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  • Paperback: 506 pages
  • Publisher: Theses & Dissertation Press; 3rd edition (September 20, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0967985692
  • ISBN-13: 978-0967985695
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 9.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
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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 The Hoax remains at the center of the revisionist inquiry, valuable even in those few areas in which it has been superseded by subsequent revisionist research: a book that, especially in this handsome new design and printing, needs to be read, and re-read, then read again, by every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. --David Irving

"We have known about it ["The Hoax of the Twentieth Century"] for some time. But we didn't want to give it any publicity and help the sales. Now it's too late; it's out in the open and we have to face it squarely." --Abbot A. Rosen, Chicago Executive Director, ADL, "Pittsburgh Press", Jan. 26, 1977 ---Abbot A. Rosen,

The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century was one of the earliest revisionist works and probably the hardest to refute ever since it was first published; indeed mainstream authors (cough) have always been wary of engaging Butz in any kind of controversy. The book is a sweeping examination of some of the finer details, in which we know the devil himself resides, of the "Jewish holocaust", covering so many different topics that it can rightly be considered a sort of miniature "holocaust" encyclopaedia; from Jewish population statistics to "war-crimes" trials to the industrial and economic role of prison camps to the reliability of the eyewitnesses to the history of the magic "6 million" number to the evolution of the propaganda stories to the aerial photography, and so on. My only criticism is a very general one, the fact that it is so all- (or nearly all-)encompassing the treatment of many of the individual subjects is, whilst still impossible to refute and at the time of publication groundbreaking, sometimes relatively superficial. These have of course all been expanded upon in other works in the Holocaust Handbook series. The truth is that this should be the first book in the series; for anyone who generally reads series of books in order the knowledge gained after reading 6 heavyweight volumes preceding this one slightly dilutes its impact. Therefore the criticism probably should more rightly be aimed at the publishers of the series. Still highly recommended for anyone new to the subject - indeed, read this first! - and for any serious students who have not read it, it is certainly worth reading for completeness and to see the evolution of the revisionist case. It should also be pointed out that anyone negatively reviewing such a technical work must of course give valid technical reasons why any part of the thesis is invalid. Without exception so far, negative reviewers have given the sum total of zero valid technical reasons for their negative reviews, going instead with emotion, preconception and ignorance of technical realities. It should also be stated that, again without exception, anyone in the future who negatively reviews this work quite categorically has not read it. I say this with total confidence - indeed, I challenge any naysayer to convincingly refute a single word Butz wrote - and for a very good reason: it is impossible to refute the truth. --SmokeNMirrors (London) -

About the Author

Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota in 1965. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he is now Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dr. Butz is the author of numerous technical papers.

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137 of 161 people found the following review helpful By Eric Rachut on February 17, 2011
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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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36 of 42 people found the following review helpful By Laura B. on February 2, 2014
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Arthur Butz has cogently and meticulously torn to tatters the audacious lie that is the holocaust. Any honest and objective person who believes in the holocaust that reads this book will emerge with a world view that has been literally deconstructed. It is that persuasive.
Here are just a few well documented facts that have been kept from us for over sixty years. 1. The Germans who were prosecuted for gassings during the trials at Nuremberg had their confessions extracted by torture. 2. Not one piece of verifiable physical evidence for the supposed gassing of anyone has ever been produced ( no functional gas chamber, not one autopsied body that died of cyanide poisoning, no corroborating German documents, you name it ). 3. The pictures of naked dead bodies being bulldozed into mass graves, seered into your brain since you were a child, died of a massive typhus epidemic. They weren't gassed.
Once you realize the terrible and far reaching implications of this massive lie ( media and academia that are utterly controlled by the criminal state of Israel, the JFK assassination and coup d'état, The false flag mass murders of 9/11 and subsequent illegal wars, etc.) you find yourself in an uncomfortable position. You will either become a dissident or a coward. I therefore advise that you proceed with caution.
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful By C. Schwartz on December 20, 2013
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Many people come into this world steeped in WW II era created propaganda. Because that is all that they are exposed to. They assume it is true. And they end up becoming emotionally involved. They cry when they see all the Holocaust movies. They rant feverishly at the Nazis as the ultimate evil allowed by God to ever exist on the face of the earth and they shout out "Never Again !!!". I have done this very thing. For most of my life. I defended rabidly against any "Holocaust Denial". Blindly I see now, but in faith. For me the door creaked open when I learned that people have been incarcerated for years and heavily fined in some countries for just questioning the orthodox Holocaust story. I asked myself. "What kind of truth needs enforcement ?". I started to smell something funny. Read this book. There was much tragedy in WWII for many people. Enough that it doesn't need to be exaggerated. You will also see that there is an agenda involved in respect to the enforcement of the orthodox holocaust story. You can witness this agenda in many of the reviews that are made against this book. When you see a book on this or related subjects with half 1 star reviews and half 5 star reviews, you likely have found something worth reading. Read this book. For yourself.
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78 of 97 people found the following review helpful By Pen name on 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.
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