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Category Archives: Holocaust
For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
An Amazon customer review: This is the only book I’ve ever read about George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, although I have read other works on the hard right movement. It was a very revealing, but disturbing portrait … Continue reading
Jailed For A Decade For Having Wrong Opinions About The Holocaust
Nazi Julius Streicher was put to death at Nuremberg after WWII for his opinions. Wikipedia: “In essence, prosecutors contended that Streicher’s articles and speeches were so incendiary that he was an accessory to murder, and therefore as culpable as those … Continue reading
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The Holocaust As Religion
In a May 26 podcast, Richard Spencer says: “The Jews want the Holocaust to be the center of global morality and to have this concept of genocide on everyone’s minds but you can’t have an equal genocide [to the Holocaust]. … Continue reading
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Forward: ‘Is 15 Minutes Enough Time For Trump At Yad Vashem?’
How much time should American presidents be required to spend at Yad Vashem? (Forward) American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …In the late sixties and early seventies, at the same time that … Continue reading
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Mark Oppenheimer: ‘My lesson in free speech: As a Jew, meeting with Holocaust deniers actually left me feeling empowered’
Mark writes an Op/Ed in the LA Times: In 2009, I interviewed Mark Weber and Bradley Smith, two amateur historians notorious for being among the leading Holocaust “revisionists.” Smith is an old-school denier, dubious about the existence of gas chambers, … Continue reading
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Denial (2016)
I enjoyed this movie. “Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.” Deborah Lipstadt is portrayed by a beautiful actress … Continue reading
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White Supremacist Cheers Trump’s ‘De-Judification’ of Holocaust
The Forward writes: Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, … Continue reading
WP: ‘The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.’ Museum condemns alt-right meeting.
How many ways is this story ridiculous? Washington Post: Just south of the national Mall, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum stands as a grim reminder of what the Nazis did. Directly across the Mall from the museum, white nationalists were … Continue reading
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Misuse of the Holocaust
A Jewish friend: People who see the Holocaust where it isn’t and in others who disagree with them are not just annoying, they are untrustworthy. Choosing to be unhinged is not unlike getting high on something that encourages disproportionate and … Continue reading
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Forward: Hollywood Makes Its Case Against ‘Denial’ — Will It Matter?
I hope the side with unlimited funds gets portrayed as the plucky underdog. David Irving could only afford to represent himself as he went up against Deborah Lipstadt’s generously funded legal team. Wikipedia: “Lipstadt hired the British solicitor Anthony Julius … Continue reading
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