Historical Revisionists

Holocaust Revisionism - Claiming that it never happened

A Short History of Holocaust Revisionism    Article by holocaust revisionist Arthur R. Butz

Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust

The Campaign for Radical Truth in History

Critics of Holocaust Revisionism

Literature of the Holocaust   An astounding website that supports Professor Al Filreis' course at the Unversity of Pennsylvania. On one recent day there were 810 accesses to this site. He provides a list of materials for his course and a vast set of links on the holocaust and on holocaust denial.

Holocaust-Referenz: Argumente gegen Auschwitzleugner  Holocaust Reference Work: Arguments against the deniers of Auchswitz. An immense and thoroughly detailed site providing links to historical documents and accounts, mostly in German, but some in English as well. Also he presents a catalog of works of holocaust denial and an extensive list of the various favorite arguments of the revisionists.

In explaining why he has taken on this task, the author of the site, Juergen Langowski says: "Rational arguments run aground when reality mutates into a matter of point of view. Still I would consider it wrong to leave unanswered the lies and distortions of the Auschwitz deniers." [my translation -- Fred Wallace]

Virtual Library History - Third Reich and World War II  A joint project of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Kansas. Materials in English and German.

Revising American History

Antis and "Christian" militia adherents claim that their own extremist religious beliefs are the same as the beliefs of the founders of the United States.

• Making the world safe for mob rule  May 4, 2003 - "America's Founding Fathers recoiled in well-informed horror at the notion of democracy, which they reviled as 'mob rule.'"

• Eric Holmberg Films   Available on video cassette from American Portrait Films. Story of America's Liberty, The Truth Behind the Declaration of Independence, American Covenant, Dawn's Early Light. All purport to reveal that the Founding Fathers had the same bigotted and narrow mindset as today's religious extremists.
  
• A Revisionist "Civil Rights" presentation on slavery "It is presently politically fashionable to depict slavery as a cruel, punishing existence. This possible historical inaccuracy was begun in the 1700's by abolitionist politicians who were against the ownership of human beings on a purely philosophical level." "Instead of claiming they were treated badly, most of the ex-slaves longed for the days when their 'marsters' were with them. They said their 'marsters' were their best friends. In fact, they longed for those days again."

• Covering Saint Martin's Sins  In a review of The Martin Luther King. Jr., Plagiarism Story, edited by Theodore Pappas, (Rockford, Illinois: The Rockford Institute, 1994) a writer for Contra Mundum makes the case that Martin Luther King, Jr. committed plagiarism in some of his best known speeches. "King, who came from a family of shysters turned preachers, began cheating, plagiarizing and otherwise lying when in high school and never gave it up. Lacking the aptitude for serious scholarly work, in his passage through various liberal schools, particularly theological seminary and graduate school, he expressed a devotion to the various icons of apostate theology and socialist thought."

• Operation Rescue & Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s   An article from the Forerunner webpages, asserting that antiabortion extremists are the heirs of the civil rights movement.

• WallBuilders  "WallBuilders is an organization dedicated to the restoration of the moral and religious foundation on which America was built--a foundation which, in recent years, has been seriously attacked and undermined. In accord with what was so accurately stated by George Washington, we believe that 'the propitious [favorable] smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation which disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.'"

• The Christian Colonial Foundation of America   "As important as the Declaration of Independence, the War for Independence, and the Constitution were, and as important as men such as Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison were, we should not look here for the foundations of the United States. No, the actual foundations of this nation were laid in the colonial period."

  The National Reform Association is a Christian Reconstructionist think tank. For more on the Reconstructionists, see Theorists of the Antiabortion Movement.

• Christian History: How Preachers Incited Revolution  "When understood in its own times, the American Revolution was first and foremost a religious event."

• Is It Time For Christians to Consider a Separate "Christian Homeland"?  Author Kevin L. Clauson answers in the affirmative, explaining that "the Christian 'homeland' of which I speak would be a Calvinist 'neo-Puritan' civil state." This question is posed in Contra Mundum, the official magazine of the Christian Reconstructionsts.

• America's Godly Heritage    Accuses humanists and liberal media of "rewriting America's Judeo-Christian history in a humanistic tone."

• Founding father chic  Argues that except for a few less religious leaders, there was "far greater (if not always as famous) number of believers whose professions of faith and religious activities were abundant."

• Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum    The list of supporters at this site covers the political spectrum from left to right. The make a case that the government conspired to kill innocent believers.

• Waco Fires Still Burn  February 28, 2003 - Written on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Waco Branch Davidian fire.

The Founding Fathers   Cartoon versions of Geo. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin all tell off a cartoon Hillary Clinton, bigtime. Among other things, they accuse her of watching too many liberal TV shows.

1776 American Dream  "Keeping our founding fathers' vision alive!" Best feature: "Minuteman Messages," simulated interviews with the Founders of America, using their own words from writings and speeches. Read them as text or hear them spoken as mini radio plays in MP3 files. Site founder John Gillespie conducts the interviews, allowing George Washington and Alexis de Tocqueville to speak almost as much as himself.

Picture at the right shows Gillespie giving Ben Franklin editorial advice.

Was America founded as a Christian nation?  Provides a timeline, beginning with 1492, pointing to "irrefutable evidence that a sense of divine destiny accompanied the most important events of our history."

Bible Inspired America's Founding Documents  May 30, 2003 - "The destruction of America's founding principles can be directly traced to the country's willful rejection of the Bible as our source of divine authority." "Even America's constitutional form of government consisting of three co-equal branches, legislative, executive and judicial is taken directly from Isaiah 33:22."

U.S. answers to higher law  August 13, 2003 - Major theorist of the extreme fringe of the antiabortion movement, Rob Schenck, argues for the public display of the Ten Commandments.

A Call to the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of the United States of America  Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) calls on the faithful to attend an Ecclesiastical Court that will find the U.S. Supreme Court in contempt of God on September 25, 2003.

Critics of the Historical Revisionists

Expert: U.S. law owes little to Bible  October 23, 2002 - An expert on American Constitutional law and history says that "the nation's founders mentioned Roman, British and European continental law but not the Bible or the Ten Commandments during their debates on the Constitution."

One Nation... Under God?   The Founding Fathers Speak Out on God, Religion and the First Amendment. Quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Tom Paine that show these leaders of the American Revolution were not narrow-minded on the question of religion.

TomPaine.comon sense   Historians and journalists rebut the racist and anti-semitic claims of revisionists. A recent target: Pat Buchanan for his goofy views on Hitler.

Christian Historical Revisionism  Documents that the proponent of "America's Godly Heritage," David Barton, made up a good many of his favorite supporting quotes and documents. Also casts doubt on the right-wing urban legend concerning Cassie Bernal, the young woman killed in a Colorado high school, supposedly because she would not deny Christ.

Christian Historical Revisionism   Frederick Clarkson describes the right-wing theory of history. Christian History "holds that history is predestined from 'creation' until the inevitable arrival of the Kingdom of God. Christian history is written by means of retroactively discerning 'God's providence.'"

See Constitution for civics refresher  August 29, 2003 - Columnist Leonard Pitts points out that the USA "is not a theocracy, not a nation where the rulings of holy men carry official weight. The Framers made that impossible when they wrote a First Amendment forbidding the government from endorsing any religion."

Is America a Christian Nation?    The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence do not support revisionist claims. Essay by Fred Wallace.

The Ten Commandments and American Law: Why Some Christians' Claims to Legal Hegemony Are Not Consistent with the Historical Record  September 11, 2003 -