Samisdat Publishers
Encyclopedia
Samisdat Publishers, Ltd. was a small Canadian
publishing house owned and operated by Ernst Zündel
, a noted Holocaust denier, during the 1980s and 1990s. It was based in Toronto, Ontario, and is now defunct.
The name was taken from samizdat
, a system practised in Soviet countries of covertly transmitting documents which would have been politically impossible to publish officially.
Most of the books and pamphlets published by Samisdat Publishers were associated in some way or another with Holocaust denial or promotion of Nazism.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
publishing house owned and operated by Ernst Zündel
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
, a noted Holocaust denier, during the 1980s and 1990s. It was based in Toronto, Ontario, and is now defunct.
The name was taken from samizdat
Samizdat
Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
, a system practised in Soviet countries of covertly transmitting documents which would have been politically impossible to publish officially.
Most of the books and pamphlets published by Samisdat Publishers were associated in some way or another with Holocaust denial or promotion of Nazism.
List of publications
- The Hitler We Loved and Why, by Ernst ZündelErnst ZündelErnst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
- The Hoax of the Twentieth CenturyThe Hoax of the Twentieth CenturyThe Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by electrical engineering professor Arthur Butz. First published in 1976 by Historical Review Press, it denied that Nazi Germany tried to exterminate the Jews during the Holocaust, and was...
, by Arthur ButzArthur ButzArthur R. Butz is a Holocaust denier and associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University. He achieved tenure in 1974 and currently teaches classes in control system theory and digital signal processing.-Education:... - A Straight Look at the Third Reich and The Six Million Swindle, by Austin AppAustin AppAustin Joseph App was a controversial German-American professor of medieval English literature who taught at the University of Scranton and La Salle University. App defended Germans and Nazi Germany vehemently...
- Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald: The Greatest Fraud in History, by Richard Harwood, a.k.a. Richard VerrallRichard VerrallRichard Verrall is a former Deputy Chairman of the British National Front , he edited the magazine Spearhead from 1976 to 1980.-National Front career:...
- Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions [1978] by Ernst ZündelErnst ZündelErnst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
as Christof Friedrich and Mattern Friedrich. - Hitler at the South Pole [1979] by Ernst ZündelErnst ZündelErnst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
as Christof Friedrich and Mattern Friedrich. - UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon? by Ernst ZündelErnst ZündelErnst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
as Christof Friedrich and Mattern Friedrich with Willibald Mattern, a German émigré living in Santiago de Chile. - UFOs: Unbekanntes Flugobjekt? Letzte Geheimwaffe des Dritten Reiches [1974] by Willibald Mattern, a German émigré living in Santiago de Chile.