There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ December 15, 1999
Theodore J. O'Keefe is book editor for the Institute for Historical Review, and an associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. He previously worked at the IHR from 1986 until 1994, serving as chief editor of this Journal from 1988 until April 1992. He also addressed the IHR Conferences of 1986, 1987, 1989,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 15, 2013
Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, 72, was convicted of “incitement” after an interview he gave to the Swedish television program Uppdrag granskning in 2008 was broadcast on a German TV station. Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. Williamson was appealing an earlier conviction in 2010. At that time it was reported that prosecutors had asked for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 15, 2013
Sylvia Stolz No sooner did Sylvia Stolz’s five-year disbarment from the legal profession expire, than she again challenged the Holocaust taboo that had already put her in jail for over three years. In Chur, Switzerland, not fifty miles from where William Tell thumbed his nose at Gessler’s hat, Stolz gave a speech before the Anti-Censorship…
By Günter Deckert ∙ February 15, 2013
Friends, Comrades and Fighters for the TRUTH in WW II History, The time has come! I must soon enter prison to serve my 5-month sentence although my constitutional objection has not yet been decided. – I am supposed to report for jail on January 2nd, 2013. The release date will be June 2nd as I…
By Fredrick Töben ∙ December 15, 1999
Fredrick Toben inside the “gas chamber” at the Auschwitz I main camp, April 1997. Dr. Fredrick Töben, an Australian scholar and educator, is free after seven months in German prison for having disputed Holocaust extermination allegations. He was taken into custody in Mannheim on April 8, 1999, and detained, without bail, until his trial in…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 15, 1999
Bradley Smith reports on his work at the Eleventh IHR Conference. Bradley Smith is back in the news. The veteran revisionist activist has touched off a major furor that has received nationwide newspaper and television attention with the distribution at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, of his new 28-page magazine-format publication. He arranged…
By Richard Williamson ∙ February 9, 2013
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed back into the Catholic Church the members of the Society of St. Pius X. This is a traditionalist group which rejects the results of the Second Vatican Council and whose members had been excluded from the Church by Pope John Paul II. Roughly around the same time – what…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Dariusz Ratajczak, a professor at the University of Opole in southern Poland, was suspended in April 1999 from his teaching post following protests over his book, “Dangerous Topics,” in which he writes sympathetically about revisionist scholarship disputing Holocaust claims. Jewish organizations lost no time in voicing alarm over the new book, which apparently is the…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Gerhard Förster Gerhard Förster, a courageous Swiss publisher of revisionist books, died in his sleep during the night of September 22-23, 1998, in a home for the elderly in Baden, northern Switzerland. He was a co-defendant, with Jürgen Graf, in the “Holocaust denial” trial in Switzerland on July 16, 1998 – the most important legal…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 15, 1999
Pedro Varela in the aftermath of the attack on the Europa bookstore, January 16, 1999. In a victory for free speech in Europe, a high court in Spain has suspended a lower court conviction of a Barcelona book dealer for distributing publications that dispute Holocaust extermination claims. On November 16, 1998, a Barcelona criminal court…
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