David McCalden bio updated

We've expanded and improved the biographical information about David McCalden, given the interest in this year's Halloween contest. Also, we're now making available another one of McCalden's booklets, Exiles from History, which is linked from his biography along with his piece, The Amazing, Rapidly-Shrinking 'Holocaust'. A version of this biographical information is set to appear in an upcoming issue of Bradley Smith's "Smith's Report." A report on our latest Halloween contest is also slated for "Smith's Report."

Germar Rudolf to face charges

German revisionist Germar Rudolf will appear Tuesday in the state court in Mannheim, accused of 'denying the Holocaust' since 1997 via documents and on the Internet. 'Denying the Holocaust' is a crime in Germany, where it carries a maximum sentence of five years. U.S. authorities arrested Rudolf in 2005 when he appeared at an immigration office in Chicago to apply for a green card based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen.

Bruno Gollnisch on trial for 'Holocaust denial'

The deputy leader of France’s National Front (FN) party, Bruno Gollnisch, went on trial Tuesday for "disputing crimes against humanity" over comments he made two years ago on the Holocaust. Gollnisch, 56, who is a member of the European parliament, faces a possible year in jail if he is found guilty after two days of hearings. In October 2004 Gollnisch said at a press conference that he did not "question the deportations (nor) the hundreds of thousands, the millions of dead ... As for the way they died, there has to be debate." He went on: "I do not deny the existence of deadly gas chambers. But I am not a specialist on this, and I think we should leave historians to discuss it. And this discussion should be free."

One Third of the Holocaust

The site containing the video, "One Third of the Holocaust," has moved to a new URL, and made each segment available on YouTube (search for "holocaust denial movie"). As a short-cut, we've made the YouTube versions available here. The quality is better on the main site, but the YouTube versions are still very effective.

3rd Annual Halloween Contest winners

We have chosen the two top entries in our 3rd Annual David McCalden Most Macabre Halloween Holocaust Tale Challenge, which ended October 30, 2006.

The first place contestant earns $200, while the second place entry earns $50.

Congratulations to each of our winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in our contest.

It's not too early to enter next year's contest -- just get your entries to us by October 30, 2007.

Translation help wanted

The Holocaust Historiography Project is looking for someone to help translate our Holocaust-related videos and web pages into Farsi in time for the December conference in Persia.

We are a small non-profit educational organization based in California. Our e-mail contact address is webmaster@historiography-project.com.

We have funds available to pay for help.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for a much-needed conference on the Myth of the Holocaust. Belief in the Holocaust Myth is the new religion in the Western countries, and President Ahmadinejad correctly comments that further research and study on the matter are needed. Amazingly, within days of the President's call for a conference, the Majdanek Museum in Poland dropped the number of killed from 360,000 people killed to 78,000 people.

Revisionists suffer oppression in several western countries. Professors have lost their jobs, people have been attacked and beaten, scholars jailed. At this moment several honest scholars are in prison facing years of incarceration for expressing doubt about the Ugly Myth: Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolph in Germany, the writer David Irving in Austria. It is amazing that honest historic research and discussion has been criminalized by self-proclaimed defenders of liberty. Unfortunately, many of these same "Defenders of Freedom" attack the integrity of the government of President Ahmadinejad and threaten the Iranian people. (See www.ihr.org.)

The Holocaust Historiography Project is resolutely against the use of military force to resolve International disputes and is against the censorship and criminalization of historic research and study. It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth. We feel that the hate propaganda and the false exaggerations of the Holocaust Myth are leading to conflict with Iran.

We feel that there is a great need to provide accurate information to the Persian people and to encourage discussion. Please let us know if your offices can provide translations of webpages and provide Farsi subtiles on videos. Please also know the approximate costs. Thank you.

More Holocaust cartoons

We've posted copies of the winners of the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest, along with dozens of the other entries.

New Holocaust-related news feeds

We now have pages with up-to-the-minute updates on Holocaust-related topics, such as the Holocaust itself, Ernst Zundel, Robert Faurisson, and David Irving.

Faurisson on the Holocaust

With Dr. Robert Faurisson currently on trial for thought crimes in France, it seemed appropriate to post a "bootleg" version of the long-awaited English version of his book, the working title for which is/was Faurisson on the Holocaust. This version is pretty rough, as the "translation" from one digital format to another did not go smoothly. However, the bulk of the material is here, and with any luck as time goes on this bootleg version will become as polished as Dr. Faurisson would want it to be. In the meantime, let us know if you spot any egregious errors.

One Third of the Holocaust

If you haven't yet seen the new audio-video site, One Third of the Holocaust, you have to check it out. OTOTH deals with extermination claims at Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec. There are four hours of video here (!), but the information is presented in 30 segments, so you don't have to watch the entire thing at one time. If you're a fan of any of the spate of cop/legal/CSI shows on TV these days, you'll especially love Episode 22.

'Der Giftpilz' now on-line

The Archive section now has a version of Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), published by Julius Streicher's Der Stuermer in 1938. This book was cited as document 1778-PS in the Nuremberg trials.

You can find page images and an English translation here.

Iranian leader: West uses Holocaust as pretext

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday again expressed doubts over the true extent of the Holocaust and called it a pretext by the West to gain domination over the Middle East.

See the full article here.

Holocaust row Mufti to lose advisory post

AUSTRALIA'S most senior Islamic cleric, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilaly, will be thrown off John Howard's Muslim advisory board after dismissing the Holocaust as a "Zionist lie".

See the full story here.

Iran: Holocaust a pretext for domination

ranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday once again expressed doubts over the true extent of the Holocaust and called it a pretext by the West to get domination over the Middle East.

See the full article here.

Ahmadinejad doubts Holocaust

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday once again charged that the Holocaust was a fantasy concocted for the West to take over the Middle East through Israel, and proclaimed that Israel was on the verge of collapse, the news agency ISNA reported.

See the full story here.

Holocaust claims a Zionist lie: Australian mufti

The nation’s Islamic leader, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, has dismissed the Holocaust as a "Zionist lie" in a series of fiery sermons in which he also lashed out at the West and the US-led occupation of Iraq.

See the full article here.

Update on Georges Theil

by Robert Faurisson

In a note bearing today's date, G. Theil, recalling another, earlier conviction, estimates the sum total of his financial penalties and costs at €130,000.

G. Theil's postal address: BP 50-38, F-38037 GRENOBLE CEDEX 2 (France)

Update on Georges Theil

by Robert Faurisson

In France, repression of revisionism is increasing.

On March 3, 2006 Georges Theil, 65, a retired telecommunications engineer, had his conviction for "Holocaust denial" upheld by the court of appeal of Limoges. He was guilty of sending, in a period running from April to June 2004, a booklet of his own revisionist writings to just a small number of persons in that region, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment without remission and a fine of €30,000, ordered to pay €9,300 in damages, and hit with still other sanctions as well.

Yesterday, May 17, in Lyon the same Georges Theil was convicted on appeal for having made a brief revisionist statement on October 14, 2004 in front of a local television journalist's camera, and sentenced to a new six-month prison term without remission, fined another €10,000, and ordered to pay €40,500 in damages as well as to cover the costs of having the judgment published in two newspapers (probably as much as €8,000).

The offender has lodged a petition concerning the first case with the superior court of appeal in Paris, and is going to do the same for the second. If he fails there, he will, in principle, have to go to prison. In the first case, he has already paid out €39,300, and even a bit more. In the second case, he is going to have to pay out €50,500, not counting the legal publication fees. Some organisations have reacted with lightning speed: this very morning, by faxes sent to Georges Theil's solicitor, they were demanding their pound of flesh.

In addition to these financial penalties it is appropriate to note, for the six proceedings involved (trials, first appeals, final appeals), the lawyer's fees and other costs amounting to substantial sums.

As for the French media, they either pass these convictions over in silence or say they are glad of them.

On January 15 of this year, Georges Theil had sent out a plea for support to the 45 French intellectuals who were ostentatiously demanding, in the name of freedom of historical research and freedom of expression, repeal of the laws hindering those freedoms. Only two intellectuals answered him: one, Edgar Morin, who is Jewish, told him he could not help in any way because he had himself been found guilty of "racial defamation" (he had, to the mind of the Paris court of appeal, too strongly criticised Israeli policy!); the other, professor René Rémond, a Catholic and a shabbos goy, wrote back curtly expressing his refusal to come to Theil's aid.

New trial for Faurisson

French revisionist Robert Faurisson's most recent trial is scheduled for Tuesday, July 11, in the XVIIth chamber of the Paris criminal court (2, 4 Boulevard du Palais; nearest underground station: "Cité") at 1.30 p.m. Faurisson is accused of having granted, last year, an interview of revisionist nature to the Iranian radio and television station Sahar, in the context of a telephone conversation with a Teheran journalist who had called him. Because the satellite channel Sahar's broadcasts can be picked up in France, France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), headed by Dominique Baudis, filed charges against him with the public prosecutor's office in Paris.

The Holocaust in Alabama

Holocaust revisionism has surfaced in the race for Attorney General in Alabama, of all places. Whether or not democratic candidate Larry Darby is correct in his views, one has to wonder what in the world any of this has to do with politics in America in 2006. Why does anyone even care?