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((Short description|Professor of literature and Holocaust denier (1902–1984)))
((Infobox person
| name          = Austin Joseph App
| birth_name    = Austin Joseph App	
| birth_date    = May 24, 1902 
| birth_place   = [[Milwaukee]], Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date    = May 4, 1984
| nationality   = German-American
| occupation    = Literature professor
))
((More citations needed|date=May 2022))
'''Austin Joseph App''' (May 24, 1902 – May 3, 1984)<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''Holocaust Denial as an International Movement'' (Wesport, CT: Praeger, 2009), pp. 153-155.</ref> was an American professor of medieval English literature who taught at the [[University of Scranton]] and [[La Salle University]].<ref name="hdaaim">((cite book |last=Atkins |first=Stephen E. |title=Austin J. App and Holocaust Denial |work=Holocaust denial as an international movement |publisher=Praeger |year=2009 |isbn=9780313345388 |location=Westport, Conn. |pages=153–55))</ref> App defended [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]].<ref>((cite book|title=Crimes of Hate: Selected Readings|year=2003|publisher=Sage|isbn=978-0761929437|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Keq9mGEb0AC&pg=PA190|author=Diana R. Grant|editor=Phyllis Gertenfield|page=190))</ref> He is known for his work denying the [[Holocaust]], and he has been called the first major American [[Holocaust denier]].<ref>((cite book|last=Knight|first=Peter|title=Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1576078129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA322|page=322))</ref>

==Early life and education== 
App was born in [[Milwaukee]], on May 24, 1902, to [[Germans|German]] immigrant parents who were farmers, he attended [[Saint Francis de Sales Seminary|St. Francis Seminary]] near Milwaukee and graduated in 1923. He studied English Literature at the [[Catholic University of America]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], where he received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1929. 

==Career==
App served as an instructor of English at [[Catholic University of America]] from 1929 to 1935. From 1935 to 1942 he served as the head of the English Department at the [[University of Scranton]], publishing widely in scholarly and popular journals. He wrote for ''The Catholic Home Journal'', ''Magnificat'', ''Queen's Work'', and ''[[The Victorian]].''<ref>Lucey, William L. “Catholic Magazines: 1894-1900.” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 63.4 (1952), pp. 197–223. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44210489. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.</ref> By his own account, he was particularly devoted to the cultural value of good manners, well-developed public speaking, and chivalry.<ref>[http://www.catholicauthors.com/app.html Autobiographical Speech held by App].</ref>((Third-party inline|date=May 2022)) 

App never married. He was a frequent public speaker. He wrote many letters to the editors of magazines and newspapers. He complained about the [[United States declaration of war upon Germany (1941)|American declaration of war on Germany]], and argued that without American intervention the [[Axis Powers]] would have won World War II. He blamed Jews and [[communists]] for Germany's postwar problems. Few of his letters were published.<ref>See chapter 5 in Deborah E. Lipstadt: ''Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory'', 2012.</ref>

In a manner of criticism typical for his generation, App often examined literary aesthetics according to categories of virtue and truth. In a collection of essays printed in 1948, he argued for a Christian interpretation of literature in chapters titled “Presenting Sin and Temptation in Literature” and “How to Judge a Novel Ethically.”<ref>Austin Joseph App: ''The true concept of literature: eight reprinted and two original articles.'' San Antonio: Mission Press, 1948.</ref>((Third-party inline|date=May 2022))

He became president of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent in 1945, serving in this position for several years. In the 1950s, App often wrote articles for [[Conde McGinley]]'s [[antisemitic]] journal ''Common Sense''.<ref name="hdaaim" /> He later founded The Boniface Press and served as an editor there. It was named after [[Saint Boniface]], the Anglo-Saxon missionary who brought the faith to Germanic Europe. He served on the editorial advisory committee of the revisionist [[Journal of Historical Review]] from 1980 until his death.((Third-party inline|date=May 2022))

===Holocaust denial===
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 [[Nazi gas chambers|gas chambers]] and tried to show it was impossible for six million Jews to have been killed''.''<ref>((Cite book |last=Falk |first=Avner |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/649479458 |title=Anti-semitism : a history and psychoanalysis of contemporary hatred |date=2008 |publisher=Praeger |isbn=978-0-313-35385-7 |location=Westport, Conn. |oclc=649479458))</ref><ref>((Cite book |last=Stier |first=Oren Baruch |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930024289 |title=Holocaust Icons : symbolizing the Shoah in history and memory |date=2015 |isbn=978-0-8135-7405-9 |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |oclc=930024289))</ref><ref name="hdaaim" />

In February 1976, App published an article "The Sudeten-German Tragedy" in ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' magazine, criticizing the [[Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia|post-World War II expulsion of the Sudeten Germans]] as "one of the worst mass atrocities in history."<ref>((cite journal |first=Austin J |last=App |title=The Sudeten-German Tragedy |journal=Reason |date=February 1976 |pages=28–33 |authorlink=Austin App ))</ref> The article was later printed as a pamphlet.((Third-party inline|date=May 2022)) 

App also 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 [[Jewish deicide|responsible for the death of Christ]].<ref name="hdaaim" /> App's work inspired the [[Institute for Historical Review]], a Holocaust denial center in California, founded in 1978.((Third-party inline|date=May 2022))

== Selected works ==
((Cleanup list|section|date=May 2022))
*''Lancelot in English Literature: His Role and Character'', doctoral dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1929
*''Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Arthurian Poems'', in: Thought 10.3 (1935), p.468-479
*''History's Most Terrifying Peace.'' 1947
*''Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe.'' Pamphlet, 1948 
*''The Way to Creative Writing''. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishers, 1954
*''Making the Later Years Count. For a healthy, well-provided, blessed Old Age''. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishers, 1960 
*''The Rooseveltian concentration camps for Japanese-Americans, 1942-46''. Philadelphia: Boniface Press, 1967
*''A straight look at the Third Reich: Hitler and National Socialism, how right? how wrong?'' Takoma Park, Maryland: Boniface Press, 1974
*''The Six Million Swindle: Blackmailing the German People for Hard Marks with Fabricated Corpses.'' Takoma Park, Maryland: Boniface Press, 1973. Second edition printed in 1976.
*''The Curse of Anti-Anti-Semitism.'' 1976
*''German-American Voice for Truth and Justice: Autobiography''. Takoma Park, Maryland: Boniface Press, 1977
*''The Sudeten-German Tragedy''. Takoma Park, Maryland: Boniface Press, 1979- (several volumes)

==References==
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==Sources== 
* [http://www.catholicauthors.com/app.html Autobiographical Speech held by App], accessed 27 Oct 2020. 

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