Denying the Holocaust : the growing assault on truth and memory

Book 1993

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Forty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; the...

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Antisemitism United States History 20th century

Holocaust denial

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography

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ISBN:

9780029192351
0029192358

Description:

ix, 278 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271) and index

Contents:

1. Canaries in the mine : Holocaust denial and the limited power of reason
2. Antecedents : history, conspiracy, and fantasy
3. In the shadow of World War II : denial's initial steps
4. First stirrings of denials in America
5. Austin J. App : the world of immoral equivalencies
6. Denial : a tool of the radical right
7. Entering the mainstream : the case of Arthur Butz
8. The Institute for Historical Research
9. Gas chamber controversy
10. The Battle for campus
11. Watching on the Rhine : the future course of Holocaust denial
Appendix : Twisting the truth : zyklon-B, the gas chambers, and the Diary of Anne Frank

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93009952 //r97

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48004

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