Institute for Historical Review

Um, you know, and I know, I know that he-- I know, I know that, um, Toland accepted some aspects of court, the court histo- the court history narrative and the Nuremberg narrative that people find highly objectionable.

But, you know, the Institute for Historical Review, when they were quite a bit harder line arguably than they are today, you know, like hosted him on multiple occasions.

The guy wasn't, you know, some milquetoast and he wasn't, you know, some-- He, he wasn't just some, some, some, um, National Review type, you know, trying to, trying to score points by, you know, writing an edgy book in, you know, during the détente era or something.

But, um-

I'm not trying to sound like some, like, original, like, or something like OG who's like, oh, I knew about Sorrell before.

But in the stuff that National Alliance would put out and the Institute for Historical Review, that stuff was pretty weighty, man.

You know, like William Pierce, you know, whatever anybody thinks of him or thinks of that whole scene, you know, he was a serious intellectual.

You know, he read tons of stuff, some of which I didn't really connect with.

Before, um, before consumer internet was a thing, you know, like I've said, um, you had to rely basically on the resources of your local library, and I was blessed in that regard because I live in Chicagoland.

Or stuff like the Institute for Historical Review, and, uh, the IHR, they, they were always putting out stuff related to Condor Legion, okay? I mean, in part because there's a lot of like aviation buff old guys like buying their stuff, I assume, but it's also guys like Mark Weber, um, or Weber, I guess he goes by, um, you know, and, uh, and, and some...

A lot, a lot of their kind of best contributors and editors, they were, they were always coming back to the, the war in Spain, you know, the battle in Spain, how that, how that shaped, you know, conceptual horizons strategically and, um, how it was really, you know, kind of the precursor to everything that followed.

And it was, uh, you know, like I said, I, I think it was Selene who said that, you know, Stalingrad is where left and right Hegelians met to settle their differences.

And, uh, what happened was there was an FBI raid, and all of these ADL documents were seized, and they really exposed the fact that they were working hard in their private tele- um, uh, private intelligence, uh, operation to, uh, disrupt these organizations' free speech rights and keep them from linking, um, linking up and having effective communications.

I mean, Roy Bullock would distribute, uh, pamphlets of the Institute for Historical Review, which is this Holocaust denial revisionist, uh, agency, and say to the Palestinian groups and Arab groups, "Oh, yeah, you guys are interested in this stuff, right?" Blah, blah, blah.

Just trying to smear them and, and, and, uh, divert their attention.

Um, so in terms of the, uh, lobbying of the, um, Attorney General Janet Reno to stop the investigation of the ADL, you had, uh, David Layer and Abraham Foxman, uh, really worried about this investigation, and they did not want the Justice Department ADL or the Justice Department FBI investigation to, to roll them up or have any impact on their reputation.

So, um, over those 11 days, he becomes acquainted with Willis Carto, who, um, [sighs] I think...

I don't know if it was him that started the Institute for Historical Review or, um, uh, or s- or someone else, but Carto is, uh, becomes very influential within the later American far right and, um, Yockey and him have a very close, um, uh, acquaintanceship.

And, um, Yockey kills himself, uh, with a cyanide capsule he kept in his shoe 11 days after incarceration in order to, uh, protect his political contacts, which he, which he put in the, uh, in his suicide note.

And, you know, Willis Carto gets his hands on a copy of Imperium and, uh, publishes it, publishes a second edition of it, which is the, uh, edition most people are familiar with.