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Mixed Signals From Spielberg?

Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg Let's begin with what this latest entry in the Spielbergian canon is not: it is not a “holocaust” or gas chamber flick. Saving Private Ryan is about combat on the Western front during World War Two and the honor and compassion of the U.S. government; overt Jewish themes…

Peter Sagal’s “Denial”

Peter Sagal's play Denial, being performed during April and May 1998 in Highland Park, Illinois, centers on Bernard Cooper, an engineering professor (not electrical) who has written a Holocaust revisionist book. The Chicago Tribune (23 April 1998, sec. 5, p. 4), in a review of the play said it is “based in part on Holocaust…

The Confessions of Kurt Gerstein

The Confessions of Kurt Gerstein, by Henri Roques, Paperback (June 1989), Inst for Historical Review; ISBN: 0939484277; Our Price: $7.50. Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks… Amazon.com Sales Rank: 332,621 [email protected]From Michael Mills,Canberra, Australia,March 31, 1998 A thorough analysis of a key document of World War 2 This book was originally a doctoral…

The Hitler of History

The Hitler of History, by John Lukacs. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1997. xiv + 282 pages. $26.00. Lukacs emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1946 and has taught at various universities. He now lives in Pennsylvania. Lukacs discusses and evaluates many biographical works on Hitler and suggests that there might be a…

Death Dealer

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, by Rudolf Höss. Steven Paskuly, ed., Andrew Pollinger, trans., with a foreword by Primo Levi. Da Capo Press, New York. 1996. Softcover. 390 pages. Notes. $15.95. This volume of the memoirs of Rudolf Höss is flawed by the editor's refusal to objectively present the material….

The Holocaust in Microcosm

A recent issue of TV Guide (Feb 22, 1997) featured a review of the film, Schindler's List by well-known movie reviewer, Gene Siskel. Siskel's article, entitled, Schindler's List: Cut, but no Commercials is a fine example on a small scale, of how the mystification surrounding the Holocaust story breeds confusion and self-delusion among adepts and…

Shtetl’s Romaniuk Visits Greenpoint

In Greenpoint, N.Y., on June 7, 1996, Zbigniew Romaniuk was the main speaker in a forum addressing issues raised by the PBS production of Shtetl. Very interesting facts were brought to light about the production. Within the discussion there was also presented an historical overview of Jewish anti-Polonism, but that topic is beyond the scope…

Florent Brayard and the Liars

Florent Brayard, Comment l'idée vint à M. Rassinier. Naissance du révisionnisme. Préface by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Paris, Fayard, 1996, 464 p., ISBN : 2-213-59507-0, 160 F ttc. Mr. Brayard is a lucky student. After his Master's degree dissertation at the University of Nancy II, he was awarded a prize at the School of Advanced Studies in…

Yaffa Eliach – “one of America’s most respected Holocaust scholars”

Below is our response to the US News & World Report (USN&WR) article of July 8, 1996 and The New York Times (NYT) autobiographical article by Yaffa Eliach of August 6, 1996. Only the USN&WR article is copied below, the NYT is very long, current and easily available to anyone interested. USN&WR in its July…

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