “Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Research” offers first-rate writing and editing, and a high level of scholarship, presented in an attractively laid out and well-illustrated large-size…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1995
As reported in the Jan.-Feb. 1995 Journal. one of France's most prestigious magazines, L'Express. now acknowledges that “everything is false” about the Auschwitz “gas chamber” that for decades has been shown to tens of thousands of tourists yearly. British historian David Irving has been fined 30,000 marks (about $21,000) by German courts for saying the…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1993
German University Professor Charged for Holocaust Remarks A respected German university professor has been charged with “popular incitement” because he told some colleagues six years ago that the Holocaust story is not true. Rainer Ballreich, who teaches “biomechanics” at the sports institute of the University of Frankfurt, reportedly told a few colleagues at a 1987…
By Wilhelm Stäglich ∙ April 1, 1988
While an officer in a German anti-aircraft unit in 1944, Wilhelm Stäglich was for several months stationed in the vicinity of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The postwar doubts he expressed about alleged mass exterminations carried out at Auschwitz have led to twenty years of disciplinary proceedings, including his early retirement from the judiciary with a…
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