Holocaust history battle raged in Torrance
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Holocaust history battle raged in Torrance
Group that offered a reward for evidence of the genocide was sued by a survivor after refusing to pay.
By Denise Nix
Daily Breeze
Three decades and thousands of miles from the Eastern European camps where 6 million Jews were killed by Nazis, Torrance became the literal and figurative hotbed for a movement that questioned the accuracy of reported atrocities of the Holocaust. For full story.
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In our book, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It, Michael Shermer and I state very clearly that IHR is the institute for Holocaust denial in America.
Ms. Dix says that IHR has “critics” — but names the marginalized JDL and a single Holocaust survivor — instead of critics like the governments of the countries that perpetrated and participated in the commission of genocide on the Jewish people, the UN, the US Congress, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust scholars in countries throughout the world and hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses, as well as hard evidence brought at the Nuremberg Trials and in other trials in the US and Europe.
IHR does indeed deny the Holocaust (it does not merely question the numbers and atrocities, as Ms. Dix states) and is without question an organization, recognized throughout the world for its views. It would not be permitted to exist in Germany, Austria, Belgium and France.
Ms. Nix tries to show a “fair and balanced view,” implying that IHR is an underdog. But history is not “fair and balanced.” History is truth, and the truth is that IHR is what it is–a deplorable engine of hate speech and racism.
Perhaps Ms. Nix and her editors need to examine what motivated that article…because it certainly appears from its tone that they regret the departure of IHR from Torrance–and it behooves the rest of us to wonder why that is.