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.

  • Slick Revisionists

    An article in the Newark Star-Ledger of 23 Oct. 1996 (p 15) treats Web sites that some consider objectionable. Among these are sites of Holocaust revisionists. Steven Some, Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, said “These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say with facts and figures.” That's…

  • Bookstore Bombed for carrying Revisionist title

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Greek bookstore, 'Nea Thesis' was attacked by armed hoodlums for openly selling the new Greek edition of Roger Garaudy's book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. On the afternoon of October 15, 1996 the 'Nea Thesis' bookstore was open for business as usual. There were…

  • A Fearful Symmetry

    Concluding the tenth chapter of his novel Moravagine, the French poet, Blaise Cendrars, describes the social ferment that pervaded Tsarist Russia on the eve of revolution: “Everything was thrown out of kilter: institutions, family traditions, the notion of honor. A frantic loosening of all ties, which was mistaken for mysticism, was at work in every…

  • 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…

  • Action Report no. 10

    Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #10 – July 5, 1996 Highlights of This Issue Opinion: “What, Us? An International Conspiracy?” How a Powerful Lobby Killed Irving's Goebbels Book Inside Story: The Life and Death of “Dr Goebbels”. “A Radical's Diary” A Last Letter from One of Our…

  • Faurisson Convicted of Questioning Gas Chambers

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 18, 1991 Professor Robert Faurisson was convicted of violating France's peculiar law against questioning “the existence of one or more crimes against humanity as defined by Article 6 of [the charter of] the International Military Tribunal, annexed to the London Agreement of August 8,…

  • Revisionist stripped of PhD

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Dr. Henri Roques has had his PhD ruled invalid by the University of Nantes, France. Roques was awarded his doctorate after presenting his dissertation which demonstrated that the written confessions of Kurt Gerstein, a former officer of the SS, were groundless. Roques also demonstrated how postwar…

  • Revisionist Historian Suffers Savage Beating

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell One of Europe's most prominent Holocaust revisionists, Dr. Robert Faurisson, was severely injured in a nearly fatal attack on September 16, 1989. After spraying a stinging gas into his face, temporarily blinding him, three assailants punched Dr. Faurisson to the ground and then repeatedly kicked him…

  • Free Speech Denied at Berkeley

    “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On October 13, at the University of California at Berkeley, the university chancellor cancelled a hall contract for British historian David Irving. It was claimed that the last minute cancellation was due to insufficient security resources. The organizers of Mr. Irving's lecture were forced to move…

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