Robert
H. Countess
College professor, * in August 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee †
March 18, 2005
in Huntsville, Alabama
In 1965, C. was ordained into the Presbyterian Church. He served as a US Army chaplain from 1976 through 1984.
Thereafter, C. entered Bob Jones University. Here he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in
religion, where he majored in New Testament Greek text. From there he went on to receive his Master of Liberal Studies degree from
Georgetown University and then over to Drew University where he earned his Doctor of Ministry
degree. He has been chairman of the Foreign Language department at Covenant College, assistant
professor of Philosophy at Tennessee State University and also held teaching positions at the University of Tennessee, Northern
Virginia Community College. As a scholar of classical Greek and classical
Hebrew, he had taught history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
In 1987, C. was teaching the second half of a survey course on world history at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, when he became intrigued by
'The Hoax of the Twentieth Century' by Arthur Butz. He made it required reading for his
students. C. believed that Hitler wanted the Jews out of Europe hut that he didn't order their extermination, that the Germans had no homicidal gas chambers at any of their concentration camps, and that the number of Jews who died from all causes in World War Il wasn't six million but somewhere between several hundred thousand and one and a half
million. Other professors, like one at Indiana, had assigned or lectured about this
book, and all had been fired or disciplined for doing so .
C.
published some 100 articles in various journals and magazines and addressed several Conferences of the Institute for Historical
Review. Reviews and essays by him appeared in the IHR's Journal of Historical
Review, and in The Revisionist. He was known as an 'ambassador of
revisionism'.
C. lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and after retirement at a farm outside of
Huntsville
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Letzte Änderung / Last update:
22.09.2011
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