Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
107 used & new from $0.77

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
 
 
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get yours here.
 
  

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Paperback)

by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Author) "The producer was incredulous..." (more)
Key Phrases: six million swindle, other deniers, homicidal gas chambers, United States, Nazi Germany, New York (more...)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)

List Price: $17.00
Price: $11.56 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
You Save: $5.44 (32%)
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Only 4 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

36 new from $3.00 69 used from $0.77 2 collectible from $19.99

Frequently Bought Together

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory + Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial + History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)
Price For All Three: $40.02

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)

by Deborah E. Lipstadt
3.9 out of 5 stars (35)  $12.71
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?

by Michael Shermer
4.3 out of 5 stars (43)  $17.05
Survival In Auschwitz

Survival In Auschwitz

by Primo Levi
4.5 out of 5 stars (79)  $10.98
The Holocaust in American Life

The Holocaust in American Life

by Peter Novick
4.1 out of 5 stars (31)  $11.53
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning
4.4 out of 5 stars (58)  $11.69
Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews
A forceful analysis of attempts to deny the Nazi Holocaust. Lipstadt (Religion/Emory University; Beyond Belief, 1985--not reviewed) traces the history of Holocaust revisionism and contends that it can no longer be ignored, showing how Holocaust-deniers, once dismissed as a lunatic fringe, have been growing in numbers and influence during the past 20 years. Citing groups like the Institute for Historical Review, publications like The Spotlight, politicians like David Duke, and academicians like Leonard Jeffries, Lipstadt presents numerous examples of attempts to prove that the extermination of six million Jews is a hoax; that only a few thousand Jews died in the camps from disease; that the Allied bombings of German cities were worse than any Nazi offense; and that the ``true victims'' of WW II were the German people. These distortions of recorded history, argues the author, threaten to undermine our Western rationalist tradition and to legitimize the politicization of history. To Lipstadt, the common thread among Holocaust deniers is a ``purely anti-Semitic diatribe'' portraying Jews as victimizers. Self-declared scholars like Arthur R. Butz (whose credentials are in electronics) claim that Jews used the world's sympathy after the war to ``displace'' another people, establish the nation of Israel, and ``steal'' billions in reparations from their German and Western ``cash cows.'' Lipstadt argues vehemently against giving revisionists a forum in the name of free speech or freedom of the press, and she details the efforts of California revisionist Bradley Smith, who pushed a ``Holocaust was a hoax'' campaign in college newspapers throughout the US. Lipstadt contends that ``the responses to Holocaust denial by both students and faculty graphically demonstrate the susceptibility of an educated and privileged segment to the kind of reasoning that creates a hospitable climate for the rewriting of history.'' An important, well-documented study that deserves attention. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not only continued to gain adherents but has become an internationally organized movement.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Plume (July 1, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0452272742
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452272743
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category: (What's this?)

    #82 in  Books > History > Europe > Germany > Holocaust

Inside This Book (learn more)



Books on Related Topics (learn more)
 
 

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?


Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below.

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

 

Customer Reviews

41 Reviews
5 star:
 (20)
4 star:
 (8)
3 star:
 (2)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:
 (10)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.7 out of 5 stars (41 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, but ignores growing assault in Arabic media, June 10, 2001
By A Customer
This is a good book on a subject whose importance is clear and evident. Professor Lipstadt targets the deniers and presents superb arguments that they are motivated by hate and bigotry. The author, a confident character, faced the trial against her courageously and won.

Lipstadt's outlook, however, is Euro-centered: She only studied holocaust denial in Europe and North America. Characters like Irving and Garaudy are very popular in the Arab world, especially in Egypt. Moreover, Prof Lipstadt ignored Arab individuals who deny the holocaust in the Arabic media. These individuals are considered intellectuals in Arab society, and their message of hate is very popular, primarily because almost all writing about the Holocaust by scholars like Elie WIesel, Walter Laqueur, and Martin Gilbert, is censored, and certainly never ever translated into Arabic. In fact, after the Irving trial, Al Ahram, the most prestigious daily in Egypt and the Arab world, published an interview with David Irving. The interviewers presented David Irving as a victim attacked by sharks, with Professor Lipstadt, whose picture was shown, as one of the sharks. Al Jazeera television network regularly hosts Arab and other holocaust deniers.

Though she is confident, Professor Lipstadt does not seem to be aware that she is being abused in prestigious papers such as Al Ahram and AlJazeera television station. She needs to realize that this is a grave matter, and she cannot afford to be so Euro-centered. She should add a chapter on Arab Holocaust deniers and republish the book. Not only that, she should arrange to have her book translated into Arabic, so that the 300 Million Arabs get a chance to read the truth.

Her study of Arab journalists and scholars should also include another phenomenon related to the Holocaust that is almost exclusively Arab: Applauding the Final Solution. Al Akhbar's Ahmed Ragab, probably the most popular columnist in Egypt, very recently thanked Adofph Hitler for embarking on the final solution and killing nearly six million Jews, but chastised him for not doing a complete job. Applauding the Final Solution coexists very comfortably with denying the Holocaust in Arab milieus, as absurd as this may sound.

Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, but important, March 5, 2001
By A Customer
Deborah Lipstadt clearly has a high opinion of her own cleverness and the "I'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong" attitude she adopts, particularly at the start of the book, is irritating. To compound this, the editing is woefully sloppy, resulting in, among other things, far more misprints than should be the case in works at this level.

These are serious flaws, but once the reader gets past them, the naivety, wilful blindness and downright cruelty of those who would rehabilitate the Nazis are shown in frightening relief and detail. Books like this should keep us all on our guard. Thank goodness she won that British libel case. Recommended, but with reservations.
Comment Comments (2) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting On Many Levels, August 8, 2008
By The Orange Duke "orangeduke" (Cupertino, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
This is the book that set off the famous libel suit by infamous neo Nazi David Irving which became the subject of a couple of other books. It also purports to be the first examination of holocaust denial and its tactics. As such it is quite interesting. I fond the section on the attempt to place adds in college newspapers particularly interesting. Lipstadt's argument, that holocaust denial should not be given any academic respectability seems at first glance to undermine the idea of keeping from history from being politicized by enforcing an orthodoxy saying the holocaust happened. But of course the truth is the holocaust did happen, and no one would lend credence to a `historian' that claimed that the Second World War never happened. Facts are facts. Worse, the deniers do have an avowed political purpose, and one that advocates the very thing they deny. There are, indeed, some thoughts that are beyond the pale and should not be tolerated in a civil society, lest we lose sight of objective reality and begin to believe that up is down.

The history and phases of the denial movement is fascinating and various players are all well drawn and the book is a rich source of information about the deniers. Highly recommended.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a good start to learn about Holocaust Revisionism--STRANGE but TRUE...BUT:
What you will NOT learn from this book...

There was no budget.
There was no plan.
There was no extermination order from Hitler. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Michael Santomauro

1.0 out of 5 stars Just emotion, little if any facts. Hyperbole.
This book is far from a historical book; it is pure emotion. One has to understand that to many Jews, and especially organized Jewry, the Holocaust has become something like a... Read more
Published 12 months ago by E. Baumgartner

5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling
The Nazis murdered approximately 6 million Jews. There is an enormous amount of documentary and testimonial evidence for this genocide, the Holocaust. Read more
Published on April 5, 2007 by TiZ

3.0 out of 5 stars A detailed, but biased read
Lipstadt definitely covers the Holocaust Revisionist movement thoroughly, but one can't help but notice that she, herself, is just as political in her motives as are the... Read more
Published on February 23, 2007 by TriciaK85

4.0 out of 5 stars So, Where Is the Conspiracy Actually?
Those who deny or attempt to "revise" the history of the holocaust like us to believe that there is a vast conspiracy. Read more
Published on February 20, 2007 by Kevin Currie-Knight

1.0 out of 5 stars Holocaust Liar's Handbook
For those of you who have sincerely been seeking the truth about the Holocaust, who have done your homework and read a variety of sources and opinions, this book may well... Read more
Published on January 11, 2007 by Jim McPherson

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard to do fully
This is an excellent book in explaining how people can continue to support a concept that is as fully discredited as anything in history. Read more
Published on March 30, 2006 by The Professor Dave

1.0 out of 5 stars She Called John Sack An Anti-Semite and A Neo-Nazi
To give you an idea of where Lipstadt is coming from, I need only recount what she called John Sack on Charlie Rose (see title of this review). Read more
Published on February 5, 2006 by seekerotruth

5.0 out of 5 stars Denying the Holocaust : The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
This book strengthens the fact that the holocaust is overrated. Even though there is now doubt that the holocaust existed, this book presents facts that it might have been a... Read more
Published on January 31, 2006 by John Markesen

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly Done

This book is as others have stated an emotional plea rather than an academic work. Yes, I believe the Holocaust was a reality but this work only leads me into denial owing... Read more
Published on December 30, 2005 by Angus Minton

Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


   


Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)



Look for Similar Items by Category


A Savings Shower

Home Improvement Value Center
Find the right showerhead at the right price in the Home Improvement Value Center, where you can find items up to 50% off.

Shop the Value Center

 

Big Savings in Books

Bargain Books
Find great titles at fantastic prices in our Bargain Books Store.
 

Buy Three Books, Get a Fourth Free

4-for-3 Books
Order any four eligible books under $10 and get the lowest-price book free in our 4-for-3 Books Store. See more details.
 

Best Books

Best of the Month
See our editors' picks and more of the best new books on our Best of the Month page.
 

 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Where's My Stuff?

Shipping & Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.

Continue shopping: Top Sellers
Paranoia
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Darkfever
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Conditions of Use | Privacy Notice © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates