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See Ibidem, pp. 3, 54-55.
Ibidem, p. 26 and interview with Gabriel Constantinescu in Puncte cardinale, April 1999.
In 1999, Gazeta de vest published ITP’s “Declaration <strong>of</strong> Principles,” and <strong>the</strong> ITP in return let <strong>the</strong>
group headed by Guleş use its web site for disseminating Legionary propaganda. See “Declaraţie de
principii: Poziţia a Treia Internaţională,” Gazeta de vest, no. 149, March 1999, pp. 22-27 and <strong>the</strong> 1999
site dspace.dial.pipex.com/third-position.
See “Noile structuri ale poziţiei a Treia engleze,” Gazeta de vest, no. 36, December 1997, p. 54.
See Roger Griffin, The Nature <strong>of</strong> Fascism, Routlege, London, p. 166.
See <strong>the</strong> photos published in Gazeta de vest, no. 125, September 1996 and no. 128, December 1996, as
well as http://www.verfassungsschutz.de.
On <strong>the</strong> group’s international contacts see “Noua dreaptă europeană a fost reprezentată şi de
România,” România liberă, 23 September 1997.
See “Cine suntem”?, http://www.nouadreapta.org.
On <strong>the</strong> PDN and its antisemitism see Michael Shafir, “Marginalization or Mainstream? The Extreme
Right in Post-Communist Romania,” in Pal Hainsworth (ed.), The Politics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Extreme Right: From
<strong>the</strong> Margins to <strong>the</strong> Mainstream, Pinter, London, 2000, pp. 247-267, notes on pp. 255-258.
Bogdan-Ioan Matei, review <strong>of</strong> Viorel Achim, Ţiganii în istoria Românei, Editura enciclopedica,
Bucharest, 1998, Măiastra, vol. 3, no. 4, 2001, pp. 61-63.
See Evenimentul zilei, July 17, 2003. Opriţa was sentenced to two years and six months for
nationalist-chauvinist propaganda and received a similar 30 months sentence for selling, disseminating,
producing and possession <strong>of</strong> artifacts carrying fascist, racist, and xenophobic symbols. The tribunal also
suspended him from exercising his civic rights for a five-year period. However, Opriţa promptly defied
<strong>the</strong> sentence by publishing an article on <strong>the</strong> website managed by Tudor Ionescu. See “Neostalinism în
România: apariţia infracţiunii de a studia şi reapariţia proceselor politice,” http://nouadreapta.org
See Grigore Oprita, Garda de fier: o carte pentru tânărul român, Timişoara, Editura Gordian, 1994.
Traian Golea, “Regizarea unei condamnări a poporului român: Personalităţi politice americane şi
internaţionale atacă România pe baza unor minciuni şi calomnii,” Romanian Historical Studies, Florida,
1996. See also <strong>the</strong> Neo-Legionary Nationalist Romania Page edited by Nicolae Niţa at
http://pages.prodigy.net/nnita/garda.html.
See, for example, http://www.abbc.com/zundel/index.html.
See, for example, Alan S. Rosenbaum (ed.), Is The Holocaust Unique? Perspectives On Comparative
Genocide, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado, Oxford, 1996; Yves Ternon, Statul criminal. Genocidurile
secolului XX, Institutul European, Iaşi, 2002.
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking <strong>the</strong> Holocaust, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2001, p. 49.
Wulf Kansteiner, “From Exception to Exemplum: The New Approach to Nazism and <strong>the</strong> ‘<strong>Final</strong>
Solution,’” History and Theory, vol. 33, No. 2 (May 1994), pp. 145-171.
The <strong>the</strong>me was recently resurrected in <strong>the</strong> wake <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> publication <strong>of</strong> Norman Finkelstein, The
Holocaust Industry: Reflections on <strong>the</strong> Exploitation <strong>of</strong> Jewish Suffering, Verso, London and New York,
2000.
Yehuda Bauer, op. cit., pp. 39 et al.
Stéphane Courtois, “Introduction: The Crimes <strong>of</strong> Communism” in The Black Book <strong>of</strong> Communism:
Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, MASS: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 23.
Ibid., p. 15.
Ronald Aronson, “Communism’s Posthumous Trial,” History and Theory, vol. 42, May 2003, pp.
222-245.
Shafir, Între negare şi trivializare prin comparaţie, op. cit., p. 115 et al.; for Romania’s case see also