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Quo
vadis, Revisionism  ?
By Joseph P. Bellinger
Joseph P. Bellinger (1949 - 2013) published many articles on various aspects of the Second World War. From 2009 through 2013 he served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for INCONVENIENT HISTORY. At the time of his death, he was writing a new book on the subject of the persecution of revisionists around the world,
The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.”
Over the past twenty-five years, throughout much of the western world, historical revisionism has sustained ever-harsher assaults on freedom of conscience and expression aimed directly at it. Explicitly anti-Holocaust-denial criminal statutes impose the consequences: question the Holocaust, go to jail. Unrepentant revisionists convicted under these oppressive laws can expect to serve lengthy sentences and appeals in most cases are routinely
denied.
As of October 2008, fourteen countries had enacted laws either specifically prohibiting and punishing "Holocaust denial" or expressions of "racism." These countries are Israel, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, and
Luxembourg.
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