There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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 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 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 ∙ 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…
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 ∙ May 1, 1995
Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager of sales promotions, Elke Berg, who is also the…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
A criminal arson attack on Sunday morning, May 7, badly damaged the headquarters and home in Toronto of German-Canadian publicist Ernst Zündel. “It was set on fire, and it's possible an accelerant was used,” a Toronto police officer said. Authorities estimate damage at approximately $400,000 to the building and the contents inside, including most of…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
In a March 27 raid of the Grabert publishing firm in Tübingen, Germany, criminal police seized all available copies of a new book of Holocaust revisionist scholarship. The banned work is a 400-page large-format anthology entitled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch fiber strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts (“Foundations of Contemporary History: A handbook on controversial…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
In a drawn-out case that has received considerable international press attention, a German court recently sentenced Günter Deckert, leader of a small nationalist political party, to two years' imprisonment for “denying the Holocaust.” A Karlsruhe regional court handed down the sentence on April 21, 1995, after Deckert had already been found guilty of “inciting racial…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1995
A German government ban on a revisionist book about the origins of the Second World War was lifted by the country's highest court, and then reimposed a few months later by a government censorship agency. In a legal struggle that's been going – on for 18 years, the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled on April…
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