There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Noam Chomsky ∙ April 1, 1986
The following essay first appeared in the Camera, Boulder, Colorado, in September, 1985. It is a rejoinder to a reply by Henry Smokier to a nationally syndicated article by Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff protesting the cancellation of a Cornell Medical School commencement speech by Professor Chomsky. The cancellation was the work of Zionists fearful…
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…
By Peter H. Peel ∙ December 1, 1986
A note on the title: Liberal-Establishment historians have an all too effective propaganda device to promote approved ideologies. They invent labels which, in due course, are thoughtlessly parroted and tend to set the desired concepts in concrete, obviating any further need for argument. Thus the raids carried out by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer on…
By Henri Roques ∙ April 1, 1988
On February 21, 1979, the newspaper Le Monde, the Paris daily, published a text titled “The Hitler Policy of Extermination A Declaration by Historians.” This declaration, whose style was intended to be solemn and whose conclusions were meant to be irrefutable, had been drafted by two persons: Léon Poliakov, former director of research at the…
By Robert H. Countess ∙ July 1, 1988
An American in Exile: The Story of Arthur Rudolph, by Thomas Franklin, Huntsville, Alabama: Christopher Kaylor Company, 1987. 366 pages, $16.95, Hb., ISBN 0-916039-04-8. In the spring of 1986 I had the pleasure of interviewing several men who played key roles in the German rocket development program and in the subsequent American space program, which…
By Mark Weber ∙ April 1, 1985
During the Second World War, George Orwell wrote a weekly radio political commentary, designed to counter German and Japanese propaganda in India, that was broadcast over the BBC overseas service. His wartime work for the BBC was a major inspiration for his monumental novel, 1984. Very few readers of 1984 know, for example, that Orwell's…
By Willis A Carto ∙ December 1, 1984
This special issue of The Journal of Historical Review includes issues Two, Three and Four of Volume Five, 1984. There is a reason for this. At approximately midnight on the Fourth of July last, the business office and warehouse of the publisher were burned to the ground by arson. Lost in the gutted ruins were…
By Robert J. Chapman ∙ July 1, 1985
It has been often said that the first casualty of war is truth. Belligerents have always had their own versions of history, particularly with regard to responsibility for wars. And yet certain basic facts and events have not been totally suppressed, if only due to the lack of total media technology and control. Roman statesmen…
By Hellmut Diwald ∙ March 1, 1980
Editor’s Note The following is taken from the Austrian student periodical Die Aula (No. 3, 1980, pp. 9–10), A-8010 Graz, Merangasse 13, Austria. Professor Hellmut Diwald, distinguished professor of history at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, West Germany, became a figure of some considerable controversy in academic and press circles with the publication in 1978…
By John T. Bennett ∙ April 1, 1985
“Who controls the past controls the future.Who controls the present controls the past”– O'Brien in 1984 “Every government is run by liarsand nothing they say should be believed.”– I. F. Stone Many of the predictions made by George Orwell in his book 1984 in relation to “Big Brother” surveillance, corruption of language and control of…
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