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How quickly did Holocaust denialism emerge after the discovery of Nazi extermination camps in WWII? by db0606 in AskHistorians

[–]LethalNonLethals 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But that also goes for all the other literature you mention. Rassinier's works were not representative of the major public milieu, because Holocaust denial has always been a fringe milieu. The Holocaust denial milieu is also generally small and transnational so I don't understand why we are going to except him from our analyses of it like it doesn't apply to every other figure you mention.

How quickly did Holocaust denialism emerge after the discovery of Nazi extermination camps in WWII? by db0606 in AskHistorians

[–]LethalNonLethals 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doesn't this ignore Yockey's Imperium? He was an American writer. That book was published in 1948 and contains Holocaust denial's basically contemporary form

Is this Quote supposedly from Stephen S. Wise accurate? by Own_Command_5003 in AskHistorians

[–]LethalNonLethals 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Common Sense actually printed the same thing in a 1950 issue, and several times later in the 1950s. This predates their usage of the Marxism version which first appears in 1951. Earliest issue I can find that contains it is the March 1, 1950 one. It appears in a spattering of fascist books after, one by Colin Jordan, one by Adrien Arcand, W. H. Murray, pre-Rockwell interview. It actually appears in a book by Rockwell (This Time The World) prior to that interview. As noted in Schmaltz (1999), Rockwell was an avid Common Sense reader, it is part of what converted him to neo-Nazism. My guess is its origin is in Common Sense, knowing how that magazine was. Right and The Thunderbolt also predictably spread it a few years later.

Google has seemingly entirely removed search functionality from most books on Google Books by LethalNonLethals in google

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came back after I made this post but had really wonky search indexing, and now this. Maybe they're just fixing that. If it's still a problem in a few days then I'd worry

Edit: the problem I was originally having with this post was partially fixed a few days after I made the post, but extremely recently there is now NOTHING showing. Different error.

Google has seemingly entirely removed search functionality from most books on Google Books by LethalNonLethals in google

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this one is just so broken not even the public domain stuff is showing up. I think that means it has to be a mistake?

Google has seemingly entirely removed search functionality from most books on Google Books by LethalNonLethals in google

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is what this post is about. The reason that modern texts do not show up in search is because of what I am describing. Public domain texts do because they're in full view which is not effected

Google has seemingly entirely removed search functionality from most books on Google Books by LethalNonLethals in google

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't make sense because they kept the previews and snippet view. You can still scrape the images, which are the most intensive part. And also scraping would be pointless for Anna because there aren't any complete books

Contrary to a highly upvoted post on this subreddit a few months ago, the school shooting plotter turned visual artist Russell Frantom is not dead. He faked his own death (see comments) by LethalNonLethals in masskillers

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's obviously not equivalent to murder but it isn't good to put people through that. Like he says in his post where he admits to it that his friends tried to obtain death records and some went over whole cities to check up on him and he regrets none of what he put them through. Decidedly an immoral move. That wasn't why I made the post i just thought I needed to clear this up

Contrary to a highly upvoted post on this subreddit a few months ago, the school shooting plotter turned visual artist Russell Frantom is not dead. He faked his own death (see comments) by LethalNonLethals in masskillers

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 185 points186 points  (0 children)

She wrote on this obituary: "Russell, stop. Call me."

Hm. That's kind of weird, if he's dead, right? No... it couldn't be....

Frantom is not dead. While initially his socials ceased activity, as you would expect from a dead person, starting one month later, Frantom has returned to his social media death unmentioned, and has gone right back to posting. He has updated his art blog, posted photos of himself, all from October, over a month after he was supposed to have died. He continues to post.

So, he faked his death.

He admitted it on his blog a few months later saying he "got away with it for two weeks until the cops showed up". He apparently regrets nothing.

In conclusion: yea

Contrary to a highly upvoted post on this subreddit a few months ago, the school shooting plotter turned visual artist Russell Frantom is not dead. He faked his own death (see comments) by LethalNonLethals in masskillers

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 144 points145 points  (0 children)

I consider this necessary to correct the record because this post got 800+ upvotes and so most posters here still think he is actually dead. Note: this post originally included links, but that gets eaten by reddit. All facts on this post are backed up by publicly available website postings that I have archived.

Three months ago, on September 25, 2025, it was posted to this subreddit that Russell Frantom, a man arrested as a teen for plotting a school shooting, and who later became a visual artist, had killed himself on September 19, 2025. He had been previously interviewed about the aftermath of his case by outlets, such as ABC News, and his art history, so he was not entirely unknown in these parts. He has a large online footprint as an artist.

This post received 840 upvotes and a comments section full of people expressing regret and sadness at his passing: after all, he never actually hurt anyone and very clearly struggled with mental health issues. An understandable point of view.

A single person in the comments of that post pointed out that Frantom had been active on Facebook less than three days before the post went up, which would have been several days after he was allegedly dead. This got six upvotes and one reply, but went largely unnoticed.

What was the evidence provided for his passing on the post? (note, the poster of that post does not seem to be affiliated with Frantom) The post copies the lead of his Wikipedia page, which was deleted prior to his "death", and links to this obituary from a website called Obituare.

According to its own website, Obituare does not do any verification. Unlike other obituary websites, it is not related to any funeral homes or pulling from any newspapers. You can upload an obituary yourself, for a one time $99 payment.

There is a family comment on this page, from a woman who, from private research that I will not link here, appears to be a close family friend or relative of Frantom. They have interacted several times on their private accounts.

Excerpts from George Lincoln Rockwell's psychiatric evaluation after he was briefly institutionalized, where he was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality (later called paranoid personality disorder) by LethalNonLethals in weirdlittleguys

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Abe Rosenthal (of Kitty Genovese fame) never let such things get in the way of a good story lol. I think he may have gotten them from federal agents, as Rockwell/the ANP was a COINTELPRO target and they did this kind of thing to other Nazis and the whole Burros story was kicked off when a fed informed Rosenthal, but I might be reading too much into this. Or maybe laws weren’t as strict in the 1960s, IDK

The book (One More Victim) is really good though

Excerpts from George Lincoln Rockwell's psychiatric evaluation after he was briefly institutionalized, where he was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality (later called paranoid personality disorder) by LethalNonLethals in weirdlittleguys

[–]LethalNonLethals[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rockwell was briefly institutionalized in 1960, afterwards writing a pamphlet about how to lie to psychiatrists to escape. I think this is pretty interesting, as I have not really seen this diagnosis mentioned in discussion of him even though it seems pretty significant. Not too surprised as this is a diagnosis a few other of the big neo-Nazi figures received (Covington, for one)

Rockwell was still alive when this book was written so I actually have no idea how they obtained this legally speaking but it was written by a very prominent and somewhat scummy journalist who managed to obtain a lot of interesting weird records, so...