Vol. 9 (1989)

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Volume Nine · Numbers 1 through 4 · 1989

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. 9 (1989)

Atrocities, Then and Now

“Most shocking barbarities begin to be reported as practiced … upon the wounded and prisoners … that fall into their hands,” read an editorial in the New York Times. “We are told of their slashing the throats of some from ear to ear; of their cutting off the heads of others and kicking them about…

My Role in the Zündel Trial

For the better part of five days in March 1988, I testified as an expert witness for the defense in the “Holocaust Trial” of German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zündel. It was one of the most challenging and interesting experiences of my life, as well as one of the most emotionally grueling. Zündel was on trial in…

Circuitous Suppression

“This group [the IHR] is more dangerous than the skinheads.”—Irv Rubin “Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.”—Nikita S. Khruschev “The Holocaust was not a sacred event. It was a historical event and it should be open to routine, historical criticism.”—Bradley Smith Mr. Irving Rubin of Los Angeles leads a rag-tag association…

The First Gassing at Auschwitz: Genesis of a Myth

Introduction The story of the Auschwitz gas chambers begins, notoriously, with the experimental gassing of approximately 850 individuals, which supposedly took place in the underground cells of Block 11 within the main camp on September 3, 1941. Danuta Czech in Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau (Calendar of Events in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau), describes…

Christianity, Truth and Fantasy: The Holocaust, Historical Revisionism and Christians Today

The early Christians were champions of the truth, not myth and fantasy. They spoke and wrote on the basis of solid evidence. Peter wrote: We didn't follow any clever myths when we told you about the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and His coming. No. With our own eyes we saw His majesty. God…

Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935

Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 by Rudy Koshar. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986, xviii + 395 pages, hardbound, $35, ISBN 0-8078-1694-9. By focussing on the “interpenetration of organizational and political life” as it took place in one German town from 1880-1935, Rudy Koshar sets out to provide…

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