Landmark events of Third Reich history – excluding for the war and the Holocaust.
By Jörg Berger ∙ February 1, 2003
Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, University Press of Kansas, ISBN: 0700611789, 528 pp., $29.95 On December 2, 1996, The Daily Telegraph reported briefly about a research work by the American Bryan M. Rigg about “Jews in Wehrmacht Uniform”…
By André Chelain ∙ February 1, 2003
Was the German jet interceptor Messerschmidt 262 the first airplane in the world to break the sound barrier? The answer to this question is shaking up the aeronautical world, because it could easily knock several shining heroes of the US Air Force from their pedestals. As far as official historians are concerned, Charles Yeager was…
By Ingrid Weckert ∙ December 1, 2004
Historical writings to date dealing with matters related to the Third Reich paint a grim picture. This applies especially to writings that deal with the Jewish ethnic group. To this day there are still accounts of the Jewish emigration that depict it as some kind of clandestine operation – as if the Jews who wished…
By Robert H. Countess ∙ January 1, 2002
The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich. A History of the German National Railway. Volume 2: 19332-1945 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Hardcover. Index. 248 pages. US$45. This book and its earlier companion volume that covered the Reichsbahn from 1920-1932 has all the characteristics of being…
By Ernest Sommers ∙ August 1, 2000
The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor, Princeton UP, 1999 If I were to describe a society that was obsessed with carcinogens, which was militantly anti-smoking, which extolled the “organic” in everything from food to shampoos, that emphasized exercise and body culture and a “back to nature” ethos, you'd probably think that I had…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ January 6, 2000
Cesare Saletta, to whom I am indebted for the present translation, is a man of distinguished intellect. I thank him for his work and gladly accede to his wish that I bring forth a few clarifications on the lot that has befallen my analysis of the alleged diary of Anne Frank. This analysis, if I…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ August 24, 1999
As an alumnus of Williston Northampton School, one of our nation’s finer prepatory schools, I am struck by comparison of two course descriptions in its 1997-1998 course of studies brochure regarding “Russian History” and “Hitler and Nazi Germany.” The description for the semester course on Russian history reads: The transformation of Russia into the Union…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear AnswerMan, Do you believe the Holocaust, as it has become known was driven by Nazi Ideology or out of improvisation to the continuing expansion of the number of Jews in the concentration camps? Name Withheld AnswerMan Replies: It would be critical to first define the term “Holocaust.” We need to establish some common ground…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear Answerman: You will find my question combative, no doubt, but I'm curious, nevertheless: At the Wannssee Conference, the Jews were specifically referred to as “the enemy,” and plans were undertaken to remove them to the east. (Hm! China, maybe??) Anyway, here is my question: since Germany had declared war on the U.S. just a…
By AnswerMan ∙ January 1, 1998
Dear Answer Man: Herschel Grynszpan murdered a German diplomat in Paris in 1938. The response in Germany was the Night of Broken Glass. The Germans occupied Paris in 1940. This murderer was transferred to German custody. Although one might anticipate an immediate execution of the Jewish assassin of a German diplomat, this did not occur….
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