There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
Few North American writers have come under more sustained attack for outspoken and often unorthodox views than Doug Collins, an acclaimed British-born Canadian author and journalist who writes a popular column for the North Shore News of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Every journalist understands that criticism comes with the job. But the relentless campaign to…
By Douglas Collins ∙ April 2, 1995
Doug Collins served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. An award-winning journalist, he has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. His presentation at the Tenth IHR Conference was published in the Fall 1991 Journal….
By Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1995
Dr. Bernard Lewis, a leading specialist of Middle Eastern studies, is no stranger to academic controversy. But the pugnacious Jewish scholar never imagined that one day he'd find himself obliged to defend his view of history in a Paris court, much less that he'd be publicly compared to French “Holocaust denier” Robert Faurisson. On June…
By Robert Faurisson, Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1995
Concluding a dramatic trial that included stunning testimony by a leading Holocaust researcher, a Paris court in June ordered two French revisionists to pay fines of $3,000 each for writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of Second World War mass killings in German gas chambers. (A brief report on this case appeared in…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
In Austria, as in other European countries, the struggle for freedom of expression and historical truth continues – with victories as well as setbacks. In March 1992, a prominent Austrian engineer made headlines because he had written a detailed essay, “Holocaust: Belief and Facts,” that rejects key elements of the Holocaust gas chamber story. In…
By Marvin Stark, Norman Swartz ∙ February 23, 1995
As we recently reported in these pages (“Revisionist Global Computer Outreach,” July-August 1995 Journal), Jewish organizations such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center regard the growing impact of Holocaust revisionism through the Internet worldwide computer hookup as a grave threat to their vital interests. Confirming this, a front page article in western Canada's leading Jewish community…
By Robert Faurisson, Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
For writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of mass killings in German gas chambers during World War II, two French revisionist scholars have been ordered by a Paris court to pay fines of $3,000 each. The offending 90-page book, written by Prof. Robert Faurisson, is entitled Reponse a Jean-Claude Pressac sur le problème…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
Hans Schmidt Hans Schmidt, a US citizen and German-American civil rights activist, was arrested by German police on August 9, 1995, in Frankfurt, and has been held in prison ever since because of a remark he made in an open letter sent from the United States to an official in Germany. The 68-year-old German-born retired…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
The emergence and rapid growth of the “information superhighway” computer network as a vast global communications forum is dramatically transforming the nature of the international struggle for truth in history and for our basic freedoms. Contributing greatly to the phenomenal growth of the already huge “cyberspace” computer link-up is the Internet, a worldwide network of…
By Mark Weber ∙ July 1, 1995
With his wife, Anneliese, and a friend, the 82-year-old, wheelchair-bound Otto-Ernst Remer arrives in Spain on February 5, 1994. He fled his homeland to evade a 22-month prison sentence in Germany for the “thought crime” of “Holocaust denial.” He has applied for political asylum in Spain. To evade a 22-month jail sentence in Germany for…
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