The magazine repeatedly shared claims that Anne Frank’s diary was a fabrication, that Hitler had noble intentions, that Zionists colluded with the Nazis and that lethal gas chambers at Auschwitz were an impossibility. He promoted Holocaust denial in The Spotlight, Liberty Lobby’s flagship weekly publication which at its peak in the early 1980s had a circulation of approximately 300,000. Although it focused on Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories, IHR presented itself as a legitimate research institution, complete with a pseudo-academic journal and annual conferences where Holocaust deniers from around the world would present papers about their latest “research.”Ĭarto not only generated more technically “advanced” iterations of Holocaust denial - he also shared this content to a broader audience via more established antisemitic organizations like Liberty Lobby, which Carto founded in the late 1950s. This so-called “revisionist” effort was facilitated by Willis Carto, one of the most virulent antisemitic propagandists in the United States, who founded the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) in 1979. Their early propaganda efforts to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler’s image, which would motivate generations of Holocaust deniers, evolved in the 1970s to incorporate a new pseudo-scientific element, as right-wing extremists began making methodologically flawed but technically sophisticated arguments to challenge the historical record. In the United States, the movement was spearheaded by American adherents of the Nazi cause, including Francis Parker Yockey and George Lincoln Rockwell. The movement to deny that the Nazis murdered approximately six million Jews during World War II - the historical event known as the Holocaust - emerged in the years immediately following the war.
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