* For three decades, Austria shelled out about 2 million shillings annually to the Vienna-based "Jewish Welcome Service" to allow groups of Austrian Jews to visit the place of their youth and to "confront the past".
No more. The chancellor's office, citing budgetary constraints, has announced that funding "has been curbed". In retaliation and protest, the "Jewish Welcome Service "canceled the "traditional handshake with the Chancellor" when the last group came visiting. So there!
* The British Imperial War Museum, opening a permanent Holocaust exhibition, has foregone certain traditions the world has come to associate with the "Holocaust". The exhibit is said to be ". . . very British and has neither the 'Never again' didactic message of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem nor the heartstring-pulling emotional force of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington," according to several reports. It does display a pile of shoes, but "in an understated way", according to its director, Suzanne Bardgett.
* As the Zundelsite reported previously, the giant Internet enterprise, Yahoo, was under the gun by a French court, which was trying to get it to ban "Nazi sites" that auctioned WWII memorabilia. Says Jerry Yang, a top Yahoo executive: "We are not going to change the content of our sites in the United States just because someone in France is asking us to do so."
* West Chester University plans to offer a master's degree in Holocaust and genocide studies in the fall, making it the second public university in the country and the only one in the state to offer the degree. The other, Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, began offering a master's degree in 1998. Five states, including New Jersey, have mandated the teaching of the Holocaust in middle and high schools. Ten states, including Pennsylvania, have passed resolutions recommending that it be taught. Ten thousand teachers were sent to workshops and training programs at Holocaust resource centers at colleges in the state. Nobody is asking how this atrocity teaching impacts on young minds.
* The unremitting "Anti-Nazi" propaganda that inundates the Western world is not without its price. A group of 44 German teenagers went on an educational trip to England, where they were "stoned and called Nazis", according to various Reuters reports. Their teacher, Gabbi Muller, was quoted as saying that the English children were encouraged by their parents to throw stones and water bombs.
* Meanwhile, the "Denier" label is spreading. Now the Australian Prime Minister Howard is called "a sorry denier." He is reported to have refused to say "sorry" for past injustices to the Australian Aboriginal people. They, in turn, retalieted by calling him a "dog" - and threatened to force him to say "sorry" as soon as they took over the Australian government.
* Michael Shermer, editor of "Skeptic" who has made it a point to rub elbows with various Revisionists for years, now has a chance to say what he really thinks of the Revisionist business. Shermer's new book "Denying History Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?" (University of California Press) is scheduled to be out this month. Revisionists wonder if he will still attend meetings in the future.
* It is never too late for World War II revisionism. Paul Harvey, a very well-known American radio talk show host, described US naval attacks against German vessels going on in the North Atlantic six months before the so-called "sneak attack" on Pearl harbor by the Japanese on 12/7/41. Please note: it took Harvey to correct the record 59 years after the fact! One more Revisionist!
* The Institute for Historical Review's website, www.ihr.org, is being listed by Zeal.com and is inviting Internet users to assign it a rating. Says Greg Raven, who administers the IHR: "This may be a good opportunity to help put Revisionism on the map, and it's possible we can tweak a few noses in the process."
* During Russian President, Putin's, visit to Germany, a translater referred to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the "German Fuehrer." The title, like so many others, has become unacceptable in the political context, even though it simply and innocently means "Leader."
* US Defense Secretary William Cohen objects to an independent and international criminal court for human rights violations if it does not include "an exception for the United States and any other country with a respected judicial system." The United States has not ratified the proposal, which had overwhelming U.N. approval. Cohen fears, not without cause, that such a court could be used "frivolously" against U.S. troops.
* Former Communist states are putting the rest of the world to shame in their advances in Revisionism. The Associatied press reports that ". . . amid crosses and flickering candles, the Polish and Ukrainian prime ministers on Saturday dedicated a memorial to the thousands killed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police 60 years ago." Thousands? How about tens of millions?
* Uplifting news from Poland, meanwhile. Remember the "Polish crosses" controversy? With an intense leafletting campaign, a fellow named Switon had urged followers to put up crosses at Auschwitz. The Switon leaflets urged, ". . . the time has come for us Poles to wage merciless war on Jewish-communist-masonry, the biggest enemies of the Polish state."
Now a Polish court has wiped out the sentence of this Roman Catholic leader, convicted of "inciting hatred of Jews" by urging people to erect crosses outside the former Nazi death camp. Switon plans to run for president this fall. He must be popular.
And, believe it or not ". . . the English managed to get through the Dunkirk memorial day without any mention of the Holocaust!!!" according to a Letter to the Zundelsite.
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