Race: It’s one of those “taboo” topics, even though it is an issue of great importance. But at The Barnes Review, no topics are too hot to handle. Most of the best writings on race were completed before the age of “political correctness,” which prevents intellectual intercourse on sensitive topics. In the spirit of free inquiry, TBR has acquired some of the best known and most controversial books on race written over the past century…
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The March/April issue of The Barnes Review looks into the ancient history of Turkey, with a focus on an ancient civilization—the Hittites, whose empire rivaled that of ancient Egypt. Another paper looks at Turkey’s strange ancient underground cities, and yet another scrutinizes modern Turkey. This issue is rounded off by several contributions on WWII history…
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With 875,000 claimed victims of mass murder, the former German wartime camp at Treblinka was even bigger than Auschwitz, some historians contest. In 1999, an Australian research team under engineer Richard Krege conducted ground-penetrating radar investigation on this former camp’s grounds in search of remnants of the gargantuan mass graves it must have harbored, if the claims are true. Yet they found next to nothing…
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1.5 million victims are said to have died in the German wartime camp at Majdanek, Poland. That was the news in 1944. In subsequent decades that number got steadily reduced, first to 360,000, then to 235,000. In 2005, Polish mainstream historians lowered that death toll to as low as 78,000. The number of claimed homocidal gas chambers went down in unison, from an initial seven to a mere two today. But not even this drastically deflated story is the truth, as revisionist J. Graf and M. Mattogno demonstrate in their most recent study…
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