(Auto)biographic accounts of revisionist authors, usually related to their revisionist endeavors, leading to various kinds of persecutorial measures. This is not a list of authors of contributions posted on this site. For this see the “Authors” entry in the “Search the library” widget in the left sidebar.
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Gerhard Förster Gerhard Förster, a courageous Swiss publisher of revisionist books, died in his sleep during the night of September 22-23, 1998, in a home for the elderly in Baden, northern Switzerland. He was a co-defendant, with Jürgen Graf, in the “Holocaust denial” trial in Switzerland on July 16, 1998 – the most important legal…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
In a new book that proves he would rather be right than President, Patrick J. Buchanan has provoked the most heated public discussion about World War II history in many years. In A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (Regnery), the well-known journalist, commentator and presidential candidate eloquently pleads for a US foreign policy…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 15, 1999
Pedro Varela in the aftermath of the attack on the Europa bookstore, January 16, 1999. In a victory for free speech in Europe, a high court in Spain has suspended a lower court conviction of a Barcelona book dealer for distributing publications that dispute Holocaust extermination claims. On November 16, 1998, a Barcelona criminal court…
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
A Spanish court has sentenced Pedro Varela, a Barcelona book dealer, to five years imprisonment for incitement to racial hatred and for denying or justifying genocide. The sentence, handed down on November 16, 1998, is Spains first conviction for Holocaust denial. It is based on the countrys 1995 anti-genocide and anti-discrimination law, which effectively creates…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Support for historical revisionism has traditionally been strong in northern Europe. Orders for books and tapes arrive regularly at the IHR from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland – countries where most educated people understand English. And unlike citizens of France, Germany and a few other countries, Scandinavians still enjoy the freedom to express skeptical views…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Auschwitz State Museum authorities have banned a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television team and British historian David Irving from visiting the site of the wartime German concentration camp. In a July 15 letter to Irving, Museum official Krystyna Oleksy wrote: “We must advise you that permission will not be given for you to have any…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ October 1, 1998
Prosecutor Threatens Defense Witness A court in Switzerland has punished 47-year-old teacher Jürgen Graf and 78-year-old retired engineer Gerhard Förster with fines and prison terms for writing or publishing allegedly anti-Jewish books. A district court in the northern Swiss town of Baden on July 21 sentenced Graf, a leading Holocaust revisionist, to 15 months imprisonment…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Since October 1997, German historian Udo Walendy has been serving a prison sentence for publishing dissident historical writings on the Holocaust issue. Two German courts have found him guilty of the crime of “popular incitement” for items that had appeared in several issues of the “Historical Facts” booklet series he edits and publishes. On May…
By Mark Weber ∙ June 1, 1998
A major advance for historical revisionism in Europe is the appearance of a new German-language scholarly journal, Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung. Now in its second year of publication, this “Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Research” offers first-rate writing and editing, and a high level of scholarship, presented in an attractively laid out and well-illustrated large-size…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
The Execution Protocol: Inside America’s Capital Punishment Industry, by Stephen Trombley. Hardcover. New York: Crown, 1992. (Softcover. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.) 342 pages. Photographs. Index. When French professor Robert Faurisson and other revisionist skeptics first began asking tough questions about how, precisely, the infamous gas chambers at Auschwitz were built and operated, defenders of…
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