Sunday, September 25, 2011

Jürgen Graf on China, Castro and 'Defensive Racism'

It appears that Jürgen Graf's advocacy of free speech for Revisionists is somewhat compromised by his support for authoritarianism and what he calls 'defensive racism'. In 2005, Graf gave these responses to an interviewer's questions here.

Wäre es denn eine bessere Welt?
Demokratie ist ein Luxus und funktioniert nur in guten Zeiten, doch die Probleme dieser Welt lassen sich nur mit einem autoritären Regime lösen [Democracy is a luxury and only works in good times, but the world's problems can be solved only by an authoritarian regime]. Die Chinesen haben gezeigt, dass es geht. Auch vor Fidel Castro habe ich Respekt, allein schon, weil er den USA seit einem halben Jahrhundert die Stirn bietet.

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Das kann man locker sagen – Ihre Thesen sind nazifreundlich und rassistisch.
Ich verurteile auch rassistische Gewalt, ich plädiere für einen defensiven Rassismus, für die Erhaltung der ethnischen Identität [I condemn racist violence, I advocate a defensive racism, for the preservation of ethnic identity. ].
Where would free speech and open debate stand in this authoritarian and racist society? Graf does not tell us.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Soviet Civilian Losses in World War II

In a discussion following my blog 5 million non-Jewish victims? (Part 2), our reader "HLAPOT" remarked that, as concerns the Soviet Union’s human losses during the Second World War, there is at this point in time a demographic estimate (the one presented by Michael Ellman and S. Maksudov in their 1994 article Soviet Deaths in the Great Patriotic War: A Note) that "lacks a satisfactory explanation", i.e. is not or insufficiently substantiated by evidence-based death counts.

This apparently remains true more than 1 ½ decades after Ellman and Maksudov’s article. A solid scientific breakdown of the enormous figure of almost 27 million excess deaths in the Soviet Union during the "Great Patriotic War", especially as concerns the civilian component, has to my knowledge not been provided by historiography so far.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Trying to contact Winicjusz Natoniewski

In the blog A Polish victim of Nazi crimes, I translated a German news article about Polish citizen Winicjusz Natoniewski, who sued the German Federal Republic on account of severe burns he suffered when German forces torched the village of Szczecyn on 2 February 1944 and killed hundreds of its inhabitants.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

A Great Lie

In early 1940, Heinrich May was transferred to the conquered Polish territories annexed to the German Reich, where he was appointed forest superintendent for the Koło district. Within the scope of his duties he was also responsible for the forests that would later be part of the Chełmno extermination camp.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

How Deniers Keep Their Friends

Why does it seem that with every new issue of Inconvenient History, instead of being awestruck by some new found history and research that shakes the core of our conventional and ‘mainstream’ beliefs, we are instead witness to the perpetual revisionist attempts to ignore or hand wave ‘inconvenient’ information? Be it Joe Bishop’s failures on the open-air shootings, Dalton’s spinning of Goebbels’ 27 March 1942 diary entry, or Kues’ oddball attempts to prove ‘resettlement’ via tertiary and hearsay sources while ignoring German wartime documents, Inconvenient History has done more to show the weakness of revisionist arguments than their bona fides.

In the latest issue, we are provided yet another letdown of revisionist honesty, particularly in Jett Rucker’s “profile” of David Irving.