Austin Joseph App was an American professor of medieval English literature who taught at the University of Scranton and La Salle University.
14 Facts About Austin App
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Austin App is known for his work denying the Holocaust, and he has been called the first major American Holocaust denier.
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Austin App studied English Literature at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he received a Ph.
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Austin App served as an instructor of English at Catholic University of America from 1929 to 1935.
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Austin App wrote for The Catholic Home Journal, Magnificat, Queen's Work, and The Victorian.
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Austin App wrote many letters to the editors of magazines and newspapers.
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Austin App complained about the American declaration of war on Germany, and argued that without American intervention the Axis Powers would have won World War II.
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Austin App blamed Jews and communists for Germany's postwar problems.
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Austin App became president of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent in 1945, serving in this position for several years.
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Austin App later founded The Boniface Press and served as an editor there.
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Austin App served on the editorial advisory committee of the revisionist Journal of Historical Review from 1980 until his death.
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Austin App laid out eight axioms, or what he described as "incontrovertible assertions", about the Holocaust in his 1973 pamphlet The Six Million Swindle: Blackmailing the German People for Hard Marks With Fabricated Corpses, which denied the existence of gas chambers and tried to show it was impossible for six million Jews to have been killed.
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Austin App published A Straight Look at the Third Reich, a defense of Nazi Germany, and The Curse of Anti-Anti-Semitism, arguing that the entire Jewish community is responsible for the death of Christ.
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Austin App's work inspired the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial center in California, founded in 1978.