Volume Fifteen · Number Three · May/June 1995
Between 1980 and 2002, The Journal of Historical Review was published by the Institute for Historical Review. It used to be the publishing flagship of the revisionist community, but it ceased to exist in 2002 for a number of reasons, mismanagement and lack of dedication being some of them. CODOH mirrors the old papers that were published in that journal.
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
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 William B. Ziff ∙ January 1, 1951
William B. Ziff was a publisher and ardent Zionist publicist. In his 1944 book, The Gentlemen Talk of Peace, he called on the Allied powers to impose on defeated Germany a draconian peace that would include the shutting down of all factories, the closing of all universities, and the deportation to the island of Madagascar…
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 James Joseph Martin, Helmut Krohmer, et al. ∙ May 1, 1995
Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War For decades Hollywood and the rest of the American media have routinely portrayed the “loyalist” side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in an admiring and sympathetic way. Good examples of such propaganda distortion of history are two widely praised wartime motion pictures. In “Casablanca,” the 1942 Warner Brothers…
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 ∙ May 1, 1995
An important German publishing center dedicated to the “truthful treatment of German and European history in this century” has been turning out an impressive series of books and booklets. In cooperation with noted German historians and publicists, the “Contemporary History Archives/ Cultural and Contemporary History” center (“Archiv der Zeit / Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte“) has set…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
Fifty years ago, on April 15, 1945, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The anniversary was widely remembered in official ceremonies and in newspaper articles that, as the following essay shows, distort the camp’s true history. Largely because of the circumstances of its liberation, the relatively unimportant German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen has become…
By James Joseph Martin ∙ January 1, 1977
James J. Martin graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1942 and received his M.A. (1945) and Ph.D. (1949) degrees in history from the University of Michigan. His teaching career has spanned 25 years and involved residence at educational institutions from coast to coast. Dr. Martin's books have included the two-volume classic, American Liberalism…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1995
America's image today of Benito Mussolini and his Italian Fascist regime is, to a considerable extent, a product of Second World War propaganda. The wartime image of the Duce (leader) as a clownish bully remains largely intact to this day. But this was not always so. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Mussolini and Fascist…
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