Denying the Holocaust : the growing assault on truth and memory with a new preface by the author
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Denying the Holocaust : the growing assault on truth and memory with a new preface by the author
(Penguin books)
Penguin, 1994
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"This book is a research project of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem" - t.p.vrso
First published in the U.S. by The Free Press, 1993
First published in U.K. by Penguin Books, 1994
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Everyone is familiar with the haunting and powerful images of death in the Nazi concentration camps, especially with films such as "Schindler's List". Yet there is a growing faction that denies that these events ever took place. This book investigates this trend in holocaust denial.
Table of Contents
- Canaries in the mine - Holocaust denial and the limited power of reason
- the antecedents - history, conspiracy, and fantasy
- in the shadow of World War 2 - denial's first steps
- the first stirrings of denial in America
- Austin J. App - the world of immoral equivalencies
- denial - a tool of the radical right
- entering the mainstream - the case of Arthur Butz
- the Institute for Historical Review
- the gas chamber controversy
- the battle for the campus
- 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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