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From the Editor

This Fall 1991 issue of The Journal of Historical Review begins with two more nails in the coffin of what Editorial Advisory Committee member Dr. Wilhelm Stäglich has called the “Auschwitz myth.” The first, Brian Renk's expos e of what has seemed to a number of Exterminationists as the long-sought “smoking gun” (“dusty document” would…

Letters

Damming Documentary Evidence To the Editor: You were good enough to send me the Winter 1990­91 issue of your Journal of Historical Review, which contains a piece by Mr. David Irving under the title “Battleship Auschwitz.” Readers of his “remarks presented to the Tenth International Revisionist Conference” might conclude that there is no tangible and…

Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945

Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945, by Shmuel Almog. Translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mendel. Oxford, New York, et al: Pergamon Press, 1990, 160 pp., illustrated, $56.00; ISBN 0-08-037254-6 Hardcover; ISBN 0-08-037774-2 Paperback. The addition of “Holocaust Studies” to school curriculum has emerged as a growth industry in American education. Courses are being…

Revisionism and Censorship Down Under

George Orwell said that “anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself being silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.” J.S. Mill said that “unmeasured vituperation, employed on the side of prevailing opinion, deters people from expressing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who express them.”…

Major Poullada’s final defense plea in the Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp case

Introduction by Mark Weber Published here for the first time is the informative and thought-provoking final defense plea in the postwar Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp case. U.S. Army Major Leon B. Poullada, chief defense counsel, made this presentation on December 23, 1947, to the seven American Army officers who served as judges. The text has been…

Neither Trace nor Proof

The French author Jean-Claude Pressac has written a monumental work – 564 pages in large format, with hundreds of photographs, plans, sketches, drawings and reproduced documents on the creation, utilization and destruction of seven Auschwitz-Birkenau installations which supposedly once housed execution gas chambers. J.-C. Pressac carried out an exhaustive on-site investigation. During the course of…

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