39 Epilog (Holocaust: IHR)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
39 Epilog (Holocaust: IHR)
The following extract was published anonymously to alt.revisionism
in February, 1994. It indicates that Willis Carto has been purged
from the IHR - the Coalition for Human Dignity's Research
Department (Portland, Oregon) offered additional information in
its March 1, 1994 Dignity Report. (Get
pub/people/c/carto.willis/ carto.005 for the article.)
From _The Journal of Historical Review_, Nov/Dec 1993, pg 25:
WILLIS CARTO AND THE IHR
Willis Carto is perhaps best known as the founder and director
of Liberty Lobby, an organization based in Washington, DC that
publishes a weekly tabloid paper, The Spotlight. Carto has also
been affiliated with the Institute for Historical Review since
its founding in 1978. As those who have attended recent IHR
conferences know, the IHR staff acknowledges the many hours of
volunteer help that he and his wife Elisabeth have contributed
over the years.
Neither, however, contributed financially to the IHR. Neither
was involved in the IHR's day to day operations, nor was either
ever a paid employee. Willis Carto did, however, occasionally
act as an "agent" for the Institute and its non-profit corporate
parent, the "Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Inc."
During the past several months, facts have come to light to
persuade the IHR senior staff that Carto's relationship with the
IHR had become a liability. After much careful deliberation,
and on advice of legal counsel, the Institute resolved to
terminate this relationship. Accordingly, the corporate Board
of Directors, meeting on September 25, voted unanimously to end
its relationship with the Cartos. This decision has the full
support of the IHR staff, including Director Tom Marcellus* and
editors Mark Weber, Theodore O'Keefe and Greg Raven. (Note:
it is my understanding that Mr. Marcellus has left the IHR to
pursue other interests. KNM, April 5, 1995)
* Mr. Marcellus has since left the IHR to pursue other interests,
including the Church of Scientology.
Tom Martinez provides us with a fitting epilog to this document in
one of the final chapters of "Brotherhood of Murder":
"[A] ... self-depreciating logic is displayed when the Neo-Nazis
and their allies claim that the Holocaust never occurred. In order
to do that, they have to deny that their hero Hitler, with whose
anti-Semitism they are in agreement, ever intended to harm the
Jews. Instead, the Jews wanted to harm Hitler and bring the entire
sacred Aryan supremacy movement into disrepute, which they did -
with diabolical cleverness - by fabricating the Holocaust. Just as
with Cutler's* analysis of The Order's failure, in denying the
Holocaust, the Aryan racists are admitting they aren't capable of
carrying out their own aims. Each time they appear to have tried
to do so - as with the Jews in Germany or The Order - they are
actually under the control of their enemy. In this way, claims of
Aryan superiority become riddled with admissions of Aryan
inferiority, which admissions - because they are psychologically
insupportable to those making them - are readily denied through
the creation of a fantasy world..." (Martinez, 206)
* Eldon "Bud" Cutler, who succeeded Gary Yarbrough as security chief
for the Aryan Nations in 1985
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