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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 Robert Faurisson ∙ June 1, 1998
On April 2, 1998, after the longest trial in all of French history, Maurice Papon, aged 87, was found guilty of complicity in “crimes against humanity,” and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment as well as ten years’ privation of his civic, civil, and family rights. He was also stripped of all his decorations, particularly that…
By aaargh ∙ June 1, 1998
Everybody knows revisionism is an abomination. But it not only exists – it persists. Moral censure and penal convictions, vigilance committees, even the laws of the state – nothing works. For the past 20 years, revisionism has not stopped growing. A recent poll shows that 30 percent of the people in France are ready to…
By Mark Weber ∙ June 1, 1998
The Institute for Historical Review now has its own Internet web site, www.ihr.org, which offers an impressive selection of material from the Institute for Historical Review, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. It also includes a listing of every item that has ever appeared in this Journal, enabling callers to quickly search for…
By Mark Twain ∙ September 1, 1870
The tendency to idealize the Indian is hardly new in American history. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), a master debunker of cant and hokum, voiced his contempt for worshipful depictions of America’s aboriginal inhabitants in the following essay, which originally appeared in the September 1870 issue of The Galaxy. Mark Twain In books he is tall…
By Kevin Beary ∙ June 1, 1998
Kevin Beary is a teacher who writes from his home in New York. For decades now, African American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology forthe American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed for a legacy of…
By Antony Charles ∙ June 1, 1998
Antony Charles is the pen name of an educator and writer who holds both a master’s and a doctoral degree in history. He has taught history and is the author of several books. A resident of North Carolina, he currently works for a government agency. Not only during his lifetime, but also in the decades…
By Shawn L. Twing ∙ June 1, 1997
Shawn L. Twing is news editor of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). This review is reprinted from the June-July 1997 issue of The Washington Repor. Jewish Power, by J. J. Goldberg, is an insider's eye-opening and often startlingly frank discussion of Jewish influence in American politics, and an…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
???. In France, a lively new revisionist history periodical L'Autre Histoire (“The Other History” or “Alternative History”) is making a mark. Now in its third year of publication, a typical issue of this attractively laid out, richly illustrated, and intelligently written magazine-format periodical is 48 pages in length. Editor-publisher is Trystan Mordrel. The June 1997…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
One of the most persistent and malicious accusations leveled against the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades is the charge that Pope Pius XII and the Vatican acquiesced in the slaughter of millions of Jews during the Second World War by failing explicitly to condemn the killings. (On this subject, see: Mary Ball Martinez, “Pope…
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