Austin Joseph App (1902 – 1984) 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 . Austin has spoken in front of audiences alleging that the holocaust was a hoax. He is known for his work on the Holocaust, and he has been accused of Holocaust denial by mainstream historians.
In 1973 App laid out eight "axi...
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Austin Joseph App (1902 – 1984) 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 . Austin has spoken in front of audiences alleging that the holocaust was a hoax. He is known for his work on the Holocaust, and he has been accused of Holocaust denial by mainstream historians.
In 1973 App laid out eight "axioms", or what he described as "incontrovertible assertions" about the Holocaust in his 1973 pamphlet The Six Million Swindle:
App’s work inspired the Institute for Historical Review, the California center of Holocaust denial founded in 1978. App "inundated" magazines, newspapers and politicians with Anti-Semitic letters complaining about Frankin D Roosevelt entering World War II without which Hitler could have won the war. App equated Communists and Jews, and blamed both for post war problems rather than Nazi Germany which did not start the...
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