No. 5

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Volume Fifteen · Number Five · September/October 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.

Nationalist Sentiment Widespread, Growing in Former Soviet Union

These are trying days for Russia. The privations and sufferings endured by her people are all the more tragic because this is a potentially wealthy and powerful nation with a long and proud history. Contrary to the optimistic hopes and expectations of so many, the swift collapse of Communist Party rule in 1991-1992, and the…

French Court Fines Faurisson, Roques for Revisionist Book

For writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of mass killings in German gas chambers during World War II, two French revisionist scholars have been ordered by a Paris court to pay fines of $3,000 each. The offending 90-page book, written by Prof. Robert Faurisson, is entitled Reponse a Jean-Claude Pressac sur le problème…

Record and Mission of the Institute for Historical Review

Founded in 1978, the Institute for Historical Review (publisher of this Journal) is a not-for-profit research, educational and publishing center devoted to truth and accuracy in history. The IHR continues the tradition of historical revisionism pioneered by distinguished historians such as Harry Elmer Barnes, A. J. P. Taylor, Charles Tansill, Paul Rassinier and William H….

A German Takes His Life to Protest Defamation and Historical Lies

At about eight o'clock in the evening of Tuesday, April 25, 1995, a retired German chemist walked to a prominent memorial hall in downtown Munich, poured a flammable liquid over himself, and set himself on fire. Reinhold Elstner, 75 years old, took his life in this gruesome, painful fashion to protest against a half century…

The Holocaust Campaign: A Threat To Christianity

Eric D. Butler is founder and former national director of the Australian League of Rights (G.P.O Box 1052J, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia). Dedicated to conservative, free enterprise, and Christian principles, the League has played an active and influential role in Australia's public life since its founding in 1946. In addition to a weekly newsletter, On…

Hans Schmidt Arrested in Germany

Hans Schmidt Hans Schmidt, a US citizen and German-American civil rights activist, was arrested by German police on August 9, 1995, in Frankfurt, and has been held in prison ever since because of a remark he made in an open letter sent from the United States to an official in Germany. The 68-year-old German-born retired…

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