29 Background Information (Holocaust: IHR)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
29 Background Information (Holocaust: IHR)
The Institute for Historical Review was founded in 1979 by Lewis
Brandon, who also served as the first director. (Lewis Brandon is an
alias for William David McCalden, a British neo-fascist who in 1975
had founded Britain's National Party, a break-away from the notorious
neo-Nazi National Front.)
The IHR operates under the umbrella of the Legion for Survival of
Freedom, a registered non-profit corporation in the State of Texas.
The Institute for Historical Review is the moving force in the
movement to deny the Holocaust. Its initial meeting was opened by
Willis Carto, who also funds the organization, and whom some
(including Dennis King, author of the 1989 work "Lyndon LaRouche and
the New American Fascism") credit with starting it. No matter - with
McCalden out of the way (he left the IHR, and has since died), the
IHR was Carto's mouthpiece, until his forced ouster in late
1994.
Among the speakers at the 1980 convention were the Swede Felderer,
convicted and institutionalised in his country, and the Frenchman,
Robert Faurisson, convicted in his country of libel and promoting racism
and expelled from his University (though he still misrepresents himself
as member of its faculty).
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