While the rest of the world languished in the aftermath of the financial collapse of 1929, peacetime Germany under Hitler experienced dramatic growth as an economic power. These years also saw the stellar rise of German science and technology, when Germans developed the jet engine and the rocket engine; by the end of WWII, an inventory of German “firsts” would include rocket propelled aircraft, ballistic missiles, jet fighters, helicopters, stealth submarines, as well as plans for building space shuttles and stealth bombers; they had also invented nerve gases, discovered nuclear energy, developed coal gasification, invented artificial rubber, the video telephone, the amateur video camera, infrared-based night vision devices, tape recording, TV, live TV, color TV, cable TV, microwave ovens, the anti-baby pill, discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, built the first computer (Zuse, tube-based), and, last but not least, the electron microscope… A master race after all, perhaps? Hardly, but there is something special about this nation…
By Rudolf Jordan ∙ April 1, 1984
ThirdReich/EconomyIn German as “Das Gespenst der Arbeitslosigkeit: Wie es vor 50 Jahren verjagt wurde,” in “Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart,” Vol. 30. No. 3 (1982); The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 5, no. 1 (spring 1984), pp. 77-83Hitler, the Unemployed and AutarkySome Observations After 50 YearsRudolf JordanContrib: Ronald Klett, translation, comments In Germany and throughout…
By Mark Weber ∙ April 1, 1984
Jesse Owens, the Black track and field star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, died in 1980 at the age of 66. As so often during his lifetime, even this occasion was used by the major television networks and print media to spread slanderous falsehoods which have acquired wide acceptance…
By Keith Stimely ∙ April 1, 1984
Das Führerhauptquartier 1939-1945 [The Fuehrer Headquarters 1939-1945] compiled and edited by Gerhard Buck. Leoni am Starnberger See [D-8137]: Druffel Verlag, 1983, 176pp, DM 36.00, ISBN 3-8061-0830-7. Die große Zeit des deutschen Films 1933-1945 [The Great Age of German Films 1933-1945) edited by Michele Sakkara. Leoni am Starnberger See [D-8137]: Druffel Verlag, 1980, 184pp, DM 36.00,…
By Daniel W. Michaels ∙ September 1, 2005
Since World War II the history of the Third Reich has been written – for the most part – in English by the victors. Understandably, the picture so painted of German life and of the accomplishments of the people under National Socialism has not been flattering, with the exception perhaps of German scientific and technological…
By Germar Rudolf ∙ February 1, 2003
I was barely four years old when, in the summer of 1969, the first men landed on the moon in the wake of the Apollo Moon Project. I can recollect my elders’ excitement in my vicinity as they sat in front of their television sets. Since five subsequent landings were to follow in the years…
By G. M. ∙ November 1, 2003
Working V1 Rocket Engine of Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), San Francisco Re.: G. Rudolf, “The Moon Landing: Fact or Fiction,” TR, 1(1) (2003), pp. 75-81. Dear Editor: In The Revisionist #1 you have an article which includes a tidbit about V1 rockets: “Mockup of a German WWII V1 Rocket at the Space and Rocket Museum…
By Germar Rudolf ∙ May 1, 2003
Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point, Century/Random House, London 2001, 281 pp. hardcover, £17.99 An Introduction into the Topic For certain book reviews one must give an explanation and justification in order not to be misunderstood or put in a false light. The review of the book in question here is one of them,…
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 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…
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