Left-Extremist Endeavours

vant publications. The V.H.O. is also the editor of the "Vierteljahreshefte
für freie Geschichtsforschung" (VffG - "Quarterly Review
for Free Historical Research" now being published by "Castle
Hill Publishers", Hastings (United Kingdom). This is a journal
which presents itself as a scholarly publication to its readers, but
which actually uses only certain formal elements (footnotes,
structure, tables) so as to present the Holocaust as a process
that allegedly was scientifically impossible. The editor-in-chief of
the VffG has been, and still is, Germar SCHEERER, name at birth
RUDOLF, who in 1995 had been sentenced to a 14-months’ prison
term for incitement to hatred and violence, and before going to
prison, had sneaked abroad.
Controversy It emerged that the V.H.O. and SCHEERER had divergent views on
the strategic approach. While the editor primarily relies on
pseudo-scientific publication, the Belgian organization tries to
achieve an effect by means of superficial pamphlets. Also, a
controversy - of a personal nature rather than based on the appraisal
of the subject matter - developed among the leading
exponents of the Holocaust denial: in the VffG, Robert FAURISSON
92) attacked a publication of two other negators of the Holocaust,
the Swiss Jürgen GRAF and the Italian Carlo MATTOGNO 93) .
FAURISSON claimed that with the criticism levelled by those two
authors at Ditlieb FELDERER, Fred LEUCHTER or himself, among
others, revisionists for the first time maliciously and publicly
fought against other revisionists. This reveals a division among
the internationally active revisionist protagonists.
Revisionist propaganda on
the Internet
The Internet makes it possible for this camp of right-wing extremism
- with only a small risk of exposure to criminal prosecution
- to disseminate views, such as denial of the Holocaust,
which in Germany are forbidden by law. Quite a number of organizations
and individuals make use of this form of propaganda,
such as the German neo-Nazi Ernst ZÜNDEL who lives in Canada,
the French "Association des Anciens Amateurs de Récits de
Guerre et d'Holocauste" (AAARGH), or the two American institutions
"Committee for Open Debate On the Holocaust" (CODOH)
and "Institute for Historical Review" (IHR). The V.H.O. which has
also posted an extensive revisionist presentation on the Internet,
has the respective Internet addresses printed on special advertising
cards. The director of the Australian "Adelaide Institute",
Fred TOBEN, had to stand trial in Germany for his revisionist
propaganda. On 10 November he was given an unsuspended
ten-months’ sentence, on the basis of the content of his homepage
and open letters, for incitement to hatred and violence, for
insult and for slandering the memory of the dead 94) .
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