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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory By Deborah E. Lipstadt

In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not only continued to gain adherents but has become an internationally organized movement.



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A forceful analysis of attempts to deny the Nazi Holocaust. Lipstadt (Religion/Emory University; Beyond Belief, 1985--not reviewed) traces the history of Holocaust revisionism and contends that it can no longer be ignored, showing how Holocaust-deniers, once dismissed as a lunatic fringe, have been growing in numbers and influence during the past 20 years. Citing groups like the Institute for Historical Review, publications like The Spotlight, politicians like David Duke, and academicians like Leonard Jeffries, Lipstadt presents numerous examples of attempts to prove that the extermination of six million Jews is a hoax; that only a few thousand Jews died in the camps from disease; that the Allied bombings of German cities were worse than any Nazi offense; and that the ``true victims'' of WW II were the German people. These distortions of recorded history, argues the author, threaten to undermine our Western rationalist tradition and to legitimize the politicization of history. To Lipstadt, the common thread among Holocaust deniers is a ``purely anti-Semitic diatribe'' portraying Jews as victimizers. Self-declared scholars like Arthur R. Butz (whose credentials are in electronics) claim that Jews used the world's sympathy after the war to ``displace'' another people, establish the nation of Israel, and ``steal'' billions in reparations from their German and Western ``cash cows.'' Lipstadt argues vehemently against giving revisionists a forum in the name of free speech or freedom of the press, and she details the efforts of California revisionist Bradley Smith, who pushed a ``Holocaust was a hoax'' campaign in college newspapers throughout the US. Lipstadt contends that ``the responses to Holocaust denial by both students and faculty graphically demonstrate the susceptibility of an educated and privileged segment to the kind of reasoning that creates a hospitable climate for the rewriting of history.'' An important, well-documented study that deserves attention. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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It really upsets me to read that the world is still so full of Nazi scum. On the other hand: Israel is not exactly setting a good example by inflicting unnecessary pain and suffering on their neighbors.

Yo, mhornbach

hope u don't miss robin-bobin's post above, "An Eye for an Eye"! r u one of the multitude brain-erased goyim worked over by the jew guilt-milking machine? or r u just a jewish apologist?

YES, Nazi Germany ran prison camps, just like EVERY other country on this shithole rock. And YES many died there under whatever circumstance. SO WHAT! rack the score up against Stalins estimated 35 +- million murdered or Mao's 65+ million cleansing. That makes Hitler's alleged 6 mil count paltry by comparison. So what gives here on the guilt-milking. Easy on the "Nazi scum" reference. HUMANS r the scum! The guilt-milker 'chews r bigger scumBAGS becuz they r looking to cash $$$ in on the tale.

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