The Giant With Feet of Clay : Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks) [Paperback]

Jürgen Graf (Author)

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Series: Holocaust Handbooks | Publication Date: April 25, 2001

Jürgen Graf, born in Switzerland 1951, studied Scandinavian, English and Roman languages at the University of Basel, awarded degree of Magister; instructor by profession; for four years German instructor at Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; Revisionist researcher and historian since 1991.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author

Jürgen Graf, born in Switzerland 1951, studied Scandinavian, English and Roman languages at the University of Basel, awarded degree of Magister; instructor by profession; for four years German instructor at Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; Revisionist researcher and historian since 1991.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Theses & Dissertations Press; 1 edition (April 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967985641
• ISBN-13: 978-0967985640
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,237,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally.....a critical look at a so-called Holocaust Expert!, March 16, 2008

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This review is from: The Giant With Feet of Clay : Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks) (Paperback)

This book represents a milestone. It documents the first time a so-called holocaust expert has been critically questioned and his claims and documentation thoroughly examined instead of being accepted and believed in unquestioningly which, more often than not, is usually the case.

Witness, for example, the fiasco of the ridiculous 'memoirs' of a French 'survivor' who claimed, with a straight face, that she had been raised and sheltered by, incredibly enough, wolves, only to have her story exposed for the fairytale it was but not before a multi-million dollar book and movie deal.

It is the same, over and over. An 'expert' or an 'eyewitness' comes forth with a book of dubious and poorly documented claims which, as a rule, are always treated as 'truth' beyond question and read with an almost religious reverence. Elie Wiesel is another eloquent example. Critical evaluation of his work, however, reveals much - his claims about witnessing, for example, Jews being thrown, via some sort of strange conveyer belt, into a pit of fire being almost laughable, yet this imposter has received, unbelievably, the Nobel Peace Prize, is treated with nauseating deference on shows like 'Oprah Winfrey' and gets away with his ludicrous (and lucrative) charades year after year.

Raul Hilberg engaged in similar shenanagins.....until now, that is.

Painstakingly, Jurgen Graf picks apart Hilberg's 'research', examines carefully his performance under cross-examination at the Toronto trial of Ernst Zundel and exposes this charlatan for what he is.....a falsifier of history and a liar.

Hilberg obviously learned his lesson, for he refused to return as a prosecution witness at Zundel's re-trial three years later. And not only that! He promptly put out a 'revised' edition of his 'work' The Destruction of the European Jews to plug at least some of the holes exposed in earlier editions. Nice try, Raul, but your book is still a tissue of lies - full of bald assumptions as well as references, quotes and documents that don't check out or are deliberately falsified or taken out of context.

Hats off to Jurgen Graf for his magnificent expose. His 'Giant With Feet of Clay' should be standard reference in any classroom discussion about this so-called 'Holocaust'.

28 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing a four flusher, December 13, 2003

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This review is from: The Giant With Feet of Clay : Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks) (Paperback)

The Giant with Feet of Clay is Raul Hillberg, the acknowledged authority on the Holocaust, and his three volume series, The Destruction of the European Jews, which is often called the "standard work" on the subject. Graf's book is an analysis of that work that especially concentrates on the portion that deals with the evidence for the industrial scale killing by gas, which is at the core of the holocaust myth.

After forthrightly stating that Hillberg's description of the persecution and deportations of the Jews during World War II is generally accepted, historically accurate and based on reliable sources, Graf energetically, and even with unseemly enthusiasm, tears apart the evidence he cites for the mass killings.

One surprising observation that he makes is that out of three volumes of 1351 pages, only 19 deal with the central fixture of the legend, the killings in gas chambers. I found the portion of the book that deals with each of the eyewitnesses cited by Hillberg to be particularly persuasive. He describes what each witness claimed according to Hillberg, and compared it to what else they claimed, not cited by Hillberg, thus utterly destroying their credibility. His general argument against the reliability of eyewitness accounts, is common sense, but usually ignored in matters of theology.

Graf's destruction of Hillberg's treatment of the census data, statistics and demographics is also very persuasive and shows to any reader with even a modicum of discernment that Hillberg is an amateurish mountebank who works backwards from the desired answer to guesses and unreasonable assumptions.

This book is one that Hillberg and other tradesmen will never refute in any way. They cannot afford to bring any attention to it.

19 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Graf at his BEST!, January 23, 2002

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This review is from: The Giant With Feet of Clay : Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks) (Paperback)

A revisionist classic that questions the Holocaust facts in a scholarly and academic and non-hateful and very loving way. Yet the publisher, Germar Rudolf, is in jail in Germany for THOUGHT CRIMES for writing "Lectures on the Holocaust."

In this remarkable, balanced book, the author skillfully reviews and compares traditional and revisionist views on the The Holocaust.

On one side is the traditional, orthodox view -- six million Jewish casualties, gas chambers, cremation ovens, mass graves, and thousands of witnesses. On the other is the view of a small band of skeptical writers and researchers, often unfairly labeled deniers, who contend that the public has been gravely misled about this emotion-laden chapter of history.

The author establishes that the arguments and findings of revisionist scholars are substantive, and deserve serious consideration. He points out, for example, that even the eminent Jewish Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg acknowledged that there was no budget, plan or order by Hitler for a World War II program to exterminate Europes Jews.

This book is especially relevant right now, as Holocaust deniers are routinely and harshly punished for their blasphemy, and as growing numbers of people regard the standard, Hollywoodized Holocaust narrative with mounting suspicion and distrust.

This is no peripheral debate between arcane views of some obscure aspect of twentieth century history. Instead, this is a clash with profound social-political implications regarding freedom of speech and press, the manipulation of public opinion, how our cultural life is shaped, and how power is wielded in our society.