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By Richard A. Widmann ∙ July 1, 2010
This April, a tragic plane crash took the lives of Poland’s president, Lech Kaczyński and 95 others. The plane was taking them to Katyn Forest where the dignitaries were planning to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a war-time atrocity in which approximately 22,000 Polish Prisoners of War were shot and buried in secret mass graves….
By Thomas Kues ∙ July 1, 2010
1. The Importance of the Search for the “Gassed” Jews According to mainstream historiography, during a period from December 1941 to the fall of 1944, millions of European Jews were murdered in homicidal gas chambers in six camps in Poland – the “combined concentration and extermination camps” of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek (Lublin) and the “pure…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ July 1, 2010
In Part 1 of this article, I gave a brief explanation of the history of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the number two man in the Nazi hierarchy after Hitler himself. For more than 20 years Goebbels maintained a detailed, personal diary that included reflections on all aspects of the war. Of special interest are…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ October 1, 2010
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews, by Peter Longerich, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK; 2010, 645 pp. If indeed, as USHMM Director Sara Bloomfield recently commented, the Holocaust is still a “relatively new field of academic study”—now 65 years after the fact—then it is presumably appropriate to find new ‘milestone’ works still…
By Lou A. Rollins ∙ July 1, 2010
Born in 1882, in Bladensburg, Maryland, John Thomas Flynn was raised in a Catholic family. Though he never attended college, Flynn graduated from Georgetown Law School in the early years of the 20th century. While attending law school, Flynn enjoyed listening to Congressional debates on nearby Capitol Hill. One such debate was the January 9,…
By Chip Smith ∙ July 1, 2010
by Melissa Katsoulis, Skyhorse Publishing, 328 pages, 2009. When I was a kid, I looked forward to visiting my father on weekends. He would pick me up after school on Fridays, and we would usually head over to Shoney’s or the local bowling alley where Dad would drink cup after cup of black coffee and…
By Jett Rucker ∙ October 1, 2010
Murray Rothbard’s works taken as a whole “present the equivalent of a unified field theory of the social sciences,” according to his biographer.[1] Born in 1926 in the Bronx to Russian-Jewish parents, he was a polymath of such broad erudition and accomplishment that his nominal classification as an “economist” captures a good deal less than…
By Michael K. Smith ∙ July 1, 2010
“The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of ‘important,’ of course, depends on one’s values.” —Howard Zinn, Failure To Quit This year marks the tenth anniversary of the David Irving – Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. Irving sued Lipstadt and Penguin Books for…
By Carlo Mattogno ∙ July 1, 2010
Robert Jan van Pelt was one of the first writers to mention the importance of Auschwitz in SS plans for the colonization of the Eastern occupied territories. In van Pelt’s book written in collaboration with Deborah Dwork, he stated:[1] The creation of Birkenau camp, which, by the end of 1942, had become a major center…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 1, 2010
The True Story of Andersonville Prison, by James Madison Page and M. J. Haley. Digital Scanning, Inc., Scituate, Mass. 1999 [1908] 248 pp. Rather like history in general, revisionism seems to be grouped into “waves” or “generations” that follow major wars. Thus, Harry Elmer Barnes led the first major wave of revisionism that seemed, at…
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