DC Dave analyzes Andy Rooney

DC Dave has sent us a link to his analysis of some of Andy Rooney's bellicose utterances.

Ernst Zundel charged in Germany

Ernst Zundel appeared in a German court today for his arraignment on the charge of denying the Holocaust. Denying the Holocaust is a criminal offense in Germany. If Zundel is found guilty of inciting hatred, he could face up to five years in jail. Last week, politically-correct Canadian Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais created the pretext for deporting Zundel by ruling that Zundel had links to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. "Mr. Zundel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security but also a threat to the international community of nations," Blais said in justifying his improper ruling.

Canadian authorities deport Zundel to Germany

Canada Tuesday deported Holocaust denier and former Tennessee resident Ernst Zundel to his native Germany. Once there, he is expected to be arrested on charges of inciting hatred via the Internet. German officials have said he would be arrested for decades of anti-Semitic activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust, which is a crime in Germany.

Ernst Zundel set for deportation to Germany

Ernst Zundel has abandoned his fight to stay in Canada and is slated to be deported to Germany as early as Tuesday, his lawyer said yesterday. In a bitter denunciation of the Canadian legal system, lawyer Peter Lindsay said there was no point in trying to remedy the "horrible unfairness" to which Zundel had been subjected.

New counter added

We've added Statcounter code to each page to help track visitors. It's fairly sophisticated and fast, and it doesn't clutter up the page. It's nothing sinister: We just need to get some idea how effective we are at getting the word out.

Site clean-up

Removed a bunch of dead links. Sorry it took so long. Isn't Linklint wonderful?

Global Anti-Semitism Review Act

President Bush signs into law the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act (S. 2292), stablishing a special department within the U.S. State Department to monitor global anti-Semitism, reporting annually to Congress. Because attempting to get at the facts of "the Holocaust" has been deemed anti-Semitic (along with any criticism of the actions of the State of Israel), expect instances of "anti-Semitism" to be on the rise.

Site changes

We have converted the site to use style sheets more heavily, discarding the tables we had been using for positioning. For some, this means the site may display oddly, but these pages all validate to Web standards, which is becoming increasingly important. If your browser doesn't display these pages properly, you should consider switching.

Also, frequent visitors will notice some minor housekeeping around the site, as some of the older, dead files are gone.

1st Annual Halloween Contest

Introducing our new Contest section. The 1st Annual David McCalden Most Macabre Halloween Holocaust Tale Challenge, in honor of David McCalden, ends Halloween, so get your entries in ASAP. History is not just fun -- it's rewarding!

Astonishing interview with Benny Morris

Added the astonishing interview with left-wing Jewish historian Benny Morris. As you read this interview, imagine the interviewee is -- say -- Joseph Goebbels, and mentally replace "Israel" and "Israeli" with "Germany" and Germany, and "Palestinian" with "Jew." Students of history will love Morris' using of the Stalinesque, "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." If Morris isn't an apologist for the actions taken by Third Reich Germany before and during the war, we don't know who is.

Germany Must Perish!

We've added Theodore Kaufman's 1941 book Germany Must Perish! This book and its positive reception in the United States made a big impression on Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, as it confirmed their view that there was a global effort by Jews to crush Germany and National Socialism.

Jurgen Graf looks at Jewish losses

We've added Jewish population losses in the German sphere of influence during the World War II, by Jürgen Graf.

HTML and CSS standards

Bringing more order out of the chaos. Switching from near-total reliance on Adobe GoLive to doing most of the coding and refurbishing with BBEdit, which allows much better validation of HTML and CSS. This meant dumping the headers and footers which were in non-compliant GoLive code, and replacing them with compliant BBEdit persistant includes. This massive undertaking did have the good side-effect of making it only a bit more work to replace the rather pedestrian navigation scheme, with a pure CSS menu system. If your browser does not properly render the menu system, upgrade to a standards-compliant browser! This may seem high-handed, coming as it does from the 9,345,987th-most-visited site on the web, but really -- standards must evolve, and how are they to prosper if we don't adopt them?

Order from chaos

Slowly bringing order out of the chaos: Formatting files in accordance with the styles (!?) we've set. The whipping (see below) continues.

"Directory" moved

We moved the master file directory up to the "root" level for tidyness' sake. We apologize to all of those who had it bookmarked. (Since removed.)

Site updates

We haven't been keeping the "what's new" page up-to-date. So what's new? In the last three years, some new material has been added -- especially to the Remarkable Nonsense, Admissions against Interest, and Documents sections, and we've added a whole new section on Holocaust satire. Got a great search engine going, and installed it on TOC pages throughout the site for ease of access (see above, as an example). Because we have been gathering tidbits to add to the site all along, however, we have a huge backlog of items to whip into shape. Therefore, if you see formatting irregulalities or items that don't seem to have received the full attention they should have before posting, it's due to the crush of time and the great number of tasks that need to be addressed.

New and revised files

Replaced the article on "Defining 'the Holocaust'" with a slightly newer version that now has sources. Also, added an article written some time ago comparing and contrasting different demographic studies of total Jewish deaths during the Second World War.

New location

We've moved the non-IHR materials on this site to a new location, due to Kaiwan's announced plan to shut down operations by the end of June.

New website for IHR materials

We've moved all files from the Institute for Historical Review to the new Institute for Historical Review website.

Zundel citations

We've added a file that has been around for awhile, but somehow never made it to the Web: a listing of media mentions of Ernst Zündel, who has been persecuted in Canada for more than ten years for his views on the Holocaust. Arranged by date, this is an invaluable reference for anyone studying the Zündel's case, or the methods of censorship used by anti-revisionists.