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Is the “Diary” of Anne Frank Genuine? Author’s preface to the Italian edition
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Is the “Diary” of Anne Frank Genuine? Author’s preface to the Italian edition

Cesare Saletta, to whom I am indebted for the present translation, is a man of distinguished intellect. I thank him for his work and gladly accede to his wish that I bring forth a few clarifications on the lot that has befallen my analysis of the alleged diary of Anne Frank. This analysis, if I…

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My revisionist method

[Essay adapted from the talk of May 29, 2000 at the 13th IHR Conference in Irvine, California. Published in the Journal of Historical Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (March-April 2002, p. 7-14]   I’m not accustomed to receiving compliments and congratulations in my country, douce France.[1] Only a few days ago, in Le Figaro [May 26, 2000], one Gérard…

Valérie Igounet’s book on the “history of Holocaust denial in France”
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Valérie Igounet’s book on the “history of Holocaust denial in France”

If there existed, as is said, a system of justice equal for all, then Valérie Igounet and the director of the publishing house Les éditions du Seuil would find themselves seated together on the hard bench reserved for defendants in the 17th chamber of the Paris correctional court.[1] And as will be seen further on, Jean-Claude…

The Mufti has spoken!
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The Mufti has spoken!

[from Ingrid Rimland-Zündel’s “ZGram” of March 30, 2000]   Le Monde of March 28, 2000 reports that the Great Mufti of Jerusalem, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, accused, on the 25th of March, Israel of having exaggerated the extent of the “Holocaust” in order to get international support. This is, I think,…

Auschwitz I: Not “reconstruction” but falsification
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Auschwitz I: Not “reconstruction” but falsification

LETTER (for publication) to Mark WEBER and Greg RAVEN, Institute for Historical Review   I deplore the fact that, in its September-December 1999 issue, the Journal insists on saying that the Auschwitz main camp “gas chamber” visited by millions of tourists over the decades is “actually a postwar reconstruction” (photo caption, p. 13), or simply that…

David Irving, at the moment
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David Irving, at the moment

Although he himself has never undertaken research into “the Holocaust” of the Jews, the British historian David Irving is subject, intermittently, to promising bursts of revisionism. In 1988, at the second trial of Ernst Zündel in Toronto, he affirmed his high esteem for the Leuchter Report, the study which concluded that the existence of homicidal…