Revisionist Personalities

(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.

Thies Christophersen

Thies Christophersen, 1918-1997 Thies Christophersen – pioneer revisionist writer and courageous fighter for truth in history – died February 13, 1997, at Molfsee, Kiel, in north Germany. He was 79. In a memoir first published in Germany in 1973, he related his wartime experiences as a German army officer in the Auschwitz camp complex. “During…

French Study of Israel’s ‘Founding Myths’ Provokes Furious Attack

Even as independent thinking is being suppressed in “politically correct” America, and erased in today’s national-masochist Germany, happily some remnants of traditional Gallic nonconformism are still alive in France. If a Frenchman asks you the rhetorical question “Do you think I am a fool?,” it means he is irritated by your naive assumption that he…

On the Front Line for Free Speech and Open Historical Inquiry

The Press Council Decision [From the North Shore News, Oct. 22, 1995] Here's a shot from the battle front and the British Columbia Press Council decision that “in part” upholds the complaints made by my Jewish friend Lionel Kenner concerning a column I wrote two years ago. The piece was headed “The Story Keeps Changing,”…

A Belgian Foundation Battles for Free Speech

For some years now, one of Europe's most important revisionist publishing centers has been the Foundation for Free Historical Research, or Vrij Historish Onderzoek (VHO). From the Flemish region of Belgium, the VHO publishes and distributes a range of revisionist materials in Dutch, French, German and English. Through the efforts above all of Siegfried Verbeke,…

A New Threat to Freedom of Speech: Canadian Jewish Congress Threatens Journalist for Holocaust Heresy

Few North American writers have come under more sustained attack for outspoken and often unorthodox views than Doug Collins, an acclaimed British-born Canadian author and journalist who writes a popular column for the North Shore News of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Every journalist understands that criticism comes with the job. But the relentless campaign to…

Free Speech Under Attack

Doug Collins served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. An award-winning journalist, he has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. His presentation at the Tenth IHR Conference was published in the Fall 1991 Journal….

French Court Fines Faurisson, Roques for “Holocaust Denial” Book

Concluding a dramatic trial that included stunning testimony by a leading Holocaust researcher, a Paris court in June ordered two French revisionists to pay fines of $3,000 each for writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of Second World War mass killings in German gas chambers. (A brief report on this case appeared in…

Charges Dropped Against Engineer for Scholarly Report Disputing Gassing Claims

In Austria, as in other European countries, the struggle for freedom of expression and historical truth continues – with victories as well as setbacks. In March 1992, a prominent Austrian engineer made headlines because he had written a detailed essay, “Holocaust: Belief and Facts,” that rejects key elements of the Holocaust gas chamber story. In…

Record and Mission of the Institute for Historical Review

Founded in 1978, the Institute for Historical Review (publisher of this Journal) is a not-for-profit research, educational and publishing center devoted to truth and accuracy in history. The IHR continues the tradition of historical revisionism pioneered by distinguished historians such as Harry Elmer Barnes, A. J. P. Taylor, Charles Tansill, Paul Rassinier and William H….

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