Vol. 8 (1988)

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Volume Eight · Numbers 1 through 4 · 1988

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. To see the table of contents of this volume’s issues, click on the respective issue number in the subcategory list below.

Vol. 8 (1988)

Fire Signal: The Reich “Crystal Night”

By Charles E. Weber ∙ December 1, 1988

A half century ago, on the night of 9-10 November 1938, destructive riots against Jews, their stores and synagogues broke out in many German cities. The windows of many Jewish stores were broken and as a result this night is often designated ironically as “Reichskristallnacht” (National Crystal Night), referring to the glittering broken glass. The…

George Bernard Shaw’s Letter to the Editor, May 1945

By Ronald Klett ∙ December 1, 1988

In Respect of the Irish Prime Minister's Condolences on the News of Adolf Hitler's Death When Shaw's pamphlet “Common Sense About the War” appeared in late 1914,[1] some three and one-half months after the war had started, it raised an angry tempest in Britannia. Although it only stated (what after the war was well-nigh universally…

The Strange Life of Ilya Ehrenburg

By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1988

Ilya Ehrenburg, the leading Soviet propagandist of the Second World War, was a contradictory figure. A recent article in the weekly Canadian Jewish News sheds new light on the life of this “man of a thousand masks.”[1] Ehrenburg was born in 1891 in Kiev to a non-religious Jewish family. In 1908 he fled Tsarist Russia…

New Documents Raise New Doubts as to Simon Wiesenthal’s War Years

By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ December 1, 1988

The Institute for Historical Review has recently received copies of a transcript of a sworn interrogation of Simon Wiesenthal, which was conducted in 1948. The copies, certified as “true and correct,” were obtained from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. To our knowledge this transcript has never been published or cited, in whole or in…

From the Editor

By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ October 1, 1988

Recently the New York Times made it official: Revisionism has come of age in America. American historian Deborah Lipstadt has been hired by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to study the Revisionists, of whom she fears “some of their positions could enter the mainstream.” We at the Institute for Historical Review are proud of the…

Hitler’s Declaration of War against the United States

By Adolf Hitler ∙ December 1, 1988

It has often been said that Hitler's greatest mistakes were his decisions to go to war against the Soviet Union and the United States. Whatever the truth may be, it's worth noting his own detailed justifications for these grave decisions. On Thursday afternoon, 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,…

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