HOLOCAUST
DENIAL Institute for
Historical Review The California-based IHR, which split with
Willis Carto in 1993, remains the world's
single most important outlet for Holocaust-denial
propaganda. While the IHR seeks to gain credibility
by working under the guise of scholarship and
impartiality, many of its staffers and Editorial
Advisory Committee members often participate in
pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish activities. Current
director Mark Weber was an activist in the
National Alliance during the 1970s, and editorial
advisor Robert Faurisson was convicted three
times of violating French hate-crime laws because
of his anti-Semitic activities. Other active
participants in IHR include David Irving,
the leading Holocaust denier in England[*],
and Ernst Zündel, Canada's most notorious
neo-Nazi. In addition to distributing a wide array of
Holocaust-denying books, IHR publishes a bi-monthly
magazine, The Journal of Historical Review
(JHR), and organizes periodic "revisionist"
conferences. At a 1983 IHR conference, British
neo-Nazi Keith Thompson's declaration that
"if, in the end, the Holocaust did take place, then
so much the better!" was met with thunderous
applause. From 1996 to 1998, IHR Associate Director
Greg Raven housed extensive IHR materials at
his "personal" Web site, which he claims is "not
supported, sponsored, or financed by the Institute
for Historical Review." To head off charges that
the materials published by his site are
anti-Semitic, Raven makes the following
disingenuous statement on his Home Page: If you find
material on this Web site that is untrue, please
tell me and I will change it. If you find
material on this Web site that is racist or
hateful, please tell me and I will remove it.
Raven's "personal" site continues to exist,
though he moved all of his IHR materials to a
separate, "official" IHR site in March 1998. The IHR Web site contains hundreds of online
"revisionist" pamphlets, books, and articles, as
well as a complete index of the JHR. Among IHR's
leaflets, one finds "Auschwitz myths and facts,"
which claims that "Auschwitz was not an
extermination center" and that "the story of mass
killings in 'gas chambers' is a myth." Many JHR
articles are reprinted in their entirety, including
"Is The Diary of Anne Frank genuine?" Additionally, IHR publishes the full text of a
few books at its site, such as Did Six Million
Really Die? by British "revisionist" Richard
Harwood. Explaining why it is so urgent for
neo-Nazis to suppress the reality of the Holocaust,
Harwood complains in his book that awareness of the
Holocaust overshadows Nazi "ideals" such as
"nationalism" and "racialism" while promoting "the
need for international tolerance and
understanding."
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