Mark Edward Weber (born October 9, 1951) is an American

Holocaust denier Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: *Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...

, who is the director of the

Institute for Historical Review The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is a United States–based nonprofit organization that promotes Holocaust denial. It is considered by many scholars to be central to the international Holocaust denial movement. Self-described as a "his ...

, a United States, California-based Holocaust denial organization. Weber has been associated with the IHR since the 1980s. In 1992 he became editor-in-chief of the IHR's pseudoacademic '' Journal of Historical Review''. Weber was subsequently named the institute's Director in 1995. Weber was born in Portland,

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, in 1951. After graduating from Jesuit High School in 1969, he studied history in

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at the

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. He continued his studies for two semesters at the

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, and, returning to

, took a B.A. degree in history with high honors from

Portland State University Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the next ...

. In graduate school, he continued his study of history at

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, receiving an M.A. degree in modern

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in 1977.Who Are The Holocaust Revisionists?
. ''Skeptic Magazine'' Beginning in 1978 Weber became involved with the National Alliance, a far-right white supremacist organization. In 1979 Weber served as the editor of the group's magazine, the ''National Vanguard''. Throughout the 1980s Weber functioned as the treasurer of the National Alliance's Cosmotheist Church. During this period Weber became more heavily involved with the IHR as well as collaborating with Bradley Smith and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). In 2018, Weber was denied entry to the United Kingdom.

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Institute for Historical Review

Mark Weber:The Professional Denier

A "Holocaust" Debate--Mark Weber vs Michael Shermer

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