This week, I’m republishing another piece I wrote last year for Holocaust Controversies blog. If one thing becomes abundantly clear when one looks at the list of Holocaust Handbooks published by Castle Hill and CODOH, it is that they are overwhelmingly concerned with the Holocaust itself and, within that topic, the part of the Holocaust occurring within …
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On Weckert’s ‘Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich’
This week, I’m republishing another piece I wrote last year for Holocaust Controversies blog. Unlike Heddesheimer, Ingrid Weckert is a known quantity. She has a long career on Germany’s far-right; of all the HH authors, she has the clearest connections with the neo-Nazi movement in Europe, with Jürgen Graf a close second. Now in her …
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Review of Reviews: Anderson’s ‘Imagined Communities’
In the introduction to the second edition of Imagined Communities (IC), Benedict Anderson notes the book was published alongside similar studies appearing more or less concurrently, plus additional monographs published over the next few years. Among the most important of these works were Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and studies by Anthony Smith, John Breuilly, and others. Consequently, many …
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On Graf’s Russian sources
This week, I’m republishing a piece I wrote last year for Holocaust Controversies blog. I recently wrote a blog post for our larger Holocaust Handbooks project on Ingrid Weckert’s Jewish Emigration From the Third Reich. In the beginning, I pointed out that Weckert has the closest demonstrable ties to neo-Nazis among the living deniers, with Jürgen …
Sergey Romanov on Katyn
One of the greatest crimes of the Stalin regime was the execution by the NKVD of the Polish officer corps in the spring of 1940, while the USSR and Nazi Germany were still abiding by their nonaggression pact. The crime was actually discovered by the Nazis during their invasion of the Soviet Union, but when …
REPOST: Some thoughts on the genetic fallacy and ‘The Bell Curve’
I decided to repost this old blog of mine (lightly edited!) since I spent an hour or so last week attempting to debate its content with a defender of Charles Murray. I think it’s held up fairly well. YMMV. Enjoy. ====== The title is something of a pun. There’s been a lot of virtual ink …
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Carlo Mattogno is incompetent
If you know anything about me at all, you know I spent years writing about Holocaust denial and its proponents and debunking their claims. Here is one of the more recent series I wrote — this one on Carlo Mattogno, the great white hope of denial or, if you prefer, last man standing. These four …
Update and interview with Brooksy
For those of you (anyone?) regularly reading this blog, just a quick note that I’ve enrolled in the Master of Arts program in history at the University of Pennsylvania and am taking two courses this year that together constitute an introduction to the proper conduct of historical research. Both because much of the writing for …
The Achille Mbembe Affair
Over at the Holocaust Controversies blog, I spent the last few days laying out a summary of the allegations of antisemitism against the prominent African scholar Achille Mbembe, as well as some thoughts about what it means for the discourse surrounding Israel-Palestine and the “uniqueness” debate. Click here to have a look.
Technology and historians
The development and advance of technology has greatly affected the work of historians. On the one hand, the work of historians has been made considerably easier with the movement online of several important archival sources, rendering travel in some cases unnecessary, with more sources coming online all the time. My own project in this course …
Inevitable Historicity 