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By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 8, 2017
Abstract British historian Laurence Rees, the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC, has written a new “magnum opus”: The Holocaust: A New History. This review lays bare a few of the shortcomings of this old wine in new wineskins. Greetings dear readers, we’re back again with another episode of our loveable historian and award winner…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ September 11, 2017
This article was inspired by Prof. Faurisson’s article How Historian Gilbert Falsifies and Invents. Laurence Rees Laurence Rees is a well-known British historian, author of several books about World War II and National Socialism. But it was one book in particular that earned him the British Book Award for History Book: Auschwitz: The Nazis and…
By Seamus Moriarty ∙ August 30, 2017
Rémi Perron, Révisionnisme contre complotisme. Paris: Editions Plein Soleil, 2016. 152 pp., bibliography, index. This book can be purchased at the French publisher’s website François Fradin, Notes sur l’extermino-complotisme et le révisionnisme. Rome: La Sfinge, 2016. 134 pp., bibliography, index. This book can be purchased at the French publisher’s website Abstract Holocaust revisionism is increasingly…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ March 12, 2017
In 1933, Germany’s National Socialists found themselves in command of one of the world’s most advanced states with a pressing agenda to remove Jews from the command structure of its society, along with the upper strata of lucrative professions such as law, medicine and the media. With typically German methodicality, they set about crafting a…
By Michael A. Hoffman ∙ November 1, 2016
Denial. BBC Films. 109 minutes. This reviewer was expecting that it would be a tedious ordeal to sit through Denial, Hollywood’s attempted canonization of the obnoxious thought cop Deborah Lipstadt, which was supposed to also serve as the final confirmation of the libel trial in London in 2000 that saw historian David Irving’s reputation supposedly…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ September 5, 2016
Look Who’s Back! Constantin Film. 116 minutes He/it is the most-delicate subject in Germany, perhaps even the world, at least since the time he was alive (1889-1945). This is more-so in Germany, the country whose government he controlled in the last 12 years of his life, than anywhere else. In Germany, many (dozens?) are in…
By Kerry R. Bolton ∙ September 5, 2016
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police. Frank McDonough. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2015). Dr. Frank McDonough, professor of international history at Liverpool John Moores University, has written a book that will be of much interest to “historical revisionists.” Like Robert N. Proctor’s Nazi War on Cancer[1] it is a revisionist work,…
By Ralph Raico ∙ May 28, 2016
In 1783 the treaty ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America was signed in Paris. For their part the English proclaimed that, “His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations …” – there followed the rest…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ May 28, 2016
Spotlight. Open Road Films, 2015, 129 mins. The eternal enemy of truth—and history—is taboo. Taboo is the enveloping social process by which knowledge is contained by suppressing its expression. First among those subjected to taboo are the direct witnesses to the knowledge, and first among these are those who have suffered from it but survived…
By David Merlin ∙ August 11, 2016
Denial, a Holocaust Movie based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial, is to be released this September. History on Trial is Lipstadt’s account of her vendetta with author David Irving culminating in a defamation action. The action was tried in a London court in 2000 before Judge Charles Gray. Opportunity The release is an…
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