(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 Ernest Sommers ∙ August 1, 2000
As many revisionists expected, the British historian David Irving failed in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt. In his complaint, Irving had accused Lipstadt of libeling him in her book, Denying the Holocaust in which she characterized Irving as a “Hitler apologist” who distorted, manipulated, and falsified documents, as an anti-Semite who…
By George Brewer ∙ August 1, 2000
Not to anyone’s great surprise, David Irving lost his libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin books. Judge Gray, newly appointed to the bench in England, ruled that, although Lipstadt did libel Irving in her book “Denying the Holocaust”, these libels could not be considered as damaging Irving’s reputation, because Irving had no reputation to…
By Ernest Sommers ∙ August 1, 2000
About twenty years ago, a city supervisor in the city of San Francisco went berserk and murdered the mayor of the city, along with another supervisor, who just happened to be the only openly gay man on the city council. At his defense, the killer tried to justify his actions by claiming diminished mental capacity,…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ January 1, 2000
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., a film by Errol Morris. With its premier at the Toronto Film Festival in 1999, presaged by a degree of consternation and controversy,[1] Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., is now circulating among various independent film houses. While the…
By CODOH ∙ April 10, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Swiss court on Monday gave a one-year prison sentence to a 79 year old Holocaust revisionist for having argued that the Nazis did not use gas chambers for mass murder and for having said that the extermination of 6 million Jews was “impossible.” Although nothing…
By CODOH ∙ April 5, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Dariusz Ratajczak, a Polish history professor was fired by his university. In addition, he was banned from teaching elsewhere for writing and publishing the book Dangerous Themes. This book asserts that Nazi Germany did not have a comprehensive plan for exterminating Jews. Although this view is…
By CODOH ∙ April 3, 2000
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The Swiss government is trying a 79 year old man for stating that he no longer believes in the lurid tales of the Nazi gas chambers of the Second World War. Gaston-Armand Amaudruz is charged with racial discrimination. The trial is in progress at the Lausanne…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ March 1, 2000
An important libel suit is under way in London. David Irving, the controversial British historian of World War II, is suing an American scholar, Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University, for calling him “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial.” Since she wrote this in a 1993 book Denying The Holocaust, Irving says, his…
By Douglas Collins ∙ March 7, 2000
How the great Irving-Lipstadt libel trial in London will turn out I don't know. Neither does anyone else. But one thing is certain. Professional Holocausters have been given a black eye. They have been forced to debate what they have always refused to debate, namely, whether their version of the “Holocaust” is true. As could…
By CODOH ∙ July 25, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An overflow crowd packed a July 25 hearing of the British Columbia Press Council to back a North Shore News columnist in a hearing into a complaint by retired Simon Fraser University professor Lionel Kenner about five columns Collins wrote in 1993 and 1994. (It is…
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