Mark Weber

Mark Weber (b. Portland, Oregon, October 9, 1951) is president of the Legion for the Survival of Freedom and director of the Institute for Historical Review, an American Holocaust denial organization.

Weber has been associated with the IHR since 1991 and has been the Institute Director since 1995. He has also been associated with and maintains contact with the National Alliance.

Weber was born in Portland, Oregon in 1951. After graduating from Jesuit High School in 1969, he studied history in Chicago at the University of Illinois. He continued his studies for two semesters at the University of Munich, and, returning to Oregon, took a B.A. degree in history with high honors from Portland State University. In graduate school, he continued the pursuit of history at Indiana University, receiving an M.A. degree in modern European history in 1977.

Weber then traveled in Europe and Africa, where he secured a position as a teacher of history, geography, and English in Ghana. Returning to the United States, he spent five years in Washington, D.C. conducting research at the National Archives and the Library of Congress into the German wartime Jewish policy and issues related to the Holocaust.

He has two children: a daughter born in 1996, and a son born in 1998.
 
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