Archive/File: orgs/american/ihr/jhr jhr.v13n5 From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Mon Sep 13 07:23:28 PDT 1993 Article: 3668 of alt.revisionism Xref: oneb soc.history:16066 alt.censorship:12785 alt.activism:27218 alt.revisionism:3668 alt.discrimination:8766 alt.conspiracy:19436 alt.politics.correct:5124 alt.journalism.criticism:507 talk.politics.misc:93025 talk.politics.mideast:33922 soc.college:8525 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.cyberstore.ca!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast,soc.college Subject: Penn State 'Holocaust History' Course: A Lesson in Ignorance Date: 12 Sep 1993 23:15:49 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 121 Message-ID: <27136l$3cf@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com Summary: Professor Responds to Revisionist Question by Calling Police >From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): Penn State 'Holocaust History' Course: A Lesson in Ignorance Professor Responds to Revisionist Question By Calling Police When _Journal_ subscriber Karl Striedieck signed up in January for Professor Rose's three-credit "Holocaust History" course at Pennsylvania State University (University Park), he wasn't expecting a warm welcome for his skeptical views. Still he wasn't quite prepared for the bigoted reception he did receive. Striedieck, who served for 23 years as a US military fighter pilot, says that he decided to sign up for course 297C "to broaden my knowledge of the subject in a university-level course, taught by an accredited specialist on the subject." On the first day of the Spring term class, Dr. Paul Rose warned students that they should not read any of the writings of Robert Faurisson, Arthur Butz, Arno Mayer, David Irving, or Mark Weber, or any of the publications of the Institute for Historical Review. These Revisionist historians are so clever, Rose explained, that students aren't able to see through their deceptive arguments. Thinking this a rather odd approach to take by someone supposedly dedicated to open-minded inquiry, Striedieck informed the teacher that he had, in fact, already read works by these individuals, and would appreciate a critique of their arguments. Rose responded by suggesting that the student immediately drop the course. "Much of what Rose taught in the weeks that followed contrasted sharply with the findings of revisionist historians," recalls Striedieck. "Still, I resisted the temptation to raise awkward questions." That is, until one day when students were assigned a short story that included a claim of homicidal gas chambers at Buchenwald, a Nuremberg trial story that is now generally acknowledged as a propaganda lie. At this point Striedieck asked: "I have been unable to find a single serious historian on either side of this issue who claims that there were homicidal gas chambers at Buchenwald. Would you please comment?" Without attempting to answer, Rose ordered Striedieck out of the classroom. The student responded by explaining that "since I haven't behaved in a manner deserving expulsion, I am staying." In the face of this defiance, the teacher threatened to call the police to have him removed. Rose then abruptly left the room, and ten minutes later two campus policemen arrived. During Rose's absence, Striedieck gave the other students (bored until this point) an abbreviated crash course in Holocaust Revisionism. After taking his statement and listening to his account of what had happened, the police agreed with Striedieck that he had done nothing wrong, and returned with him to the classroom. Unsuccessful in his further efforts to remove the uppity student, Rose himself returned ten minutes later and finished the hour-long class. Later Striedieck met with the head of the History Department, who agreed that he was a serious student who had done nothing improper. Professor Rose's course reflects the standards that now prevail in American academic life. More than half of class time was devoted to watching videotape presentations, many of them frankly fictional dramatizations, including "Seven Beauties," "The Garden of the Finzi-Contini," "The Wannsee Conference," "Nasty Girl," and "Europa, Europa." Although the teacher urged students to purchase and read Michael Marrus' _The Holocaust in History_, as a "course text," Rose made no assignments or even further references to it. He did make a point of bringing to class a copy of the 1989 book about Auschwitz by French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac (whom Rose inaccurately identified as an engineer), and of telling students that this 564-page work thoroughly discredits the revisionists. On other occasions, Rose endorsed the Holocaust fable that Ilse Koch made lampshades from the tatooed skins of murdered Buchenwald inmates, and said that Zyklon B was not an effective pesticide. This "Holocaust history" class might be described as a course in German-bashing, Striedieck recalls. At one point, Rose told students that the German national character is one of "mindless obedience." Of the eight or so students who normally attended, one or two routinely nodded off during class. There were no tests or exams, and no grading policy was announced. The only requirement for this three-credit course was an eight-page paper analyzing "a single Holocaust" event, issue, episode or process from different perspectives. Predictably, Dr. Rose did not find Striedieck's paper on Birkenau very satisfying, and gave it a "D." --M.W. [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was manually transcribed by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! ___________________________________________________________ | | | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | |___________________________________________________________| Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" [end of file] -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Wed Sep 15 23:13:10 PDT 1993 Article: 27380 of alt.activism Xref: oneb soc.history:16196 alt.censorship:12832 alt.activism:27380 alt.revisionism:3701 alt.discrimination:8818 alt.conspiracy:19521 alt.politics.correct:5157 alt.journalism.criticism:575 talk.politics.misc:93333 talk.politics.mideast:34156 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: How Fake War Propaganda Stories Are Manufactured Date: 15 Sep 1993 04:24:25 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 121 Message-ID: <276u19$l84@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com >From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): HOW FAKE WAR PROPAGANDA STORIES ARE MANUFACTURED T.J.S.L./S.B. SECRET. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ Suggestions for Rumours of a Military Nature submitted through the Inter-Service Security Board for the current week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Serial| Suggestions. |Submitted| Remarks by No. | | by | I.S.S.B. ______|______________________________________________|_________|____________ | | | A. | GENERAL. Note: This rumour is designed to | | | ~~~~~~~ suggest that although the Germans | | | may have a peace offer in mind, | | | (a) such offers are never genuine, | | | (b) the British have no intention | | | of negotiating. | | | 1. The reason the Germans want peace is | | | that they have worked out that it will | | | require 200 divisions to hold the Russian | | | front in winter. Fifteen divisions are | | | proving too few even for the Russian | | No security | guerrillas. | P.I.D. | objection. | | | B. | GERMANY. Note: Nos 1-7 are designed to | | | ~~~~~~~ stress the horrors of the Russian | | | winter and are aimed at German | | | women, particularly the older | | | generation. | | | 1. The wolves in White Russia track | | | ambulance columns by the smell of blood. | " | " | | | | 2. Two ambulance columns from the East | | | Front ran out of petrol in a forest in White | | | Russia and were besieged by wolves for three | | | days. When they were rescued only the | | | guards were left alive and the only doctor | | | had gone mad. | " | " | | | | 3. The Wehrmacht have realised that heavy | | | casualties among specialist troops are | | | killing off all their numbers and have | | | insisted that men over 40 should be drafted | | | into shock battalions. | " | " | | | | 4. Now that the East Front war has become | | | less mechanised the last war soldier has | | | come more into his own and is getting more | | | of the fighting. | " | " | | | | 5. At a certain point on the homeward | | | journey guards and attendants on German | | | hospital trains are ordered to put their gas | | | masks on. The train then enters a tunnel | | | where it stays for half an hour. When it | | | comes out the wounded are dead. | " | " | Note. This rumour was suggested by the | | | ~~~~ J.I.C. | | | | | | 6. There are special words in some of the | | | more remote German hospitals for noseless, | | | earless, toeless and fingerless soldiers -- | | | frostbite cases. | " | " Manufactured "rumors," designed to mislead and demoralize the German public during the Second World War, were proposed to the British War Cabinet's Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee in October 1941. "Rumor" number five, which was suggested by the Joint Intelligence Committee, is a story that the Germans were using poison gas to secretly kill off their own wounded soldiers. This document, and other records of this Committee, were kept secret until earlier this year, when they were released to the Public Record Office in London. This document is reproduced in facsimile from _The Independant Magazine_ (London), March 27, 1993, p. 59. [Format changed slightly in the process of adapting the facsimile to computer ASCII form. Also, the letters T.J.S.L./S.B. in the top left may be slightly incorrect because those letters were not entirely legible in the facsimile. -Maynard] [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was manually transcribed by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! ___________________________________________________________ | | | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | |___________________________________________________________| Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" [end of file] -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Mon Sep 20 23:14:44 PDT 1993 Article: 27594 of alt.activism Xref: oneb soc.history:16601 alt.censorship:13066 alt.activism:27594 alt.revisionism:3897 alt.discrimination:8955 alt.conspiracy:19757 alt.politics.correct:5284 alt.journalism.criticism:709 talk.politics.misc:94018 talk.politics.mideast:34427 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!torn!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: Vindication for Demjanjuk! Date: 20 Sep 1993 05:50:57 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 127 Message-ID: <27k8vh$huu@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com >From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): From the Editor VINDICATION FOR DEMJANJUK On April 18, 1988, an Israeli court solemnly declared "without hesitation" that a simple Ukrainian-born auto worker, John Demjanjuk, was "the sadistic motorman who had operated the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp in Treblinka." When the verdict was announced, hundreds in the Jerusalem courtroom jumped to their feet and launched into gleeful shouts of "Death! Death! Death!" Five years later - and just as we were wrapping up this issue of the Journal - Israel's Supreme Court acquitted Demjanjuk of the hideous charge of helping to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews. In the face of compelling new evidence, it apparently decided that acquittal was the least damaging way out of what had become a great embarrassment for the Zionist state. John Demjanjuk's terrible 16-year ordeal has meant destruction of his good name, financial ruin for his family, and seven years imprisonment, five of them under sentence of death. Along with all others who stood with him, we join in expressing joy at this victory of justice. Demjanjuk must now be permitted to return without delay to his family in America. [Photograph captioned, "John Demjanjuk in Israel"] Ignoring for the moment Israel's role in the case, the actions of our own government should shame every American who cares about justice and fair play. The acquittal is a devastating indictment of the "Office of Special Investigations," the US government agency established to track down "Nazi war criminals." In its zeal to "get" Demjanjuk, the OSI, it later turned out, suppressed and threw aside - in at least one case, literally - evidence that OSI officials knew could have helped to exonerate this naturalized American citizen. Now, more than ever, it is time to shut down the OSI. Even more culpable, though, have been the US Congressmen and Senators who dutifully voted, year after year, to continue funding the OSI. Throughout this entire affair, Washington's politicians and much of the establishment media - fearful of the power of America's most formidable special interest group - put an alien agenda above all else. To protect their privileged positions, they bowed to the demands of the Holocaust lobby in this assault against justice and the rights of American citizens. There was never any legal justification, for example, for the United States to turn Demjanjuk over to Israel - a country that did not even exist at the time of the alleged crimes. The Zionist state had no more right to try Demjanjuk than, let us say, the Vatican has to try Catholics living in the United States for crimes allegedly committed in Brazil. By handing him over, the US government recognized Israel's bizarre claim to act in the name of Jews everywhere. To their everlasting credit, a handful of courageous Americans dared to defy the powerful "Never Forget, Never Forgive" lobby. We remember, in particular, Patrick Buchanan, Ohio Congressman James Traficant, and Cleveland businessman (and good friend of the IHR) Jerome Brentar. Because they demanded justice for Demjanjuk, these courageous men were vilified as anti-Semites and "defenders of Nazi war criminals." These three are owed a great apology. But given the character of Alan Dershowitz, Marvin Hier and their like, it would be foolish to expect any expression of humility or contrition. Happily, the acquittal of Demjanjuk is an important defeat for the mighty Holocaust lobby - which Britain's chief rabbi, Immanuel Jakobovits, once accurately called "an entire industry, with handsome profits for writers, researchers, filmmakers, monument builders, museum planners and even politicians." We don't expect many newspapers to stress the point, but the acquittal is also an important vindication of the cause of historical revisionism. For one thing, revisionists have again been confirmed in their decades-long insistence that "eyewitness" testimony - even of Jewish "Holocaust survivors" - must be regarded with the greatest skepticism. In his highly-publicized trial in Jerusalem, which had many of the elements of a show trial, five Jewish "Holocaust" survivors declared under oath that they recognized Demjanjuk as the mass murderer of Treblinka known as "Ivan the Terrible." The judges cited this "eyewitness" testimony as the most compelling evidence against the accused. Although the five "witnesses" conceivably could have been grievously mistaken, so fantastic and sensational was their testimony that the heavy presumption must be that they lied brazenly. From the outset, Israel's leaders announced that the well-publicized 1988 trial of Demjanjuk would be an "educational" undertaking that would "teach" the world the "lessons of the Holocaust." The Demjanjuk case certainly does have some important lessons to teach - and we will have much more to say about them in the next issue of the Journal. [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was scanned by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! ___________________________________________________________ | | | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | |___________________________________________________________| Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" [end of file] -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) Article 27595 of alt.activism: Xref: oneb soc.history:16602 alt.censorship:13067 alt.activism:27595 alt.revisionism:3898 alt.discrimination:8956 alt.conspiracy:19758 alt.politics.correct:5285 alt.journalism.criticism:710 talk.politics.misc:94019 talk.politics.mideast:34428 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: The Holocaust Issue: Three Christian Views Date: 20 Sep 1993 06:50:00 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 429 Message-ID: <27kce8$j18@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 12, Number 4 (Winter 1992-93): The Holocaust Issue: Three Christian Views ___________________________________________________________________________ Christian Responsibility to Truth HERMAN OTTEN While most Revisionists appear to be opposed to the construction of the [US government] Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, right next to some of our nations's most cherished monuments, I say: Let it be built! One day it will serve as a monument to the stupidity of modern man, who can still accept a hoax as a fact. Hopefully it will then serve as a reminder to study all the facts and evidence, and repudiate all hoaxes. The day is surely coming when all the evidence showing that the Germans never exterminated six million Jews can no longer be suppressed. Truth is not determined by majority vote. I learned this lesson in high school, and since then have repeatedly discovered how the majority of scholars, even within our churches, can be in error. That our presidents, senators and congressmen are all supposed to be convinced that the Germans killed six million Jews, that almost all of our nation's professors and churchmen are said to maintain that the Holocaust is a fact, doesn't make it a fact. There is no dispute over the fact that large numbers of Jews were deported to concentration camps and ghettos, or that many Jews died or were killed during World War II. Revisionist scholars have presented evidence, which "exterminationists" have not been able to refute, showing that there was no German program to exterminate Europe's Jews, and that the estimate of six million Jewish wartime dead is an irresponsible exaggeration. The Holocaust - the alleged extermination of some six million Jews (most of them by gassing) - is a hoax and should be recognized as such by Christians and all informed, honest and truthful men everywhere. Here are the reasons that have impressed me as particularly persuasive in coming to my own conclusion that the Revisionist view of the Holocaust story is the correct one: - There is no convincing or substantial evidence for the allegation of mass killings in gas chambers in the wartime German camps. Careful investigation - in particular that carried out by American engineer Fred Leuchter - has thoroughly discredited the "gas chamber" extermination claims. - The most reliable statistics available cannot be reconciled with the legendary "six million" figure. The best evidence indicates that no more than a million, or perhaps a million and a half, European Jews perished from all causes during the war years. - Neither the major Jewish organizations in the United States, nor the wartime Allied governments, nor the International Red Cross, nor the Vatican acted as if they seriously believed the wartime extermination propaganda. - Although the German government kept extensive and detailed records of its wartime Jewish policy, not a single document has ever been found which substantiates or even refers to an extermination program or policy. Instead, the voluminous German records confiscated by the Allies at the end of the war clearly show that the German "final solution" program was one of emigration and deportation, not extermination. [Photograph captioned, "Rev. Herman Otten speaking at the 1989 IHR Conference."] - Even prominent Jewish "exterminationist" historians now acknowledge that the stories of gassings and extermination in camps in Germany proper are not true, in spite of the fact that such claims were once seriously made, particularly at the great Nuremberg Trial of 1945-1946. - The Holocaust story now centers on just six former camps in Poland. The so-called "evidence" presented to prove mass exterminations in these camps is qualitatively no better than the now discredited "evidence" once cited for extermination in the camps in Germany proper. - Much of the co-called "evidence" presented by "exterminationists" over the years has already been thoroughly discredited. For example, the well-known horrific photographs of piles of corpses taken in camps in western Germany at the end of the war are now acknowledged to be photos of victims of disease and malnutrition who perished as indirect victims of the war in the final weeks and months of the conflict. Also, so-called "confessions" - such as those of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss - have been shown to be untruthful and extracted by torture. Many of the official reports and testimonies presented as "evidence" by the prosecution in the Nuremberg trials have since been shown to be lies. - The fact that so many Jews "survived" German rule during the war - many of them even in so-called "extermination" centers such as Auschwitz- Birkenau - is enough to show that there was no German program or policy to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The Holocaust is a hoax. The time has come for Christian scholars and pastors to recognize this, and to stop perpetrating a hoax as the truth. A Christian is not free to believe and promote a lie about any person or nation. True Christian scholars should at least read what the Revisionists write. Many have said to us: "What difference does it make? The truth of the Holocaust is of no concern to Christians." Nonsense! A Christian is not free to believe and promote a lie about any person or nation. A Christian is guided by truth and facts, not emotions and majority opinion. If Christians can accept as historical fact the Holocaust, despite all the powerful evidence that it is a hoax, what does that say about their ability to evaluate evidence? What about their scholarship? Is it any wonder that some Revisionists, who have made a careful study of the Holocaust, question the scholarship of Christians, so many of whom swallow as absolute truth what is clearly a hoax? I have been told numerous times, even by theologians who claim to be orthodox: "I don't care whether it was six million or one Jew, even one is too many." Such an attitude shows contempt for the truth. A Christian is to show true love, and the Apostle Paul tells us that love is "happy with the truth." (1 Cor. 13:6) The writing of Proverbs tells us: "Speak out for those who can't speak, for the rights of those who are doomed. Talk up, render fair decisions, and defend the rights of the poor and needy people." (Proverbs 31:9) A Christian bases his faith upon facts and absolute truth, not feelings and emotion. A Christian recognizes that only God is all-knowing. A Christian is willing to listen to evidence and evaluate various viewpoints. He doesn't close his mind to the facts and evidence. He doesn't start out with the assumption that the Jew is right and the German is wrong, or that the Jew is wrong and the German is right. He looks at the evidence. Those who say they don't care if it was six million or one are showing a despicable attitude toward truth. They are saying: "We don't care about the truth." Such an attitude is sinful and worldly. Is it any wonder that so many then go on to act as it they don't care about another man's wife or property? The truthfulness of the Holocaust is a moral issue. Those who maintain that the Germans exterminated some six million Jews, most of them by gassing, are seeing to it that the Christian Church can no longer avoid speaking out. Churches are being pushed, as never before, to have special services commemorating the Holocaust. A Christian is ready to change his opinion if the evidence shows he is wrong. Numerous times we have invited "exterminationists" to refute the Revisionists. Some tell us that we have not shown love to the Jews, and that we are being racists and anti-Semitic when we publish articles by Revisionists questioning the Holocaust, and when we insist that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. We have repeatedly emphasized in many editorials that the Bible teaches that there is no special chosen race. All those - regardless of color, race, nationality, sex, wealth, et cetera - who trust in the merits of Jesus Christ alone for their salvation are God's chosen people and will go to heaven. Those who tell Jews, Muslims, and any other non-Christian that they worship the true God, and can get to heaven without Christ, are not showing true love to the Jews and other non-Christians. The so-called "fact" of the Holocaust is being used to deport innocent men from this country who, as teenagers, served with the German armed forces. In some cases they have been sent back to certain death in Communist lands. The [US government's] Office of Special Investigation is using the Holocaust as an excuse to force from the United States even such a reputable person as the scientist Arthur Rudolph. Israel is using the "fact" of the Holocaust as an excuse to execute John Demjanjuk, an innocent Ukrainian-American. "The Jewish people have a long score to settle with the Ukrainian people" says Dov Ben-Meir, a deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset [parliament]. According to this top Israeli official, "unaccounted numbers" of Ukrainians "collaborated with the Nazi regime, especially in the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Jews." The "fact" of the Holocaust is being used by some to deny that Christianity is the only true religion, or that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Israel is using the "fact" of the Holocaust as an excuse to kill Palestinians in Israel. This slaughter, together with the anti-scriptural notions of the Israel-first Millennialists, almost all of whom believe in the Holocaust, could lead to another bloody war. The Holocaust is not some innocent hoax, such as children's fairy tales that entertain and have no evil consequences. The "chosen people" and "Holocaust" myths make mission work among non-Christians far more difficult. Arabs, who are told that the Bible teaches that their land belongs to the Jews, find it more difficult to believe what the Bible says about Christ. ___________________________________________________________________________ "Victims Deserve Better" JOSEPH SOBRAN I haven't been to the new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, but even a _Washington Post_ reporter was shocked by what he describes its "outrageous" anti-Christian propaganda. The exhibition apparently dates anti-Semitism from the birth of Christ. And of course the implication of the Museum is that mass murder is worse when its victims are Jews. Some surprisingly critical notes have been struck in the reviews of the Museum. Kay Larson, art critic for _New York_ magazine, objects that "the Germans depicted here ... are almost exclusively Nazis.... Most American children who endure the walk-through will think of Germans as Nazi pigs." She continues: The Jews endured the most dementedly calculated and well-documented - but hardly the only - case. To separate the Nazi evil from other evils is understandable but Eurocentric. It trivializes all suffering but its own.... It awards special, extra-human stature to the victims. Nothing that occurs inside Israel can be wrong, because Jews were gassed at Auschwitz. And so people set themselves apart from, against, and above others. She has caught the note of most Holocaust rhetoric: intense self-absorption. This is a human reaction, and it can be excused up to a point. That point comes when those whose rights have been violated begin disregarding others' rights, as when Jewish apologists for Israel feel persecuted by criticism of Israel's brutality toward non-Jews. Even many pro-Israel Jews feel uneasy about the Museum being in America, on government land, paid for with tax money. The implication of its presence is that all Gentiles, especially Christians, need to be instructed, to have their consciousness raised, even to be made to feel guilty about Jewish suffering. As if we didn't know that murder and persecution are wrong! As if Israel were a moral model for *us*! In the same way, the implication of the word "anti-Semitism" is that the chief moral test for anyone is whether he has the correct attitude toward Jews. And again, this is understandable - but also very narrow. Murdering Ukrainians is every bit as evil as murdering Jews, after all. But why should we even have to say that? The wrong lesson is being drawn. You would think that the evil of Hitler was mere anti-Semitism as such, rather than mass murder. But if anti-Semitism were confined to country-club snobbery, even Jews wouldn't mind it too much. The real evil is the use of the state as an instrument of death. Government, perverted from it modest uses, can magnify every crime unimaginably. That is the real "lesson of the Holocaust," the lesson our time still refuses to learn. We think it's only the Hitler or Stalin version of the superstate that is wrong. But think how America's conduct in World War II would have appeared to our ancestors. It's hard for us to feel the sheer monstrosity of bombing cities. I recently heard some interesting testimony on this point. During that war the US government commissioned a series of propaganda films from Frank Capra, which were made under the collective title "Why We Fight." One of them, "The Battle for China," describes the barbarity of the "Japs," also called "Nips," and mocked them for their "grinning yellow faces." Among the horrors perpetrated by the Japs was the unprecedented atrocity of bombing cities, killing civilians by the thousands! Of course Capra and his staff didn't know that the US government was planning to do exactly that to Japanese and German cities. In their innocence, they assumed that only a savage, alien race could have stooped to such barbarism. But we have supped full with horrors. Evil bores us. Its statistical extremes have long since lost their interest, and there is something ritually formulaic in the demands that we profess belief in, and abhorrence toward, Nazi and Communist abominations. "Holocaust denial" has become the big thought crime, denounced by Christians who are quite tolerant of those who deny the Redemption. No similar opprobrium, by the way, attaches to Gulag denial. After all, nobody who really believes a thing wants to force others to profess belief in it. Sincerity never demands hypocrisy. Even the word "Holocaust" has come to seem a polemical appropriation of human suffering that verges on the indecent. I remember an old Jewish woman I slightly knew who had a number tattooed on her wrist. That told me all I needed to know about Hitler, and it would be pedantic to wonder whether a regime that was willing to brand Jews like cattle meant to kill them all. But it would have seemed morally crass to call what that woman had been through as a girl "the Holocaust": It's beginning to sound like a brand name, of special utility to glib hawkers. All the victims of World War II, including Jews, deserve more respect than that. ___________________________________________________________________________ "Examine All the Evidence" LOUIS VEZELIS On April 22, 1993, an ugly, monstrous edifice was dedicated in Washington, DC. It is a grotesque museum dedicated to the victims of evil. The only problem is that the majority of people throughout the world have been conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to react irrationally to predetermined stimuli. Those who refuse are summarily isolated from the rest of the dehumanized human herd through use of meaningless but emotionally-charged epithets. It is quite easy to observe which newspapers are subservient to this modern day hoax. The subject is the so-called "Holocaust Museum" built on public land "generously" donated by the US government... Insulting terminology in an editorial appearing in the left-wing, pro-Zionist, anti-Christian _Democrat and Chronicle_ [newspaper of Rochester, New York] introduces the reader to the most obvious abuse of logic and good taste. But, logic and good taste have systematically been expunged from the American mind during a period of more than thirty years. Well-informed American citizens demonstrated [in Washington, DC, on April 22] against the historically false accusations constantly made against the German people and other nationalities whose only real crime was resisting the international gangsters who facetiously call their brand of exploitation "Communism." The _Democrat and Chronicle_ editorial starts out: The mindless folks who were waving signs at the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, last week claiming that the Holocaust never happened merely demonstrate why the museum is so important: to preserve the facts, before they disappear in the mists of history. These "mindless folks" include none other than well-educated professors and professional historians, investigative reporters and, in general, are among the most descent people of a civilized society. It is their *right and duty* to examine all the evidence, and draw the truthful conclusions concerning what really happened in history. There is already a strong indication that those who promote the Holocaust story are afraid of the truth. That can only explain the need for ridiculing those who seek only to present the entire matter before an open world forum of unbiased and unprejudiced investigators. Because the preponderance of objective and factual evidence shows the promoters of the Holocaust story to be libelous frauds, sneak tactics and irrational emotionalism must be used. We are concerned for the truth. Only those who are not of the truth must resort to lies and bloodshed. Facts by themselves do not constitute truth. Truth is in the judgment... The Hollywood cosmetics exploiting the unfortunate victims of death do not prove anything. For example, to film or photograph dead bodies, and then label them according to one's political need is a travesty of justice and truth beyond the capability of morally responsible individuals. Facts must be correctly interpreted before they can tell something of truth. Another example is the famous "Anne Frank Diary" which has been foisted upon the American people at all levels. We all wept at the Hollywood tear-jerker action on the silver screen. Decent people reacted as expected by the unscrupulous falsifiers of fact. It has come to the attention of more and more people that this diary is a fraud. Yes, it has been proven to be fake. Public school facilities are periodically used to foist this fraud upon unsuspecting citizenry to re-enforce the psychological brainwashing. Anne Frank was not fake: She really did live. But everything else about her life is a melodramatic, money-making operation to overwhelm the world with hatred for a nation... No one says anything comparable about the children brutally murdered by the Soviets when they occupied the Baltic States in 1940, and Germany in 1945. A French Professor whose love for truth is greater than his love for fame and life, Robert Faurisson, has proven that the alleged "diary" of Anne Frank could not have been written by her... While the American people are being lulled into very dangerous apathy by being fed psycho-babble, a real holocaust, including child murder, is taking place every day in occupied Palestine... Could it be that someone is trying to put a guilt complex on the American people so they will not dare raise a loud voice of protest against greater evils? ___________________________________________________________________________ Herman Otten is a Lutheran pastor and editor-publisher of the weekly _Christian News_ of New Haven, Missouri. This commentary is excerpted from his address at the Ninth IHR Conference. The complete text is published in the Fall 1989 Journal. Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer and Critic-at-Large for _National Review_. This commentary is taken from his "Washington Watch" column in the May 13, 1993, issue of The Wanderer, a conservative Roman Catholic weekly. Louis Vezelis, O.F.M., is editor of _The Seraph_, a traditionalist Roman Catholic monthly published by the Franciscan Friars (Order of St. Francis of Assisi) of Rochester, New York. This commentary is from an editorial by Bishop Vezelis in the May 1993 issue of _The Seraph_. ___________________________________________________________________________ [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was scanned by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! ___________________________________________________________ | | | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | |___________________________________________________________| Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" [end of file] -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Mon Sep 20 23:19:17 PDT 1993 Article: 27596 of alt.activism Xref: oneb soc.history:16604 alt.censorship:13068 alt.activism:27596 alt.revisionism:3899 alt.discrimination:8957 alt.conspiracy:19760 alt.politics.correct:5286 alt.journalism.criticism:712 talk.politics.misc:94021 talk.politics.mideast:34429 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: Re: The Holocaust Issue: Three Christian Views Date: 20 Sep 1993 10:19:15 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 12 Message-ID: <27komj$p9j@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com I am posting to correct an error in my last post. The article entitled, "The Holocaust Issue: Thre Christian Views", was not printed in the Winter 1992-93 issue of the IHR _Journal_, but rather in Volume 13, Number 5 -- the September/October issue. Minor error but I wanted to correct it. Thanks, -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Mon Sep 20 23:20:48 PDT 1993 Article: 27597 of alt.activism Xref: oneb soc.history:16605 alt.censorship:13069 alt.activism:27597 alt.revisionism:3900 alt.discrimination:8958 alt.conspiracy:19761 alt.politics.correct:5287 alt.journalism.criticism:713 talk.politics.misc:94022 talk.politics.mideast:34430 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: In Europe: Further Legal Persecution of Revisionists Date: 20 Sep 1993 10:53:12 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 253 Message-ID: <27kqm8$qni@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com >From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): In Europe: Further Legal Persecution of Revisionists ___________________________________________________________________________ German University Professor Charged for Holocaust Remarks A respected German university professor has been charged with "popular incitement" because he told some colleagues six years ago that the Holocaust story is not true. Rainer Ballreich, who teaches "biomechanics" at the sports institute of the University of Frankfurt, reportedly told a few colleagues at a 1987 meeting of the German Sports League that the story of six million murdered Jews is a lie, and that most concentration camp deaths were due to disease and malnutrition. The alleged remarks were first made public last March in an open letter by one of those present. (_Frankfurter Neue Presse_, March 26, 1993 p. 18.) Ballreich, 62, has a respected name in his profession. From 1974 to 1988 he was a member of the scholarly commission of the Federal Committee for Sports Achievement of the German Sports League. Until 1988 he was chairman of the "Movement and Training" section of the Federal Institute for Sports Science, which is supervised jointly the German Interior Ministry and the German Sports League. Until last year Professor Ballreich was a member of the credentials committee of the Federal Institute for Sports Science. Ballreich denies the charge against him. The case is further complicated because there is a five year statute of limitations for the crime. ___________________________________________________________________________ Teacher Faces Legal Action for Denial of Mass Gassings A German teacher faces dismissal and legal action for his rejection of claims of mass killings in gas chambers during the Second World War. Hans-Jurgen Witzsch teaches German and history at the metropolitan school of economics in Nuremberg. The 53-year-old educator (Oberstudienrat) and former city council member, is also chairman of a local revisionist group. In January he sent a letter to Bavarian Radio expressing support for the revisionist views of British historian David Irving. Witzsch wrote: For me, along with many other historians, there is no longer any reasonable doubt that the claim of gas chambers as extermination facilities during the National Socialist period is an invention of wartime atrocity propaganda, and a claim for which there is no real proof. Because of his revisionist views about the Second World War, Witzsch was suspended in 1981 from teaching at the city's metropolitan school of economics. However, the suspension was overturned on appeal to a court, and he resumed teaching at the school in the fall of 1991. (_Nurnberger Nachrichten_, March 26, p. 11.) ___________________________________________________________________________ Swiss Teacher Suspended for Holocaust Book Because he wrote a book that disputes claims of wartime extermination gas chambers, a Swiss teacher has been summarily suspended from his position. Jurgen Graf was suspended as a teacher of Latin and French at a secondary school in Therwil (near Basel) in late March shortly after the publication of his book, _Der Holocaust auf dem Prufstand: Augenzeugenberichte versus Naturgesetze_ ("The Holocaust on the Test Stand: Eyewitness Reports versus the Laws of Nature"). The 112-page softcover work provides a well-organized introduction to the Holocaust issue from a revisionist perspective. (This book is also mentioned in the July-August 1993 _Journal_, p. 25.) Graf distributed copies of his book, along with a four-page cover letter, to numerous history teachers, professors, journalists and political figures across Switzerland. Graf says that he was very much aware of the likely repercussions of the publication of his book, and fully expected that official action of some kind would be taken against him. "I had to expect to be suspended from school service," he says. "De facto," this suspension is "a dismissal without notice." Someone like Graf "obviously" cannot be a teacher, an official of the Swiss Federal Education and Cultural Affairs Authority has declared. Graf's book is "absolutely not open to discussion." During the year and a half that he worked as a teacher in Therwil, Graf was well regarded by both colleagues and students as an "involved and competent teacher." He did not speak about the Holocaust issue in his classroom sessions. (_Basellandschaftliche Zeitung_, March 24.) Graf, who was born in Switzerland in 1951, strongly rejects allegations that he is a neo-Nazi or an anti-Semite. "I respect the truth," he explains. "I can no longer live with the gas chamber lie." Graf readily acknowledges that Europe's Jews suffered terribly under German rule during the war years. "Every decent person strongly condemns these brutal persecutions," he says. It was only after intensive study - including the reading of more than 150 books - that Graf came to the conclusion in 1991 that the generally accepted Holocaust story is a product of wartime propaganda. There were no extermination gas chambers, and no systematic extermination of Jews during the war years, he writes. A second and much more detailed work by Graf appeared in June. _Der Holocaust-Schwindel: Vom Werden and Vergehen des Jahrhundertbetrugs_ ("The Holocaust Swindle: The Development and Passing of the Hoax of the Century") is a copiously referenced 250-page softcover book. A letter by Dr. Robert Faurisson serves as a preface to the work. Graf promises to openly defy a new Swiss "Anti-Racism" law that provides for heavy fines or imprisonment for those who "deny the genocide or the crimes against humanity." As we go to press, Graf's two books are still available from: Guideon Burg Verlag, Postfach 52, CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland. ___________________________________________________________________________ Doubts About Holocaust Story Permissible, German Judge Rules In a remarkable verdict, a German court has found a key Revisionist activist innocent of the crime of "denying" the Holocaust extermination story. On May 25, Munich court judge Florian Schenk declared defendant Ewald Althans innocent of charges arising from statements he made during a 1992 television interview expressing doubt about claims of systematic extermination of Jews during the Second World War. In a vigorously delivered and evidently persuasive defense plea, made by Althans himself, the gifted 27-year-old cited the drastically divergent figures of Auschwitz victims, as well as the findings of Jewish American revisionist David Cole. (For more about Cole and his work, see the March-April 1993 _Journal_.) While German law "of course" makes it a crime to *deny* mass extermination, said Judge Schenk, expressing *doubt* about extermination or mass gassings is not forbidden. Althans had "merely doubted" the Holocaust story, declared Schenk, who said that expressions of doubt are necessary in order to arrive at the truth. The German law that makes it a crime to "deny" the Holocaust story could be a dangerous restriction of freedom of expression, he added. Schenk also criticized the behavior of the police during a demonstration by the "Ecological Left" on January 16 against Althans' Munich headquarters. Schenk expressed disgust with the behavior of the police, who escorted the leftist mob to the site, and then stood by while the hoodlums carried out their crimes of violence. Althans is a major distributor of Revisionist writings in Germany. He works closely with German-Canadian publisher and publicist Ernst Zundel. State prosecutors are appealing the verdict, which Althans called "phenomenal" and a "splendid victory." ___________________________________________________________________________ Health Care Worker Sentenced for Distibuting Revisionist Paper A German court has sentenced a 30-year-old health care worker to four months imprisonment, suspended for three years, for distributing copies of a tabloid paper that rejects the Holocaust extermination story. In March, a court in Hameln found the defendant, identified in newspaper reports only as "Rainer W.," guilty of defamation, popular incitement, and incitement to racial hatred. The defendant, who works in the nearby town of Bad Pyrmont, freely acknowledged distributing 300 copies of an issue of _Remer Depesche_, a tabloid paper published by retired German general Otto Ernst Remer. Rainer W. expressed his support for the views of Remer's paper, and spoke in court of the "Six Million Lie." A newspaper report on the case expressed astonishment that he felt no sense of guilt for his "crime." (_Bad Pyrmonter Nachrichten_, March 19.) _Remer Depesche_ is considered particularly "incendiary," the local newspaper reported, because it claims that there was no systematic wartime extermination of Jews. (For more about Remer and his paper, see the March-April _Journal_, pp. 29-30.) Citing the right of freedom of expression guaranteed in Germany's "Basic Law," Rainer W. told the court that he was legally entitled to distribute the _Remer Depesche_. State prosecuting attorney Nikolaus Borchers sharply rejected this argument, insisting that the right does not apply in this case. The right of freedom of expression, said Borchers, is not unlimited and cannot be abused to libel others. The "persecution of the Jews," he went on to explain, has been "historically proven," and is not open to discussion. Calling Rainer W. a "criminal by conviction," the prosecuting attorney argued that the public must be protected from his activities. Borchers asked the court to punish him with a fine of 2,000 marks (about $1,200), and six months imprisonment, suspended for three years. Rainer W. rejected an offer by Borchers to reduce the sentence if he promised to "improve." The defendant was encouraged by the presence of many friends and supporters, who filled the courtroom. He is appealing the sentence. ___________________________________________________________________________ [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was scanned by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Banished CPU supports Freedom of Speech! ___________________________________________________________ | | | For 300-9600 bps (3 lines w/V.32) call: (503) 232-5783 | | For 14400 bps (2 lines w/V.32bis) call: (503) 232-6566 | |___________________________________________________________| Sysop: Maynard "the Main Nerd" [end of file] -Dan Gannon -- dgannon@techbook.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81) From oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail Sat Sep 25 19:57:07 PDT 1993 Article: 4091 of alt.revisionism Xref: oneb soc.history:16942 alt.censorship:13333 alt.activism:27849 alt.revisionism:4091 alt.discrimination:9066 alt.conspiracy:19994 alt.politics.correct:5400 alt.journalism.criticism:780 talk.politics.misc:94861 talk.politics.mideast:34635 Path: oneb!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!utnut!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!techbook.com!techbook.com!not-for-mail From: dgannon@techbook.techbook.com (Dan Gannon) Newsgroups: soc.history,alt.censorship,alt.activism,alt.revisionism,alt.discrimination,alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.correct,alt.journalism.criticism,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.mideast Subject: "The Adventure of Revisionism", by Robert Faurisson Date: 24 Sep 1993 00:52:01 -0700 Organization: TECHbooks - Public Access Lines: 130 Message-ID: <27u8v1$on9@techbook.techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: techbook.techbook.com >From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 13, Number 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): The Adventure of Revisionism ROBERT FAURISSON With rare exceptions, a Revisionist researcher is not an intellectual closeted in his study. Even if he were to choose a hermit's life, society would soon see to the end of his isolation. To begin with, a Revisionist must be willing to travel wherever his research requires, and to carry out investigations on the spot. And because he'll receive no help from the authorities - on the contrary - the Revisionist must learn to outwit his adversaries and overcome a hundred obstacles to achieve his goals. Life itself becomes his teacher. He must establish and cultivate contacts with fellow Revisionists around the globe, for no researcher can isolate himself from the work of others. Speaking for myself, Revisionism has brought me to many lands, in particular the United States of America, Canada and Germany, as well as Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland, and a few other countries. (Historical Revisionism is also growing in Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Japan, Tunisia, South Africa, Iran and Peru.) In cultivating these contacts, one discovers the ways that different mentalities - Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Latin, Arab, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and atheist - confront one of the mightiest taboos in history: the Jewish "Holocaust." Revisionism, which lays bare the taboo, thus uncovers differences in outlook as well. It reveals, too, what individuals are made of and how institutions actually function. I like to watch the face of a man or a woman, an oldster or a teenager, as he or she trembles upon hearing, for the first time, the sacrilegious words of a Revisionist. With some, the face colors and the eyes light up: curiosity is aroused. Others pale; the person who believed in his own tolerance discovers his bigotry, and the one who had easily opened his heart quickly slams it shut. Confronted by Revisionism, institutions likewise show themselves for what they are: products of circumstantial arrangements on which time has conferred an aura of respectability. The judiciary, for instance, claims to defend justice (a virtue!) or to uphold the law (a necessity), and would have us believe that, as a group, judges care for truth. But, when a judge finds himself obliged to try a Revisionist, how odd to watch as he jettisons the scruples he and his colleagues claim to honor! When faced with a Revisionist, there exists for a judge neither faith, nor law, nor right. In confronting Revisionism, the judiciary shows just how rickety it is. ___________________________________________________________________________ Robert Faurisson, Europe's foremost Holocaust Revisionist scholar, is a frequent _Journal_ contributor. This essay was translated by IHR editor Theodore J. O'Keefe. ___________________________________________________________________________ As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court. The Revisionist lives dangerously. Police, judges and journalists lurk in wait for him. He may end up in prison - or the hospital. He risks economic ruin for himself and his family. Little of that matters to him. He lives, he dreams, he imagines. He feels that he is free. It's not that he cherishes illusions about the impact of his findings. These frighten everyone; they are too much in contradiction to accepted knowledge. These findings strike at two great human mysteries: the general mystery of fear, and the specific mystery of the need for belief, belief in something, no matter what. One historian, after finishing a five-volume _History of Mankind_, was once asked: "After all is said and done, what is the chief motivation of human history?" After a long hesitation, he replied: "Fear." There is no question that fear is an overwhelming factor, and that it assumes in man, more than in beast, the most striking, and sometimes the most ludicrous, forms, no less than the most deceptive disguises. In most men, but certainly not in all, the mystery of fear combines with another mystery: that is, as already indicated, the need, the desire, or the will to believe for the sake of believing. For this there is a saying in English that we lack in French: "the will to believe." Celine said: "The fury to lie and TO BELIEVE spreads like the itch." ("La rage de mentir ET DE CROIRE s'attrape comme la gale.") Before him, La Fontaine noted: "Man is frozen to truths. He is on fire for lies." ("L'homme est de glace aux verites. Il est de feu pour les mensonges.") Revisionism can correct history, but it will correct nothing of human nature. On the other hand, the future will prove the Revisionists, as writers of history, were right. There is already too much evidence to show that the progress of Revisionism is inexorable. Revisionism is destined for a place in history as "the great intellectual adventure of the end of the century." [end of article] [Reprinted by permission from _The Journal of Historical Review_, P.O. Box 1306, Torrance, CA 90505, USA. Subscription rate: $40 per year, domestic. $50 per year, foreign.] This article was scanned by the System Operator of the "Banished CPU" computer bulletin board system, which is located in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. 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