Political Orientation
The ZFI was founded in 1981 and shaped by Alfred Schickel, Hellmut Diwald and Alfred Seidl, in opposition to the renowned Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institut für Contemporary History) in Munich. It has about 500 to 600 members. It organizes large meetings twice a year, and publishes the Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek and the ZFI-Informationen. Stephen E. Atkins has stated that the ZFI is a Holocaust denial institution in Germany, while the head of the ZFI, Alfred Schickel, is careful to avoid German restrictions against disputing the Holocaust and has concentrated on what Atkins describes as “so-called Allied atrocities against the Germans”. For instance, Schickel wrote in 1980 that the number of six millions Jews killed in the Holocaust was “no longer advocated seriously today in contemporary historical science”. "The ZFI rejects the findings of historical research, and uses ideologically based Pseudohistory. In doing so, it creates a "parallel universe" isolated from scholarly discourse by self-referencing to its own publications." In conferences and meetings, National Socialism is trivialized, and the German guilt for the Second World War is denied. This happens in close collaboration with periodicals such as Europa Vorn, Nation und Europa und Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart, which pursue similar goals. The founders of ZFI, who except for Schickel have died, have collaborated with historical revisionist and Radical right organizations. Former GDR policeman Bernd Wagner regarded the ZFI in 1994 as "one of the intellectual centers of far right historical revisionism in Germany".
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