THE HOLOCAUST'S DENIERS
The triumph of the anti-semitic vipers |
| Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites: they are very much alive, alike and at work. One could think they are only a bunch of Extremists lost in our big democracies but they are not. They are many, everywhere and well organized in spite of all the persecutions and trials they have been submitted to since the last 20 years. Here is a quick way to know who they are, what they stand for and who support them. |
It seems that all started a few years after WW2 with a
Frenchman called Paul Rassinier (picture to the right).
Rassinier who was a "pacifist resistant" was deported
by the Nazis to Buchenwald. After his return he was
honored with the highest French decorations and was
elected to the National Assembly as a Socialist (SFIO).
But he was a liar and lied about his resistance, his role
and even about the duration of his captivity. In the late
40s, he suddenly disagreed with the official reports
about the conditions of life in the concentration camps
and the Holocaust and started publishing books that
pretended to set the records straight. His most
important writings — La Passage de la ligne (1949), Le
Mensonge d'Ulysse (1950), Ulysse trahi par les siens,
and Le Drame des Juifs européens, were published in
English under the name "The Holocaust Story and
The Lies of Ulysses."
Frenchman called Paul Rassinier (picture to the right).
Rassinier who was a "pacifist resistant" was deported
by the Nazis to Buchenwald. After his return he was
honored with the highest French decorations and was
elected to the National Assembly as a Socialist (SFIO).
But he was a liar and lied about his resistance, his role
and even about the duration of his captivity. In the late
40s, he suddenly disagreed with the official reports
about the conditions of life in the concentration camps
and the Holocaust and started publishing books that
pretended to set the records straight. His most
important writings — La Passage de la ligne (1949), Le
Mensonge d'Ulysse (1950), Ulysse trahi par les siens,
and Le Drame des Juifs européens, were published in
English under the name "The Holocaust Story and
The Lies of Ulysses."
| Frenchman Paul Rassinier (1906-1967) is the generally acknowledged founder of scholarly Holocaust revisionism. During the Second World War, he allegedly co-founded the "Libé-Nord" underground Resistance organization. He was arrested for "pacifist resistance" by the Gestapo in October 1943 and deported to Germany, where he was held prisoner until the end of the war in Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps. |
Rassinier became increasingly skeptical with the reports of systematic killings of Jews in gas
chambers. Eventually he sustained that the number of Jews who perished in Europe during the
war years could not have been more than about 1.6 million. A lot of people were impressed by
Rassinier's views for whatever reasons : among them the American Holocaust denier historian 1)
Harry Elmer Barnes who arranged for the translation of four of his books, 2) the French
scholar Robert Faurisson (left) who took over the lead after Rassinier's death in 1967 and 3)
Princeton historian Arno J. Mayer who does not question either gas chambers or a Nazi
extermination policy, but still warns that "sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once
rare and unreliable." Rassinier can rightly be regarded as the "father of the Holocaust
revisionism".
In her book "Denying the Holocaust", American scholar Deborah Lipstadt attacked Rassinier
for "fabricated data, misquoted, and used quotations out of context." It is for the same reasons
that Revisionist David Irving lost some years later his trial against Mrs Lipstadt in a British Court.
After reading the works of fellow Frenchmen Paul Rassinier and Maurice Bardèche, Robert
Faurisson began to question the Holocaust. Over the years Faurisson claims to have studied
the Holocaust extensively, and in the late 1970s he said that he came to the conclusion that it was
a hoax. He has been very active during the 70s and the 80s and was eventually removed from
his University chair for "Holocaust denial" under the terms of a French Law adopted in the 90s.
Today although quite old (age : 78) he stills fights for his views and does not hesitate to take the
stand in international debates denying the Holocaust. He recently took part in the Tehran
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust in December 2006
that was sponsored by the government of Iran. He repeated his theories about gas chambers and
said that in the past 32 years he had been waiting for someone to show him one of those
chambers.
Unfortunately Mr Faurisson has often be violently attacked for his views, sometimes physically by
Extreme Right Zionist Movements, which should not happen. His influence seems however to be
waning as his writings have been criticized and attacked by most serious international historians,
except by American scholar Noam Chomsky who recently again took his defence. However being
defended by Chomsky is in my opinion the best way to attend prematurely the burial of his own
ideas in sofar as Chomsky is, as Berkeley economist Brad DeLong wrote on his own weblog a
couple of years ago, "an intellectual totalitarian" who does not convince anymore a lot of
people. Mr. Faurisson does not hesitate to talk of the "imposture" of the 'holocaust."
The idea of a hoax was taken back in the 70s by Arthur Butz (left), an American associate
professor of electrical engineering who pauses as Professor, who published 20 years ago
"The Hoax of the XXth Century", a very boring work that accumulates technical details and
demonstrations which I read in 2003 without being convinced at all. Mr Butz who purports to be
an historian seems to me to be more interested in denouncing Jews as liars than anything else.
His main point is that perhaps as many as 6,000 Jews died in concentration camps, but they died
as a result of typhus epidemics and not from intentional gassing in gas chambers which Butz
says is mere fabrication without any basis or evidence to support it.
The most prominent critics of the claims of Holocaust revisionists, Deborah Lipstadt, Pierre
Vidal-Naquet, and Michael Shermer, have publicly stated they oppose laws that criminalize
revisionism. But still revisionits are prosecuted and persecuted, sometimes abusively. The most
recent example was offered by the incarceration in Austria in 2006 of British Holocaust denier
David Irving who was released unrepentant from jail a few days before Christmas. Irving denied
that Hitler was aware or ordered the Holocaust and stated that the number of Jews killed by the
Nazis was inflated. The common point to all those authors is their anti-semitism which they denied
vehemently. But under the veneer of history -or should it be called pseudo-history- one can
detect easily the venomous trace of anti-semitism. Every time I have read the Revisionist
literature I fell into the abyss of Jewish bashing and its corollaries : hatred, lack of intelligence,
indifference to witnesses' testimonials, amalgamation of facts in the goal to distort the reality and
the evidence. It is sometimes barely bearable and in many occasions it is all together odious.
chambers. Eventually he sustained that the number of Jews who perished in Europe during the
war years could not have been more than about 1.6 million. A lot of people were impressed by
Rassinier's views for whatever reasons : among them the American Holocaust denier historian 1)
Harry Elmer Barnes who arranged for the translation of four of his books, 2) the French
scholar Robert Faurisson (left) who took over the lead after Rassinier's death in 1967 and 3)
Princeton historian Arno J. Mayer who does not question either gas chambers or a Nazi
extermination policy, but still warns that "sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once
rare and unreliable." Rassinier can rightly be regarded as the "father of the Holocaust
revisionism".
In her book "Denying the Holocaust", American scholar Deborah Lipstadt attacked Rassinier
for "fabricated data, misquoted, and used quotations out of context." It is for the same reasons
that Revisionist David Irving lost some years later his trial against Mrs Lipstadt in a British Court.
After reading the works of fellow Frenchmen Paul Rassinier and Maurice Bardèche, Robert
Faurisson began to question the Holocaust. Over the years Faurisson claims to have studied
the Holocaust extensively, and in the late 1970s he said that he came to the conclusion that it was
a hoax. He has been very active during the 70s and the 80s and was eventually removed from
his University chair for "Holocaust denial" under the terms of a French Law adopted in the 90s.
Today although quite old (age : 78) he stills fights for his views and does not hesitate to take the
stand in international debates denying the Holocaust. He recently took part in the Tehran
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust in December 2006
that was sponsored by the government of Iran. He repeated his theories about gas chambers and
said that in the past 32 years he had been waiting for someone to show him one of those
chambers.
Unfortunately Mr Faurisson has often be violently attacked for his views, sometimes physically by
Extreme Right Zionist Movements, which should not happen. His influence seems however to be
waning as his writings have been criticized and attacked by most serious international historians,
except by American scholar Noam Chomsky who recently again took his defence. However being
defended by Chomsky is in my opinion the best way to attend prematurely the burial of his own
ideas in sofar as Chomsky is, as Berkeley economist Brad DeLong wrote on his own weblog a
couple of years ago, "an intellectual totalitarian" who does not convince anymore a lot of
people. Mr. Faurisson does not hesitate to talk of the "imposture" of the 'holocaust."
The idea of a hoax was taken back in the 70s by Arthur Butz (left), an American associate
professor of electrical engineering who pauses as Professor, who published 20 years ago
"The Hoax of the XXth Century", a very boring work that accumulates technical details and
demonstrations which I read in 2003 without being convinced at all. Mr Butz who purports to be
an historian seems to me to be more interested in denouncing Jews as liars than anything else.
His main point is that perhaps as many as 6,000 Jews died in concentration camps, but they died
as a result of typhus epidemics and not from intentional gassing in gas chambers which Butz
says is mere fabrication without any basis or evidence to support it.
The most prominent critics of the claims of Holocaust revisionists, Deborah Lipstadt, Pierre
Vidal-Naquet, and Michael Shermer, have publicly stated they oppose laws that criminalize
revisionism. But still revisionits are prosecuted and persecuted, sometimes abusively. The most
recent example was offered by the incarceration in Austria in 2006 of British Holocaust denier
David Irving who was released unrepentant from jail a few days before Christmas. Irving denied
that Hitler was aware or ordered the Holocaust and stated that the number of Jews killed by the
Nazis was inflated. The common point to all those authors is their anti-semitism which they denied
vehemently. But under the veneer of history -or should it be called pseudo-history- one can
detect easily the venomous trace of anti-semitism. Every time I have read the Revisionist
literature I fell into the abyss of Jewish bashing and its corollaries : hatred, lack of intelligence,
indifference to witnesses' testimonials, amalgamation of facts in the goal to distort the reality and
the evidence. It is sometimes barely bearable and in many occasions it is all together odious.
| Robert Faurisson born in 1929 is the typical Holocaust denier. He pretends like Irving to be an historian and to have extensively made such and such research. A lot of his writings are out of context, misquoted or totally made up. Faurisson belongs to this group of people whose anti-semitism and anti-communism triggered a vocation of Extreme Right historian. They say that they are in search of the real truth but in doing so they are fighting against the whole world and notably the established historians whom they hate and despise. In this process they always find some support like they did recently with the Iranians. The whole conference was boycotted by the Western medias and it is a very good thing. Revisionists do not need any publicity for their stupid views. |
| Arthur Butz, as a chemistry graduate student, did a forensic analysis of the walls of the alleged gas chambers, didn't find the cyanide residues that ought to have been there and concluded they weren't gas chambers. Brilliant !! |
Another advocate of the deniers is the Canadian resident but German citizen, Ernst
Zündel probably the most outspoken of Holocaust revisionism. He is also the author of
UFO's: Nazi Secret Weapons?, a rather silly piece of literature which has sold out seven
underground printings. The book argued that what are usually described as flying saucers
from outer space are actually Nazi secret weapons, still being launched from a hole in the
ice in Antarctica. The guy is no genius but he pauses as a "prisoner of conscience", a title
claimed by his wife in the Website she maintains to his actions. It seems actually that the
unconditional love of Zundel for his country put him on the track of "dedicating his life to
clearing Germany of the blood libel of the Holocaust". Some of his supporters do not fear
to compare him without any sense of ridicule to a "modern-day Galileo."(sic).
In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which
issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really
Die?, both prominent documents of the Holocaust denial movement. For many years, his
publishing house shipped to Germany thousands of brochures and samizdats whose
contents were outrageously neo-nazi. Since then Zündel underwent several trials and
arrests but was released until he was finally arrested by the US police in 2003 for violating
that country's immigration rules, specifically visa waiver overstay. He was deported to
Canada and after lenghty Court procedures he was eventually deported to Germany
where he was incarcerated in 2005. German prosecutors charged Zündel on July 19,
2005, with fourteen counts of inciting racial hatred.
The indictment says Zündel denied the fate of destruction for the Jews planned by
National Socialist leaders and justified this by saying that the mass destruction in
Auschwitz and Treblinka, among others, were an invention of the Jews and served the
repression and blackmail of the German people. Sic. His trial which has been interrupted
several times resumed on June 9, 2006 and has been continuing, intermittently, since
then. According to some rumors, Zündel would be part-jewish, one of his grandmothers
being called Mayer. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper in 1997, he admitted in a
hush voice that he was not sure not to be part-Jew. Hitler had exactly the same
obsession. His second wife who divorced him in 1999, after 18 months of marriage,
declare once that "by the end (of the marriage), I thought he was evil incarnate." He
admires Hitler as a greatest stateman of the XXth century.
Zündel probably the most outspoken of Holocaust revisionism. He is also the author of
UFO's: Nazi Secret Weapons?, a rather silly piece of literature which has sold out seven
underground printings. The book argued that what are usually described as flying saucers
from outer space are actually Nazi secret weapons, still being launched from a hole in the
ice in Antarctica. The guy is no genius but he pauses as a "prisoner of conscience", a title
claimed by his wife in the Website she maintains to his actions. It seems actually that the
unconditional love of Zundel for his country put him on the track of "dedicating his life to
clearing Germany of the blood libel of the Holocaust". Some of his supporters do not fear
to compare him without any sense of ridicule to a "modern-day Galileo."(sic).
In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which
issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really
Die?, both prominent documents of the Holocaust denial movement. For many years, his
publishing house shipped to Germany thousands of brochures and samizdats whose
contents were outrageously neo-nazi. Since then Zündel underwent several trials and
arrests but was released until he was finally arrested by the US police in 2003 for violating
that country's immigration rules, specifically visa waiver overstay. He was deported to
Canada and after lenghty Court procedures he was eventually deported to Germany
where he was incarcerated in 2005. German prosecutors charged Zündel on July 19,
2005, with fourteen counts of inciting racial hatred.
The indictment says Zündel denied the fate of destruction for the Jews planned by
National Socialist leaders and justified this by saying that the mass destruction in
Auschwitz and Treblinka, among others, were an invention of the Jews and served the
repression and blackmail of the German people. Sic. His trial which has been interrupted
several times resumed on June 9, 2006 and has been continuing, intermittently, since
then. According to some rumors, Zündel would be part-jewish, one of his grandmothers
being called Mayer. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper in 1997, he admitted in a
hush voice that he was not sure not to be part-Jew. Hitler had exactly the same
obsession. His second wife who divorced him in 1999, after 18 months of marriage,
declare once that "by the end (of the marriage), I thought he was evil incarnate." He
admires Hitler as a greatest stateman of the XXth century.
| BREAKING NEWS : A German court on Thursday 15th of February 2007 convicted Ernst Zündel of 14 counts of incitement of racial hatred and sentenced him to five years in prison, the maximum allowed under German law for denying the Holocaust. The German Ernst Zündel practices Revisionism with the fanaticism of some of his fellow nazi countrymen. He is currently in jail for his ideas : his wife who maintains his Website presents him as a "prisoner of conscience". It is common to every denier to assume they are victims of the hatred of the establishment vs. their combat for honest history and truth. Not one second it comes to their mind that millions of Jews are fighting the same combat but in the other way. In my humble opinion, they are dangerous moronic falsifiers of history. However I really think that those anti-denial laws ares stupid and unfair and should be rescinded. It is the right of everybody to be entitled to their opinion and the Jews should shut up. They should not dictate to the world what we are allowed to say and what we can not say.. |
There are many other figures in the Holocaust denial galaxy but none as outspoken and active
as Faurisson, Irving and Zündel. Some people like Fred Leuchter (who described himself as
an "engineer," though he does not possess an engineering degree) gained international
notoriety by supporting other Revisionists. Leuchter who used to make his living developing,
selling, and servicing execution devices through Fred Leuchter Associates in Boston,
Massachusetts, -a firm specializing in gas chambers and executions,- became famous when
Zündel called him as expert witness in his trial in 1988 as to the existence of gas chambers in the
Nazi concentration camps.
Leuchter was paid by the defense $30,000 to perform an analysis on samples from the
chambers, which he obtained without the knowledge or consent of the Polish authorities. This was
illegal and should not have been admitted in Court but it was hidden to the Judge. His report
known as the Leuchter report made sensational headlines in the medias as it purported that
there was no trace of Zyklon-B in the walls of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and
Majdanek concentration camps. Then, it concluded, the extermination of the Jews by gas was a
non-event. An analysis of the "Leuchter Report" by Professor George Wellers in Paris concluded
Leuchter's "calculations to be an absurdity... "The Leuchter Report" is the sheerest hokum, as
Leuchter did not bother to consult with anyone about the chemical properties of cyanide, which
cannot penetrate more than 10 microns -one-tenth the width of a human hair- into brick. Any
Zyklon-B traces that might have withstood the elements for 50 years would have been diluted
thousands of times.
The Revisionists still stick to this bogus report as to a Bible. For Irving, it was a revelation.
Another expert, the French pharmacist Jean Claude Pressac published in 1989 a report
commissioned by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, that simply denied all the findings of
Reuchter and ridiculed him. But in spite of its voluminous 564 pages, the report does not bring
any evidence of mass murder by gas in the camps : at the most, Pressac talks of "criminal
traces." And in 564 pages, that is as close as he gets. However Pressac himself said that his
210-page work provided "the definitive rebuttal of revisionist theories." The debate is not close to
be over. And I do not personally think that one can prove or deny the existence of gas chambers
by rummaging into some rooms that might have or might have not been used as gas chambers.
Nevertheless, in October 1990, the state of Massachusetts brought criminal charges against
Leuchter for representing himself as an engineer without a license. Leuchter said he was a victim
of selective prosecution, since only 10% of engineers are actually licensed. He is now totally
discredited as he eventually appeared unaware of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and of the
history or science behind small-scale gassings directed by Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Leuchter is
the epitome of the bogus self-appointed expert who thinks he has a huge expertise because he
self-trained himself into a particular domain or field of sciences.
The most disturbing fact about the Holocaust denial is the support that his promoters enjoy from
all over the world and various organisms. On the American side, the most famous is the Institute
for Historical Review founded in 1978 by an anti-semite called Willis A. Carto in California
as "a public interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater
public awareness of history, and especially socially-politically relevant aspects of twentieth
century history." Nice words to hide the real nature of the body : revisionist history or
pseudo-history. Carto remains perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the
United States : he once said that "Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe. And of America.
. . . The blame . . . must be laid at the door of the international Jews." Carto's
anti-Semitism was further manifested in the Institute for Historical Review, which he founded in
1978 to spearhead a movement to deny the reality of the Holocaust and to market
Holocaust-denial propaganda. Carto once planned to halt what he termed the "inevitable
niggerfication of America" by convertly [sic] organizing a campaign to send all Blacks to Africa.
as Faurisson, Irving and Zündel. Some people like Fred Leuchter (who described himself as
an "engineer," though he does not possess an engineering degree) gained international
notoriety by supporting other Revisionists. Leuchter who used to make his living developing,
selling, and servicing execution devices through Fred Leuchter Associates in Boston,
Massachusetts, -a firm specializing in gas chambers and executions,- became famous when
Zündel called him as expert witness in his trial in 1988 as to the existence of gas chambers in the
Nazi concentration camps.
Leuchter was paid by the defense $30,000 to perform an analysis on samples from the
chambers, which he obtained without the knowledge or consent of the Polish authorities. This was
illegal and should not have been admitted in Court but it was hidden to the Judge. His report
known as the Leuchter report made sensational headlines in the medias as it purported that
there was no trace of Zyklon-B in the walls of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and
Majdanek concentration camps. Then, it concluded, the extermination of the Jews by gas was a
non-event. An analysis of the "Leuchter Report" by Professor George Wellers in Paris concluded
Leuchter's "calculations to be an absurdity... "The Leuchter Report" is the sheerest hokum, as
Leuchter did not bother to consult with anyone about the chemical properties of cyanide, which
cannot penetrate more than 10 microns -one-tenth the width of a human hair- into brick. Any
Zyklon-B traces that might have withstood the elements for 50 years would have been diluted
thousands of times.
The Revisionists still stick to this bogus report as to a Bible. For Irving, it was a revelation.
Another expert, the French pharmacist Jean Claude Pressac published in 1989 a report
commissioned by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, that simply denied all the findings of
Reuchter and ridiculed him. But in spite of its voluminous 564 pages, the report does not bring
any evidence of mass murder by gas in the camps : at the most, Pressac talks of "criminal
traces." And in 564 pages, that is as close as he gets. However Pressac himself said that his
210-page work provided "the definitive rebuttal of revisionist theories." The debate is not close to
be over. And I do not personally think that one can prove or deny the existence of gas chambers
by rummaging into some rooms that might have or might have not been used as gas chambers.
Nevertheless, in October 1990, the state of Massachusetts brought criminal charges against
Leuchter for representing himself as an engineer without a license. Leuchter said he was a victim
of selective prosecution, since only 10% of engineers are actually licensed. He is now totally
discredited as he eventually appeared unaware of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and of the
history or science behind small-scale gassings directed by Hitler's Reich Chancellery. Leuchter is
the epitome of the bogus self-appointed expert who thinks he has a huge expertise because he
self-trained himself into a particular domain or field of sciences.
The most disturbing fact about the Holocaust denial is the support that his promoters enjoy from
all over the world and various organisms. On the American side, the most famous is the Institute
for Historical Review founded in 1978 by an anti-semite called Willis A. Carto in California
as "a public interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater
public awareness of history, and especially socially-politically relevant aspects of twentieth
century history." Nice words to hide the real nature of the body : revisionist history or
pseudo-history. Carto remains perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the
United States : he once said that "Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe. And of America.
. . . The blame . . . must be laid at the door of the international Jews." Carto's
anti-Semitism was further manifested in the Institute for Historical Review, which he founded in
1978 to spearhead a movement to deny the reality of the Holocaust and to market
Holocaust-denial propaganda. Carto once planned to halt what he termed the "inevitable
niggerfication of America" by convertly [sic] organizing a campaign to send all Blacks to Africa.
| The would-be US expert Fred Leuchter had graduated from Boston University in 1964 with only a B.A. in history, and had never taken an engineering licensing test in Massachusetts. Film director Errol Morris made a documentary about him called "Mr. Death : Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter". Read a review of the movie here. |
| French pharmacist Jean Claude Pressac who initially presented himself as a Revisionist gained some fleeting notoriety in 1989 with his 564 pages report about the gas chambers. But his findings were thin and the report did not really put an end to the quarrel. |
At the organization's first conference in 1979, calling the Holocaust "atrocity propaganda"
and declaring Zionists to be "predators" who exploit the "guilt" of the West, Carto set the
tone for these events and for the contents of its publications. However in 1993, the
Institute's editorial staff and board of directors voted to terminate its association with its
founder. On October 4, 1993, Carto received a letter announcing that he had been
"fired." The most significant stake in the issuing controversy between the founders and
the executives was control of as much as $7.5 million in stock certificates bequeathed to
IHR's parent corporation, The Legion for the Survival of Freedom, by Jean Farrel, an heir
of Thomas Edison (1).
On November 15, 1996, California Superior Court Judge Runston G. Maino ruled in favor
of IHR, saying Carto owed the group and the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, $6.43
million of the estimated $7.5 million bequeathed by Farrel. The Institute’s offices are
located in Orange County, southern California. Mark Weber has been the director since
1995. With a master's degree in History from Indiana University in his pocket, Weber got
his start in the radical right in 1978, when he took the position of news editor for National
Vanguard, a publication of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Officially, the IHR's goal is " to
bring history into accord with the facts.” Not more, not less. Funnily enough it is the
goal of any good historian, so in a twist of thought, the IHR monopolizes the goal as if
mainstream historians were not credible and diffident organizations corrupted by
politicians. By the way some director of the IHR ar the time of the trial - Tom Marcellus-
was a member of the Church of Scientology. At some stage, the IHR - according to the
Holocaust Historical Project site- has evidently attempted to obtain new financing from the
Arab states of the Middle East..
This intellectual dishonesty and totalitarian process is the real mark of the IHR whose
current director has nevertheless some difficulty to hide his neo-nazi past. He once
warned "against America's becoming a sort of Mexicanized, Puerto Ricanized
country. . . . I don't believe it's possible for Black Americans to be assimilated
into white society." But it it is as a Holocaust-denier that Weber has found his niche on
the radical right, and it is through the IHR that he has found the platform to pursue his
propaganda mission.
and declaring Zionists to be "predators" who exploit the "guilt" of the West, Carto set the
tone for these events and for the contents of its publications. However in 1993, the
Institute's editorial staff and board of directors voted to terminate its association with its
founder. On October 4, 1993, Carto received a letter announcing that he had been
"fired." The most significant stake in the issuing controversy between the founders and
the executives was control of as much as $7.5 million in stock certificates bequeathed to
IHR's parent corporation, The Legion for the Survival of Freedom, by Jean Farrel, an heir
of Thomas Edison (1).
On November 15, 1996, California Superior Court Judge Runston G. Maino ruled in favor
of IHR, saying Carto owed the group and the Legion for the Survival of Freedom, $6.43
million of the estimated $7.5 million bequeathed by Farrel. The Institute’s offices are
located in Orange County, southern California. Mark Weber has been the director since
1995. With a master's degree in History from Indiana University in his pocket, Weber got
his start in the radical right in 1978, when he took the position of news editor for National
Vanguard, a publication of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Officially, the IHR's goal is " to
bring history into accord with the facts.” Not more, not less. Funnily enough it is the
goal of any good historian, so in a twist of thought, the IHR monopolizes the goal as if
mainstream historians were not credible and diffident organizations corrupted by
politicians. By the way some director of the IHR ar the time of the trial - Tom Marcellus-
was a member of the Church of Scientology. At some stage, the IHR - according to the
Holocaust Historical Project site- has evidently attempted to obtain new financing from the
Arab states of the Middle East..
This intellectual dishonesty and totalitarian process is the real mark of the IHR whose
current director has nevertheless some difficulty to hide his neo-nazi past. He once
warned "against America's becoming a sort of Mexicanized, Puerto Ricanized
country. . . . I don't believe it's possible for Black Americans to be assimilated
into white society." But it it is as a Holocaust-denier that Weber has found his niche on
the radical right, and it is through the IHR that he has found the platform to pursue his
propaganda mission.
| Willis A. Carto published a myriad of anti-semitic and neo-nazis publications since the 60s, notably The Spotlight. Although modest in appearance, he is one of the most vindictive hatred-monger of America. |
| Current director of the IHR, Mark Weber is well known for his outrageous statements like this one :"The Holocaust is a religion. Its underpinnings in the realm of historical fact are non-existent -- no Hitler order, no plan, no budget, no gas chambers, no autopsies of gassed victims, no bones, no ashes, no skulls, no nothing.... Secondly, it's a religion for losers.... " |
On the European side of the Revisionists supporters, we
have the French AARGH (L'Association des Anciens
Amateurs de Récits de Guerres et d'Holocaustes) created
in 1994 at the beginning of the explosion of the Internet. Its
goal was to put on line the Revisonist library and to explain
to the world what everybody knows since eternity : history
is written by the victors or as would have said Napoleon
"history is a bunch of lies agreed upon." The problem is
that once more any serious historian is perfectly aware of
this biais and does his best to debuke the lies with the
means at his disposal.
It is not an easy processus as everybody knows. But our
Revisionists know better : they have documents that
mainstream historians do not possess, they have
discovered facts that politicians and historians hide, they
are to be believed, notably when it comes to the Holocaust,
Hitler and WW2.
Behind a pretense of historical truth one can always detect
the roots of anti-semitism, anti-communism and somehow
anti-Christianism. Under the pretext to save the Western
World and the White Man from the dangers of the Third
World and the Coloured People, the Revisionists wage a
war against our intellect. Their final goal is probably as
vague as Hitler's final goal or at least as dangerous :
because as American historian Richard Overy pointed out
in "Hitler and Stalin : The Dictators", Hitler saw the key to
survival in recognizing that history progressed through
racial rather than class struggle.
So the histrionics of Revisonism are in fact racists under
the disguise of Historians and of "combattants de la
liberté." Of course AARGH denies any form of
anti-semistism but complains about the extent of the Jewish
power in the society at large....His founder Serge Thion,
an ex-researcher at at the French Conseil national de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) wrote that "we are a
cultural enterprise, which wants to contribute to understand
our time." Very good, sir. Thion was linked to the left-wing
publishing house La Vieille Taupe (The Old Mole)
launched in 1965 by the Situationist movement which was
set on a more left-wing turn in 1980 by Pierre Guiullaume.
In 1986, the Vieille Taupe published "The Auschwitz Myth"
by Wilhelm Stäglich and put it into his catalogue.
have the French AARGH (L'Association des Anciens
Amateurs de Récits de Guerres et d'Holocaustes) created
in 1994 at the beginning of the explosion of the Internet. Its
goal was to put on line the Revisonist library and to explain
to the world what everybody knows since eternity : history
is written by the victors or as would have said Napoleon
"history is a bunch of lies agreed upon." The problem is
that once more any serious historian is perfectly aware of
this biais and does his best to debuke the lies with the
means at his disposal.
It is not an easy processus as everybody knows. But our
Revisionists know better : they have documents that
mainstream historians do not possess, they have
discovered facts that politicians and historians hide, they
are to be believed, notably when it comes to the Holocaust,
Hitler and WW2.
Behind a pretense of historical truth one can always detect
the roots of anti-semitism, anti-communism and somehow
anti-Christianism. Under the pretext to save the Western
World and the White Man from the dangers of the Third
World and the Coloured People, the Revisionists wage a
war against our intellect. Their final goal is probably as
vague as Hitler's final goal or at least as dangerous :
because as American historian Richard Overy pointed out
in "Hitler and Stalin : The Dictators", Hitler saw the key to
survival in recognizing that history progressed through
racial rather than class struggle.
So the histrionics of Revisonism are in fact racists under
the disguise of Historians and of "combattants de la
liberté." Of course AARGH denies any form of
anti-semistism but complains about the extent of the Jewish
power in the society at large....His founder Serge Thion,
an ex-researcher at at the French Conseil national de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) wrote that "we are a
cultural enterprise, which wants to contribute to understand
our time." Very good, sir. Thion was linked to the left-wing
publishing house La Vieille Taupe (The Old Mole)
launched in 1965 by the Situationist movement which was
set on a more left-wing turn in 1980 by Pierre Guiullaume.
In 1986, the Vieille Taupe published "The Auschwitz Myth"
by Wilhelm Stäglich and put it into his catalogue.
| Ernst Zündel and his SA-like bodyguards. Like Hitler, the members of the Revisionist Clan think that the engine of history is not the class struggle but the racial struggle. |
Strangely enough, the founders of the Vieille Taupe immediately claimed to lead a combat
against all taboos, i.e. humanism, democracy, money, gas chambers, feminism, sexuality. In
1983, they published "L'horreur est humaine" (Horror is human) that established a link
between sexuality, pedophilia and the extermination camps. One of the closest
collaborators of the Vieille Taupe, Michel Caignet, a neo-nazi, appeared in 1997 before a
Paris Court under the charge of organizing a pedophiles network called Toro Bravo.
Caignet translated in 1976 the "Lies of Auschwitz" by the Danish author Thies
Christophersen.
AAARGH took its distances with La Vieille Taupe which is now a small bookshop with no
serious existence or publications at its catalogue but the activities of AAARGH are growing
thanks to the possibilities of the Internet and its mirror sites. Prosecuted and filtered in
France, the Association and its site have found refuge in America, Germany and in other
countries. It has also encouraged other Revisionist sites to flourish and proliferate on the
Internet. Their list is long and goes from the Committee for Open Dabate on the Holocaust
of Bradley Smith, an ex Media director at the IHR who tells us that the "Jews want to destroy
intellectual freedom", to The Occidental Quaterly through The Committee for
Historical Truth to The Holocaust Historiography. All display anti-semitic or homosexual
contents. The worst of all being probably Radio Islam made by the Moroccan dissident
Ahmed Rami whose anti-semitic stance and biaised approach can fool nobody.
against all taboos, i.e. humanism, democracy, money, gas chambers, feminism, sexuality. In
1983, they published "L'horreur est humaine" (Horror is human) that established a link
between sexuality, pedophilia and the extermination camps. One of the closest
collaborators of the Vieille Taupe, Michel Caignet, a neo-nazi, appeared in 1997 before a
Paris Court under the charge of organizing a pedophiles network called Toro Bravo.
Caignet translated in 1976 the "Lies of Auschwitz" by the Danish author Thies
Christophersen.
AAARGH took its distances with La Vieille Taupe which is now a small bookshop with no
serious existence or publications at its catalogue but the activities of AAARGH are growing
thanks to the possibilities of the Internet and its mirror sites. Prosecuted and filtered in
France, the Association and its site have found refuge in America, Germany and in other
countries. It has also encouraged other Revisionist sites to flourish and proliferate on the
Internet. Their list is long and goes from the Committee for Open Dabate on the Holocaust
of Bradley Smith, an ex Media director at the IHR who tells us that the "Jews want to destroy
intellectual freedom", to The Occidental Quaterly through The Committee for
Historical Truth to The Holocaust Historiography. All display anti-semitic or homosexual
contents. The worst of all being probably Radio Islam made by the Moroccan dissident
Ahmed Rami whose anti-semitic stance and biaised approach can fool nobody.
| Moroccan dissident Ahmed Rami lives in Sweden and publishes an anti-semitic site that under the pretense of an assumed muslim democracy and the fight for freedom aims at shifting the sands ot Western policies and eliminating the nation of Israel and the "Jewish domination". Hitler would have gladly accepted him in the NSDAP. |
| The main goal of Radio Islam is to denounce the impossibility to criticize Israel which Ahmed Rami and Radio Islam do profusely without being prosecuted or even filtered. The contradiction as always for the people who complain of being persecuted does not jump to their eyes. Blindness is the particularity of the faithful. Denouncing the over-presence of the Jewish writers and authors, he blames the lack of interest for Palestinian authors. Nothing is more false. A simple search on Google with the keywords "Palestinian authors" show immediately the wide interest for this type of literature : even the university of London has a course on Palestinian literature with a bibliography including authors like Said K. Aburish, Mahmud Darwish, Emil Habibi, Salam Jayyusi, Ghassan Kanafani, Sahar Khalifa, Khalid Sulaiman and Abdallah K., Al-Udhari. Rami abusively concludes from this alleged lack of interest that the Palestinian people is sentenced to death and he does not hesitate to talk of a Genocide. Nothing else. If historical truth goes through such intellectual depravities and totalitarian shortcut, we are not about to discover it any time soon. "Revisionists, boasts the site of the AAARGH, are people who want to know if what is being said is true." A very appealing motto : but once more slogans and proud statements do not confer any credibility to ventures which -as historian Deborah Lipstadt has termed them- are nothing but an "assault on truth and memory." |
| Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. (USA), reported in an interview with an American journalist that David Irving said to a survivor who appeared with him on Australian radio, “Mrs. Altman, how much money did you make from having that number tattooed on your arm?” |
| The Revisionists, a bunch of neo-nazis, anti-semitic hatred-mongers who pause as Mr. Nice Guys, truth diggers and freedom fighters. But is the Holocaust denial anything else than a juicy business managed by under-educated morons or a real threat to the history ot the Holocaust ? |
The last trend about Revisionism is the growing support received from
Muslim countries, notably Iran. We knew since long that Arab countries
have been home to several war criminals since the end of WW2 : Egypt
hid for some time SS officers who trained the Egyptian army and Syria is
still hiding the mass murderer Alois Brünner, Eichman's deputy, a man
probably more brutal and cynical than his masters who denounces the
Holocaust as a sophistry.
The new element is the official support given by some countries. In
Decembrer 2006, the Republic of Iran organized a 2-days Conference
about the Holocaust under the theme "Review of the Holocaust: Global
Vision". Hundreds of participants attended the conference presided over
by Dr Manouchehr Mohammadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Education &
Research with the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A large number of European and American holocaust deniers felt obliged
to be present to pay their lip services to the Ayatollahs. Even some ultra
orthodox Jewish rabbis like Moshe Ayre Friedman from Austria (picture to
the right) were present under the pretext that they oppose Zionism.
Among the speakers from the West, one could notice people like the
inevitable ageing Robert Faurissson who made the same speech for the
1000th time, Arnold Cohen from France, Swedish computer science
teacher Jan Bernhoff from Sweden (2), Frederic Töben from the Adelaide
Institute (3), David Duke, "Ph.D", White Supremacist (see his site) and
ex-leader of the KKK in the USA, now member of the MAUP University in
Ukraine better known as the University of Hatred, Leonardo Clerici,
chairmanof the Skriptura Institute in Belgium, Christian Lindner of
Copenhagen University, Patrick McNally from the University of Chuo in
Japan, A.Pungas from Greece and Bradley R. Smith from the Committee
for Open Debate on the Holocaust. (CODOH). All those people manage a
site whose contents is overtly revisionist or anti-semitic. The assault on
truth and memory is continuing at a quick space while the Holocaust denial
is becoming a huge and juicy business.
Muslim countries, notably Iran. We knew since long that Arab countries
have been home to several war criminals since the end of WW2 : Egypt
hid for some time SS officers who trained the Egyptian army and Syria is
still hiding the mass murderer Alois Brünner, Eichman's deputy, a man
probably more brutal and cynical than his masters who denounces the
Holocaust as a sophistry.
The new element is the official support given by some countries. In
Decembrer 2006, the Republic of Iran organized a 2-days Conference
about the Holocaust under the theme "Review of the Holocaust: Global
Vision". Hundreds of participants attended the conference presided over
by Dr Manouchehr Mohammadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Education &
Research with the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A large number of European and American holocaust deniers felt obliged
to be present to pay their lip services to the Ayatollahs. Even some ultra
orthodox Jewish rabbis like Moshe Ayre Friedman from Austria (picture to
the right) were present under the pretext that they oppose Zionism.
Among the speakers from the West, one could notice people like the
inevitable ageing Robert Faurissson who made the same speech for the
1000th time, Arnold Cohen from France, Swedish computer science
teacher Jan Bernhoff from Sweden (2), Frederic Töben from the Adelaide
Institute (3), David Duke, "Ph.D", White Supremacist (see his site) and
ex-leader of the KKK in the USA, now member of the MAUP University in
Ukraine better known as the University of Hatred, Leonardo Clerici,
chairmanof the Skriptura Institute in Belgium, Christian Lindner of
Copenhagen University, Patrick McNally from the University of Chuo in
Japan, A.Pungas from Greece and Bradley R. Smith from the Committee
for Open Debate on the Holocaust. (CODOH). All those people manage a
site whose contents is overtly revisionist or anti-semitic. The assault on
truth and memory is continuing at a quick space while the Holocaust denial
is becoming a huge and juicy business.
| NOTES : (1) A descendant of inventor Thomas Edison who died in Switzerland in August 1985, Jean Farrel was for several years prior to her death, one of the IHR's most generous supporters. At a meeting in March 1984, Mrs. Farrel explained to IHR Director Thomas Marcellus that she intended to leave her estate -- which included stock certificates, unset diamonds and gold coins -- to further the work of the IHR. Acting as agent for the Legion, Carto in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 17, 1990, signed legal papers, including a "Distribution Agreement," that specified that more than seven million dollars of the Farrel estate were to go to the Legion. (2) Bernhoff was suspended from his post of teacher for attending the Tehran Conference. During the conference, he stated that only 300,000 Jews died from the Holocaust (3) In 1999, Töben was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in Austria for publishing holocaust denial content on the Web. The Adelaide Institute is nothing but a site that purports to have the influence and the trappings of an Institute |
| Some utlra-orthodox Rabbis attended the infamous Tehran Conference about the Holocaust on December 9-10, 2006. Among them Moshe Friedman from Austria. |
| Bradley Smith runs the CODOH site from his home in Mexico where he emigrated when the cost of his combat became too expensive in America. He was once married to a Jewish woman and attended her son's bar mitzvah. |
| Listen to Mark Weber : the man can barely speak English, can not hold a conference without reading every word from a sheet of paper and looks like a Sophomore student making his first speech in front of a rather cold-feet audience. And that sort of man pretends to bring us the truth: laughable. |
In Italy at last we have a guy called Carlo Mattogno who boasts of a "very
specialized education ranging from the classics to the military" but omits to
mention any degree or diploma. It is a fact common to many Holocaust deniers,
they are under graduated, generally self-trained like Adolf Hitler by the way and
always keen on self promotion when it comes to their expertise of knowledge
which is generally as vague as inflated. It looks like several of them are drop out
from College who tried to attribute a Ph.D to themselves in the easy discipline
called "Holocaust denial."
This Mattogno advertises his contribution to the Journal of Historical
Review as a big feat of major importance whereas everybody knows that this
leaflet is nothing else than the vehicle of ideas of the Californian school of
Revisionism. He seems to have a weakness for denouncing the myth of
Auschwitz and trying to sell his own literature on line. The business of the
Holocaust denial goes on unabated.
specialized education ranging from the classics to the military" but omits to
mention any degree or diploma. It is a fact common to many Holocaust deniers,
they are under graduated, generally self-trained like Adolf Hitler by the way and
always keen on self promotion when it comes to their expertise of knowledge
which is generally as vague as inflated. It looks like several of them are drop out
from College who tried to attribute a Ph.D to themselves in the easy discipline
called "Holocaust denial."
This Mattogno advertises his contribution to the Journal of Historical
Review as a big feat of major importance whereas everybody knows that this
leaflet is nothing else than the vehicle of ideas of the Californian school of
Revisionism. He seems to have a weakness for denouncing the myth of
Auschwitz and trying to sell his own literature on line. The business of the
Holocaust denial goes on unabated.
| A quick look at the site of Signor Carlo Mattogno proud contributor to the Journal of Historical Review confirms that the Revisionist band is a tight clan with international links for self promotion |
| Visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Free entrance for the Holocaust Deniers and their family |
In the end however, one can wonder whether the Revisionists who are so
eager to get and find some support from the Muslim states are not being
fooled and manipulated by people more clever than they are. On one
hand one can effectively listen to the Iranian President declare that
"Israel must be wiped off the map of the Middle East" to great applauses
from a lot of people and silent approbation from the Revisionists. None
of them actually raised to protest against such an outrageous statement if
it must be taken seriously and verbatim.
Because on an other hand, Iranian TV was ironically broadcasting only
two weeks after the end of the Conference on the Holocaust an interview
of Kazem Jalali, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security
and Foreign Policy Committee, in which he declared : "Even if we had
a nuclear bomb, we would not drop It on Tel Aviv." This interview
can be watched here. So finally one can seriously think that the
Revisionists are only silly little Western kids playing a dangerous game in
a playing-field too big and too sophisticated for their racist, xenophobic
and anti-semitic limited visions of this world.
In Janyary 2007, 100 Iranian intellectuals, researchers, writers, scholars,
journalists, living abroad, sent a letter to the New York Review of Books to
denounce the holding of the Holocaust Denial Conference of Decembrer
2006. The text of their letter can be read here.
eager to get and find some support from the Muslim states are not being
fooled and manipulated by people more clever than they are. On one
hand one can effectively listen to the Iranian President declare that
"Israel must be wiped off the map of the Middle East" to great applauses
from a lot of people and silent approbation from the Revisionists. None
of them actually raised to protest against such an outrageous statement if
it must be taken seriously and verbatim.
Because on an other hand, Iranian TV was ironically broadcasting only
two weeks after the end of the Conference on the Holocaust an interview
of Kazem Jalali, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security
and Foreign Policy Committee, in which he declared : "Even if we had
a nuclear bomb, we would not drop It on Tel Aviv." This interview
can be watched here. So finally one can seriously think that the
Revisionists are only silly little Western kids playing a dangerous game in
a playing-field too big and too sophisticated for their racist, xenophobic
and anti-semitic limited visions of this world.
In Janyary 2007, 100 Iranian intellectuals, researchers, writers, scholars,
journalists, living abroad, sent a letter to the New York Review of Books to
denounce the holding of the Holocaust Denial Conference of Decembrer
2006. The text of their letter can be read here.
| Kazem Jalali, Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee : "Even if we had a nuclear bomb, we would not drop It on Tel Aviv". Listen to him HERE. |
| Nevertheless, the Revisionist clan (a list can be consulted here) and their Iranian supporters form a world view that creates conspiracies as a way of explaining the unfolding of historical events; it is a pessimistic and frantic outlook, characterized in 1964 by historian Richard Hofstadter as "the paranoid style" of politics, which shifts responsibility from the self to sinister, omnipotent others—typically and historically the Jews. If the outcome of this style was not so dramatic and terrifying, it would be laughable. In the end, it would be a big mistake to think that the Revisionists are not dangerous or that they are doomed. As shows too well this summary of their actions and misdeeds during the year 2006, they seem to even gain influence and credibility. It is an international duty to silence them. |
| About David Duke and his Ph.D, Markus Gollman of Kiev said : “No matter how camouflaged in pseudo- intellectualism his historical and scientific inquiry, for such anti-Semitic writings, he should be stripped of his Doctor’s robes and given a prison uniform. We will not rest until Duke and the fascist President of the university, Gergiev Tchokin, rot in jail.” |
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