Holocaust Denial : Demographics, Testimonies and Ideologies [Paperback]

John C. Zimmerman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0761818227 | ISBN-13: 978-0761818229 | Publication Date: November 8, 2000

Zimmerman's work is the only book that comprehensively examines the underlying arguments of Holocaust denial. He goes into great depth on the actual arguments that deniers use. Holocaust Denial examines their methodology, use of sources and reasoning process. Historians have been very reluctant to examine denier arguments because they do not want to draw attention to them. But this movement is gaining ground in Europe and Canada, and will only become stronger as the World War II generation passes away. This book will debunk all of the denier arguments. Zimmerman will finally provide the reader who is interested in the actual arguments of denial a means to evaluate their legitimacy. The true value of this book will be realized when the last of that generation is gone. This book is of value to historians and Holocaust scholars, as well as anyone interested in the Holocaust and the denial movement.

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About the Author

John C. Zimmerman is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (November 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761818227
• ISBN-13: 978-0761818229
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,211,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. I wish I'd read it a decade ago., June 15, 2001

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"strongbeliever" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holocaust Denial (Hardcover)

John Zimmerman earns my praise for this strong and compelling book, which expertly analyses the key arguments and sources of Holocaust revisionists.

I rate this book above Professor Lipstadt's and others because it deals carefully, systematically and judiciously with EVIDENCE. Even though Zimmerman admits that he's not an historian by profession, he has done a fine job.

This is probably the best book of its kind.

I only wish Zimmerman had written it earlier. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zimmerman Refutes Deniers, March 27, 2001

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John A Drobnicki (Jamaica, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holocaust Denial (Hardcover)

In this scholarly, well-researched, and well-documented volume, Professor Zimmerman has demonstrated himself to be thoroughly familiar with the primary and secondary source materials of both the Holocaust and Holocaust-denial. What distinguishes this work from other excellent books on the same subject (such as Deborah Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust) is Zimmerman's careful and scientific refutation of their major arguments, including those put forth by Arthur Butz, David Irving, Carlo Mattogno, and Walter Sanning.

Aside from Zimmerman's own historical and demographic research, added bonuses are the appendices, which contain a report by the Institute for Forensic Research in Cracow (which destroys the chemical claims of the so-called "Leuchter Report"), and a report by photo analyst Carroll Lucas on 1944/45 aerial reconnaissance photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which demolishes claims (such as those by John Ball) that negatives and/or photographs have been tampered with.

I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript prior to its publication, as I have known Professor Zimmerman for several years due to our joint work with The Holocaust History Project &.... I highlyrecommend it. ....

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Zimmerman should stick to accounting!, December 6, 2011

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Friedrich P. Berg "Friedrich Paul Berg" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holocaust Denial (Hardcover)

Most Nazi mass gassings were supposedly carried out with the carbon monoxide in the exhaust from diesel engines. John C. Zimmerman who fervently believes this myth included various false arguments and claims on page 155-56 (footnote 12a) about the work of holocaust revisionist Friedrich Paul Berg:

"..., Berg ignored one of the original studies on diesel fumes which shows that the emissions can reach lethal concentrations under the right conditions. John Holtz and M. A. Elliot. 'The Significance of Diesel Exhaust Gas Analysis' 63 Transactions of ASME (1943) 97-105. The authors were able to run two large diesel engines under various loads and fuel ratios. They didn't have any problem making the exhaust highly lethal -- with up to 6% carbon monoxide. The adjustment of the engine to increase the fuel ratio was a trivial process in order to attain the level of toxicity. However, the authors also demonstrated that exhaust is lethal even at normal operating mode -- 2.5% oxygen and 12% carbon dioxide -- without having to adjust the engine. Also , they did not report any damage to the engines as Berg claimed would happen when a diesel engine ran under those conditions. "

Berg ignored nothing as his website proves. Holtz and Elliot according to their 1943 essay certainly were able to run their engines under "various loads and fuel ratios" given the elaborate and expensive "power unit" they had available to them. That "power unit" included an electric brake dynamometer rated at 45 HP with which Holtz and Elliot controlled the engine. There was no "adjustment" or "tuning" of the diesel engines as Zimmerman and some others have claimed. To "tune" a diesel engine is actually a kind of technical absurdity since diesels do not have carburetors. Brake dynamometer arrangements capable of imposing loads of several hundred HP as would have been needed for the engines, for example, of 550-HP Soviet T-34 tanks (supposedly used according to some holocaust claims) would have been extremely expensive--and are still extremely expensive today. But, nothing even remotely comparable has even been suggested for any of the Nazi gassings. There is simply nothing in the claims of "eyewitnesses" to suggest that the engines, except for Chelmno, ran under anything other than "idle" conditions--that is to say "without any load at all."

The Chelmno gassing claims are an exception. Those gassings were supposedly done while the trucks were in motion and presumably operating under the resulting loads on the engine from driving through the countryside. For the alleged "gas van" gassings in the Soviet Union as described in the show trials of Kharkov and Krasnodar in 1943, the homicidal vehicles were first parked to allow the exhaust gas to be redirected into the compartment holding the intended victims. The diesel engines would have been operating at the very worst at merely "fast idle" which yields hardly any carbon monoxide. The claims of the Soviets that victims' bodies were examined "spectroscopically" seem preposterous. Actual autopsy reports have been unavailable in the west and, no doubt, for good reason. At least the Soviets got the supposed color of the corpses right. They claimed the corpses were RED based, no doubt, on many years of gassing their own citizens with CO in vans equipped only with gasoline engines. In western trials, the courts did not even get that right.

"Hey folks, let's just use that little old VW gasoline engine without any brake dynamometer. Why not?" Using a "power unit" to load up a diesel engine just to get a few per cent of CO and/or reduced oxygen would have been totally absurd and insane. The holocaust story is a monstrous hoax as more and more revisionist research, including my own at my website, clearly proves. Nazi gassings never happened! Professor Zimmerman should stick to accounting.

The actual essay by Holtz and Elliot is "The Significance of Diesel-Exhaust-Gas Analysis." Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 63, February 1941. http://www.vho.org/GB/c/FPB/dieselanalysis1.png