David McCalden
William David McCalden (born September 20, 1951 in Belfast , Northern Ireland , † October 15, 1990 in El Segundo , California ) was a British right-wing extremist politician , and later one of the leading international Holocaust deniers .
McCalden was born in Belfast but left his hometown in 1972 to study at Goldsmiths College at the University of London . As a member of the right-wing British National Front , for which he was also the editor of the party newspaper Nationalist News , he became politically active for the first time. In 1976 he left the National Front to join the National Party led by John Kingsley Read , former chairman of the National Front . Here, too, he wrote for the party journal, Britain First . His other works from this period include the journal Beacon and the book Nuremberg and Other War Crimes Trials ( Nuremberg and other war crimes trials , 1978). However, he wrote this book under the pseudonym " Richard Harwood ", which was also used by the British Holocaust denier Richard Verrall .
In 1978 McCalden emigrated to California . With veteran American neo-Nazi Willis Carto he founded the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), of which he was appointed director and chief editor. Here he worked mostly under the name "Lewis Brandon". According to its co-founders, the IHR is a research center for all serious historians. However, it only publishes materials that address Holocaust denial and is not recognized by historians as a reputable research institute. McCalden was the leading organizer of the IHR's activities, establishing his reputation as one of the most staunch supporters of Holocaust denial.
Still, McCalden and Carto's relationship deteriorated and in 1981, after falling out with Carto, McCalden left the IHR and started his own group, Truth Mission. As its director, he has published other journals including Revisionist Reprints , Holocaust News, and David McCalden's Revisionist Newsletter , and books including The Amazing, Rapidly Shrinking "Holocaust" (1987). In 1989 he was attacked and badly beaten during a conference in Los Angeles . He blamed Irv Rubin and the Jewish Defense League for this attack .
David McCalden died of pneumonia and AIDS at the age of 39 in El Segundo, California.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Burt A. Folkert David McCalden; Failed to Disprove the Holocaust. In: LA Times, October 25, 1990, accessed September 23, 2015
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| SURNAME | McCalden, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCalden, William David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British far-right politician and Holocaust denier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast , Northern Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1990 |
| Place of death | El Segundo , California |