Confronted with a landslide of accusations of unfathomable crimes (allegedly) committed by their nation during World War II, the Germans have had a hard time coming to terms with this 12 year period of their history. As a matter of fact, the German nation has become somewhat obsessed with this self-denigrating, autistic navel gazing, as a consequence of which its self-esteem has suffered considerably. Papers listed in this category deal with this aspect of the consequences of WWII.
By Jett Rucker ∙ May 14, 2014
As a founder and the namesake of the anti-Zionist Website Mondoweiss, Philip Weiss has become a global icon of Jewish conscience regarding the depredation of Palestine and Palestinians by the colonialist theocracy called Israel. As an observant Jew in his own right, Weiss has since 2006 occupied and well served an enterprise that exemplifies Jewish…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 13, 2014
Ingrid Rimland Zündel re-counts an experience from her early days as a revisionist as an interviewee on a television program called The Learning Channel. “My stunningly beautiful anchor leaned forward, pulled her face into the ugliest visage of hatred I have ever had the displeasure to see, and literally hissed at me: ‘Are you a…
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ July 1, 2001
Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today by Angelo Codevilla. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000. Hardcover. $27. 263pp. Index. Daniel W. Michaels is a Columbia University graduate (Phi Beta Kappa, 1954), and a former Fulbright exchange student to Germany (1957). He is retired from the US Department…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ May 1, 2001
The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Hardcover. 373 pages. $27.00. Index, source references. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman Finkelstein. London, New York: Verso, 2000. Hardcover. 150 pages. Index. Samuel Crowell is the pen name of an American writer who describes…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 15, 2001
No country, with the possible exception of the United States, has been so massively subjected to “Holocaustomania” as Germany. The campaign includes mandatory “Holocaust education” in schools, extensive treatment on television and in newspapers and magazines, “Holocaust”-theme motion pictures, and formal government ceremonies and solemn pronouncements by public figures. But this costly, seemingly endless effort…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 2000
Ernst Nolte For decades Ernst Nolte has been one of Germany’s best known historians, as well as one of the most reviled. His numerous books include “The Germans and Their Past,” “The European Civil War,” and Streitpunkte (or “Points of Contention,” reviewed in the Jan.-Feb. 1994 Journal). In the United States his best known work…
By Jaroslaw Zadencki ∙ November 1, 1997
Jaroslaw Zadencki holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Krakow. He has been a contributor to several Polish periodicals. This essay, a translation and adaptation from the original Polish, first appeared in issue No. 1(30), 1997, of the journal Stanczyk, ul. St. Pietaka 9, 51-140 Wroclaw, Poland. One of the great social-cultural plagues…
By Armin Mohler ∙ September 1, 1994
Following the aftermath of the cataclysmic defeat of Germany and her Axis partners in the Second World War, exhausted Europe came under the hegemony of the victorious Allied powers – above all the United States and Soviet Russia. Understandably, the social-political systems of the vanquished regimes – and especially that of Hitler's Third Reich –…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1994
Der Nasenring: Im Dickicht der Vergangenbeitsbewältigung (“The Nose Ring: In the Thicket of Mastering the Past”), by Armin Mohler. Essen: Heitz & Höffkes, 1989. (Revised and expanded edition published in 1991 by Verlag Langen Müller, Munich.) Softcover. 256 pages. Index. ISBN: 3-926650-26-5. Armin Mohler, the Swiss-born author who has lived for many years in Germany,…
By Andrew Gray ∙ July 1, 1994
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, by George P. Shultz. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Hardcover. 1184 pages. Photographs. Index. $30.00. ISBN 0-684-19325-6. A hefty tome, but after all, George Shultz is an ex-professor, and obviously does not wish to be outdone by Dr. Kissinger. Buried in this long and discursive text, however,…
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