Editing Historical negationism (section)

==In fiction==
{{see also|Fahrenheit 451|Alternate history}}

In the novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' (1949) by [[George Orwell]], the government of [[Oceania (fiction)|Oceania]] continually revises historical records to concord with the contemporary political explanations of The Party. When Oceania is at war with [[Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four|Eurasia]], the public records (newspapers, cinema, television) indicate that Oceania has been always at war with Eurasia; yet, when Eurasia and Oceania are no longer fighting each other, the historical records are subjected to negationism; thus, the populace are [[Brainwashing|brainwashed]] to believe that Oceania and Eurasia always have been allies against Eastasia. The protagonist of the story, [[Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Winston Smith]], is an editor in the [[Ministry of Truth]], responsible for effecting the continual historical revisionism that will negate the contradictions of the past upon the contemporary world of Oceania.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/themes.html|title=SparkNotes: 1984: Themes, Motifs & Symbols|access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref><ref>Orwell, George ''Nineteen Eighty-four'' New American Library 1961 {{ISBN|978-0-451-52493-5}}</ref>
To cope with the psychological stresses of life during wartime, Smith begins a diary, in which he observes that "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future", and so illustrates the principal, ideological purpose of historical negationism.<ref>Orwell, George. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yxv1LK5gyV4C ''1984''], [[New American Library]], 1961 {{ISBN|978-0-451-52493-5}}, p. 37.</ref>

[[Franz Kurowski]] was an extremely prolific right-wing German writer who dedicated his entire career to the production of [[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi military propaganda]], followed by post-war military pulp fiction and revisionist histories of [[World War II]], [[Clean Wehrmacht|claiming the humane behaviour and innocence of war crimes]] of the ''[[Wehrmacht]]'', glorifying war as a desirable state, while fabricating eyewitness reports of atrocities allegedly committed by the Allies, especially Bomber Command and the air raids on Cologne and Dresden as a planned genocide of the civilian population.<ref>*{{DNB portal|106231650|NAME=Franz Kurowski}}</ref>