Deborah Lipstadt: Denying the Holocaust

Ibid. (Jan. 1975), p. 5.

Ibid., p. 6.

Ibid. (Feb. 1975), p. 6.

Ibid.

Ibid. (Apr. 1975), p. 10.

Ibid. (June 1975), p. 6.

Butz refused my request for an interview, Oct. 1992.

For additional information on the Liberty Lobby, see chapter 8.

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Torrance, Calif., 1976) (hereafter referred to as Hoax), p. 12.

Arthur Butz, “The International Holocaust Controversy,” Journal of Historical Review, vol. 1:1 (Spring 1980), pp. 5–22; “Holocaust ‘Revisionism’: A Denial of History,” ADL Facts, vol. 26:2 (June 1980); “Revisionism and the Right,” reprinted in Jewish Echo of Glasgow, January 8, 1982, p. 6; Aronsfeld, “Hoax of the Century,” Patterns of Prejudice, Nov.-Dec. 1976, pp. 13ff.

Hoax, pp. 68, 239.

Ibid., pp. 107, 131, 171, 195, 223.

Ibid., p. 249.

Ibid., pp. 240, 287.

Ibid., p. 240.

Ibid., pp. 33, 89.

Ibid., p. 87.

Ibid., pp. 247–48.

At the same meeting Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi addressed the group via television hookup. In addition to announcing a five million dollar gift to the group, he urged the “destruction of white America” and the formation of a black army in America that would create a separate state. David Moberg, “The Naysayer,” North Shore, Sept. 1985, pp. 38ff. Youngstown Jewish Times, Mar. 29, 1985.

Hoax, pp. 239, 287.

Ibid., pp. 93, 94, 100.

Ibid., pp. 29, 30, 45, 199, 287.

Ibid., p. 87.

Ibid.

The Jews were taken to Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York.

Ibid., p. 173.

Ibid., p. 215.

Ibid., pp. 128, 150, 158, 195, 200.

Ibid., p. 73.

Ibid., p. 195.

The section immediately before this section of the speech reads as follows: “I also want to make reference before you here, in complete frankness, to a really grave matter. Among ourselves, this one it shall be uttered quite frankly; but in public we will never speak of it. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30, 1934, to do our duty as ordered, to stand up against the wall comrades who had transgressed and shoot them, so we have never talked about this and never will. It was the tact which I am glad to say is a matter of course to us that made us never discuss it among ourselves, never talk about it. Each of us shuddered, and yet each one knew that he would do it again if it were ordered and if it were necessary.” Davidowicz, A Holocaust Reader, pp. 132–33.

Hoax, p. 193.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 19.

Ibid., p. 179.

Ibid., p. 181.

Ibid., p. 195.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 177.

Ibid., p. 158.

Ibid., p. 249.

Ibid., p. 87.

See Deborah Lipstadt, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 (New York, 1986).

Hoax, p. 89.

Hoax, p. 145.

Ibid., p. 142.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 145.

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York, 1963), p. 116.

Hoax, p. 217.

Ibid., p. 237.

Ibid., p. 242.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid., pp. 242–43.

Ibid., p. 243.

Ibid.

Moberg, “The Naysayer,” p. 43.

Lewis Brandon to Subscribers, Supplement to Journal of Historical Review, Apr. 16, 1981.

Deposition of William David McCalden, aka Lewis Brandon, Mel Mermelstein v. Institute for Historical Review, et al. , Superior Court of the State of California, No. C 356542 (hereafter cited as McCalden Deposition), vol. 1, Jan. 16, 1984, pp. 8, 37.

Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1981, part I, p. 3.

David McCalden, “A Few Facts About the Institute for Historical Review [which they’d rather you didn’t know].” (Manhattan Beach, Calif., n.d.).

McCalden Deposition, vol. II, Feb. 8, 1984, pp. 272ff.

Letter of IHR to All Interested Parties Intending to Claim $50,000 Reward, Institute of Historical Review, Torrance, Calif., n.d.

Questionnaire and Claim for $50,000 Reward, Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, Calif., n.d.

Lewis Brandon to Mel Mermelstein, November 20, 1980, cited in Declaration of William Cox regarding the Urgency of Proceedings in Mel Mermelstein v. Institute for Historical Review, et al. , Superior Court of California, Case No. C 356542 (hereafter cited as Declaration of William Cox), Aug. 10, 1981, p. 16.

Declaration of William Cox, p. 18.

Brandon to Subscribers; Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1981.

Signed statement by Simon Wiesenthal, May 4, 1981.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency Weekly News Digest, May 13, 1983.

Statement of Record and Letter of Apology to Mel Mermelstein, signed by G. G. Baumen, Attorney for Legion for Survival of Freedom, Institute for Historical Review, Noontide Press, and Elisabeth Carto, and Mark F. Von Esch, Attorney for Liberty Lobby and Willis Carto, July 24, 1985.

Appellant’s Opening Brief, Mel Mermelstein v. Legion for the Survival of Freedom, etc., et al., May 4, 1992 (hereafter cited as Appellant’s Opening Brief, Mel Mermelstein v. Legion), pp. 6ff.

Declaration of William Cox, p. 20.

Paul L. Berman, “Gas Chamber Games: Crackpot History and the Right to Lie,” Village Voice, June 10–16, 1981, pp. 1, 37–43.