Happy 90th birthday to Arthur Butz, one of the greats of the 20th Century

By Carolyn Yeager

DR. BUTZ (LEFT) WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 10, 1933. Though he has long been an associate professor of electrical engineering at the elite Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he earned tenure in 1974, Arthur Butz is best known for his 1976 ground-breaking book, The Hoax of the 20th Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry.

Google Books writes of "Hoax" that this book "exhibits the overwhelming force of historical and logical arguments which Revisionism had accumulated by the middle of the 1970s. [...] Because of its prestige, no library can forego offering it, and no historian of modern times can ignore it." Continue reading at Carolyn Yeager