Michael A. Hoffman II

Michael A. Hoffman II
Born Michael Anthony Hoffman II
1957 (age 57–58)
Geneva, New York
Known for Holocaust denial
Conspiracy theories
Website
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/

Michael Anthony Hoffman II (born 1957)[1] is an American Holocaust denier[2][3] and conspiracy researcher/theorist.[1][2]

Biography

Hoffman was born to a Catholic family in 1957 in Geneva, New York.[1] His father, the chief of physical therapy at Clifton Springs Hospital, was German-American.[1] His mother was Italian-American.[1] According to biographical information on the back cover of his book Judaism Discovered, Hoffman studied at the State University of New York at Oswego under Dr. Richard Funk and Dr. Faiz Abu-Jaber, father of Diana Abu-Jaber.

Hoffman was reportedly taught at an early age about William Morgan, whose disappearance in 1826 resulted in the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party.[1] He said that he learned from his maternal grandfather that elections in the United States were rigged by organized crime.[1] From this, Hoffman was said to have deduced that "[n]othing is at seems to be," which in turn led to a "life long vocation, researching the subterranean workings of the occult cryptocracy's orchestration of American history".[1] He has worked on the projects of neo-Nazi Tom Metzger and of the Holocaust deniers Willis Carto, David Irving, Ernst Zündel, and Herman Otten.[4] Moreover, he served as Assistant Director of the Institute for Historical Review.[5] He has also edited the work of alternative publisher Adam Parfrey.[6]

Hoffman claims to have operated an organic farm and to have lived among the Amish for several years. In 1995, Hoffman moved with his family to Idaho.[1] There, he hoped to establish a museum that would detail the "Communist holocaust against Christians" (i.e., the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union), "the holocaust against the Germans", (i.e., the bombing of Dresden and other major German cities in World War II), and the "Holocaust against Japan" (i.e., the incineration of Tokyo and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).[1]

Publications

Hoffman is the author of eight self-published works:

Hoffman has also written the introductions for modern reprints, which he also published, of:

Hoffman has written articles for the UK-based magazine Fortean Times,[8] as well as the Lutheran newspaper Christian News of New Haven, MO, which is published by Otten.[9] He has claimed to have worked as a reporter for the Albany, New York, bureau of the Associated Press. His principal research interests are historical revisionism, the alleged occult roots of Freemasonry, the command ideology of the Cryptocracy, Fortean phenomena, and the sacred texts of Orthodox Judaism.[10]

He also wrote the script for the 1989 publication, Tales of the Holohoax which landed Simon Sheppard in jail.[11]

Views

Economics

Hoffman is the author of Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not (2013). He argues that Jewish money-lenders have been scapegoated by gentile and Christian usurers in order to deflect attention from Renaissance Roman Catholic and late Protestant usury banking.

Holocaust

Hoffman denies that six million Jews were exterminated, in gas chambers in Auschwitz and other camps or by other means, during World War II. For that reason he has been labeled a holocaust denier. Hoffman has responded to the charge by stating: "Judaic people suffered severe and unconscionable persecution during World War II, including mass murder at the hands of the Nazis. I deplore these crimes and the criminal Nazi ideology which inspired and directed them."[12] Hoffman has written and lectured extensively on his allegation that the terms Holocaust and Holocaust denial are, according to him, representative of Orwellian Newspeak and religious mania and hysteria.[13]

Cryptocracy

Hoffman is the author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare which outlines his conspiracy theory of a shadow government or "cryptocracy"[1] that gains power through manipulation of symbols and twilight language. Examples of such "psychodramas," in Hoffman's view, include Route 66 (which connects various centers of occult significance), and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in which Hoffman sees ritualistic elements.[1] The theory of masonic symbolism in the assassination of President Kennedy was first articulated by James Shelby Downard, with whom Hoffman co-authored King/Kill-33 which became the inspiration for a song by Marilyn Manson.[14]

Hoffman also states that the gnosis of this ruling cabal is slowly being revealed through movies such as They Live and The Matrix and other forms of symbolic and subliminal communication.[1] Hoffman has appeared on the Alex Jones radio show to discuss his theories. In a 2002 lecture in Sandpoint, Idaho, Hoffman analyzed the 9/11 terror attack in terms of human alchemy and psychological warfare[15]

Jews and Judaism

According to Mattias Gardell: "Antisemitism is prominent... in the worldview of Michael Hoffman II".[1] Hoffman described the verdict in Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt as "another revisionist weed pushing itself up through hairline cracks in the Jewish concrete that covers our planet."[3] Hoffman believes that most Ashkenazic Jews are not descended from the Biblical patriarchs, but from the Khazars. He cites Israeli scholar Eran Elhaik[16] and Shlomo Sand[17] as his sources. Hoffman claims the Talmud is anti-semitic in its oppressive micro-management of Jewish lives. In writing intended for Jewish readers he stated, "Our mission is your salvation and freedom from the shackles of Talmudic evil and oppression. With regard to you, our attitude is one of pidyon shevuyim.[18]

Slavery

Hoffman is also the author of They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold Story of Enslavement of Whites in Early America.[19] According to Derrick Jensen, Hoffman is "overtly racist" and "attempts to make the case that the enslavement of whites by commercial interests in Britain and the Americas was worse than the enslavement and genocide of Africans... perpetrated by those same interests."[19] Jensen said "Hoffman's analysis is seriously flawed" but that "his scholarship is impressive, and the story he tells is both interesting and horrifying".[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Duke University Press. pp. 98–100, 363. ISBN 9780822330714. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barkun, Michael (2003). "Millennialism, Conspiracy, and Stigmatized Knowledge". A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780520238053. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 van Pelt, Robert Jan (2002). "Preface and Acknowledgements". The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780253340160. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ Christian News, Dec. 10, 2012, p. 5
  5. ↑ Journal of Historical Review, vol. 6, no. 4, Spring, 1986
  6. ↑ Apocalypse Culture Feral House, 1987
  7. ↑ Originally published in 1985 by the Institute for Historical Review
  8. ↑ Fortean Times, issue no. 30.
  9. ↑ Dec. 10, 2012, p. 5
  10. ↑ Paul Rydeen, "Through a Hoffman Lens Darkly," Crash Collusion,
  11. ↑ Simon_Sheppard_(activist)#Criminal_convictions_and_imprisonment
  12. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Hoffman/e/B004RK01W6/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
  13. ↑ Overcoming Holocaust Newspeak (speech in Tampa, Florida, August, 1998, recorded on audio CD as listed in the Independent History and Research 2012 catalog p. 5); Revisionist History Newsletter no. 7 (Aug.-Sept. 1998); The Psychology and Epistemology of Holocaust Newspeak (http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p467_Hoffman.html)
  14. ↑ http://www.nachtkabarett.com/KennedyKingKill33
  15. ↑ Inside the 9/11 Conspiracy, [Audio CD, 2002].
  16. ↑ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.1092.pdf
  17. ↑ http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/
  18. ↑ Judaism Discovered, [2008], p. 39
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Jensen, Derrick (2004). "Power". The Culture of Make Believe. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company. p. 78. ISBN 9781603581837.

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