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The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry [Paperback]

Arthur R. Butz (Author)
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1992 0939484463 978-0939484461
Professor A. R. Butz was the first (and so far the only) writer to treat the entire Holocaust complex from the Revisionist perspective, in a precise scientific manner. This book exhibits the overwhelming force of historical and logical arguments which Revisionism had accumulated by the middle of the 70s. This new edition comes with several supplements adding new information.

The first book to treat the central questions of the Holocaust allegation -- the evidence for a German extermination program, for mass killings by poison gas, and for the deaths of some six million Jews -- with academic rigor, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century created Holocaust revisionism as a discipline with its appearance in 1976. Few professional historians could have devised the brilliant investigative strategy that is central to The Hoax: author Arthur Butz's focus on the information long available to the Allies on the operations of Auschwitz, a strategically important petrochemical center (Butz correctly surmised the existence of U.S. aerial photos of the camp years before it was admitted). The Hoax's several chapters on the question of Allied knowledge of Auschwitz have busied orthodox experts for nearly three decades with trying to explain how mass operations seem to have gone unnoticed for several years -- to no avail. The Hoax remains at the center of the revisionist inquiry, valuable even in those few areas in which it has been superseded by subsequent revisionist research: a book that, especially in this handsome new design and printing, needs to be read, and re-read, then read again, by every serious revisionist.

This new edition comes with several supplements adding new information gathered by the author over the last 25 years.
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  • Paperback: 397 pages
  • Publisher: Noontide Pr (1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0939484463
  • ISBN-13: 978-0939484461
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,016,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WHERE IS VOLTAIRE?, February 17, 2011
The real issue here is not whether exactly six million Jews (and others) were deliberately put to death by National Socialist Germany, but whether books that we, on the surface, dislike, are to be permitted a reading audience.

How many of the reviewers who trashed this book actually read it? One, whose contribution is entitled "Vile Antisemiticism," has written a review of another book on the topic, by Bradley Smith, also entitled "Vile Antisemiticism" and also including the phrase "pathetic, offensive and slyly illogical."

How many members of the American Library Association, who sponsor Banned Books Week, went to the defense of David Irving when he was imprisoned in Austria for a politically unpopular opinion (the one in THIS book)? How many outlets of the chain booksellers would put this book and others like it on display for Banned Books Week?

You can obtain this title through Amazon and at independent bookstores. Try your local library, or the library of the nearest Institution of Higher Learning, or a chain bookstore.

A sister in law of mine, a graduate of Northwestern, discussed Dr. Butz (he is a prof there) and his work. His name gave her an expression of disgust. When I asked her whether she had actually read his book, the answer was, of course, no.

Every champion of liberty should read Marx's "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon."

Every Christian should read the works of the opponents (the Patristic Fathers quoted the Gnostics accurately and at length).

If you haven't done this things and if you attack books like this without reading them, you are no better than any other fanatic and demagogue.
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39 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, of Historic Importance -- but get the 2nd edition, March 4, 2010
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This is one of those books which, whether you love it or hate it, truly stands apart from historiography, because the book itself makes history. Mainly, more than any other in the U.S. this is the classic, defining book of holocaust revisionism (or denial if you prefer).

Butz, a computer science prof. at Northwestern University near Chicago, builds an overwhelming case for his thesis, and presents it in the hard-nosed, academically sophisticated, rigorous, peer-reviewed style and forensic diction that make it a serious piece of work. No intelligent person can read this and not be impressed by his thoroughness, and also, not be deeply disturbed by the wider implications. But that's another story.

Rather than give you a tedious synopsis of it, I just want to post this review to point out a couple of things. (a) Butz has updatde the 25-year-old original with a new 2nd edition a few years ago, which I believe he makes available online as a pdf download. (b) Butz's book, good as it is, has been complemented by many others since, which have taken the discussion to the next level. I am not saying Butz's work is dated, but that it has been fleshed out and supported admirably by many others. I am thinking of Robt Faurisson and Germar Rudoph especially, but there are many many others. Of course the Institute for Historical Research, which was founded after Butz's first edition, has filled a small library with addition research on this subject. Butz was the ground-breaking inspiration for much that has followed, so again, this is history-making in itself.

None of this takes away from Butz's accomplisment in this early book, which I still regard as the single best introduction to revisionism in English; but I would have to say that,equally, The Rudolph Report ( a free download ), written within the past decade, is also now indispensable as a complement (emphasizing the forensic, architectural and operational issues at Birkenau, which are almost completely lacking in Butz's book, as I recall).
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74 of 102 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Truly Objective and Iluminating Account, December 26, 2001
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Although it can get a bit technical at times, Dr. Butz's book allows the reader to understand better alternative viewpoints regarding the treatment of Jewish deportees during the Second World War. Time will always allow a more objective treatment of historical events and this book, written in 1975, is an important contribution in this respect. Anyone with an interest in what really happened to the Jews during the Nazi era and willing to consider documented fact left out of the information mainstream owes it to him or herself a thorough study of this work. Highly recommended!!
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The "war crimes trials," which the victors in World War 11 conducted, mainly of Germans but also of many Japanese, were precedent-shattering in their scope and in the explicitness of the victorious powers' claims to some sort of legal jurisdiction in respect of laws or understandings, which did not exist at the time they were allegedly broken by the Axis powers. Read the first page
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