Coming to Terms with the Past

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.

The Issue of Motivation in Different Views of the Holocaust

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…

In the Name of the Holocaust

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…

Making Room for the Revisionists

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…

Young Germans Resist ‘Holocaust Education’

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…

Attention! Fascism in the Furniture Store!

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…

Mastering Germany’s Difficult Past

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,…

Overcoming Germany’s Burdensome Past: The Heritage of Europe’s “Revolutionary Conservative Movement”

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 –…

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