ABSTRACT
A global survey of all cases in which historians–or, to be more precise, history producers–were killed for political reasons throughout history should enable the reader to gain an idea of the magnitude of the phenomenon of history censorship through physical elimination. The database covers the span from the dawn of time to 2017 and contains 428 history producers killed for political reasons. In general, history-related reasons were not dominant in the killing of history producers: if they were present, they appeared mostly in combination with other political reasons in fluctuating proportions. Death squads in their service targeted those unruly academics and intellectuals who were "suspect" for religious or political reasons. Nowhere, not even in the territories occupied by Nazi Germany, were more history producers killed for political reasons than in the USSR in these 15 years. Lamentably, the present age is no exception; it even has the worst record.
