The Giant With Feet of Clay : Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the Holocaust (Holocaust Handbooks Series, 3) (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Whoever undertook to read Hilberg's standard work without further knowledge of the problems in the study of the 'Holocaust' would never suspect that the version..." (more)
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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. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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• 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
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,410,120 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Michael Santomauro "What sort of Truth is it ... (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

10 of 14 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 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'.

32 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title is apt; the critique, devastating, March 9, 2004

By A Customer

I have read this book carefully several times, as well as other works by this author (Graf) and his target (Hilberg). Graf's critique is enlightening and devastating: Raul Hilberg set out to write a history of HOW the Nazis killed people in gas chambers without stopping to think about WHETHER they did it. Hilberg is on solid ground for most of his work - the persecution and deportation of European Jewry - but fails at the crucial point, the gas chambers. He has no reliable witnesses to mass gassing, no documents, no evidence. He has never done research in the camps themselves, never examined the remains of the "gas chambers", never allowed himself to doubt their existence. He relies instead on hearsay, speculation, and a parade of transparently bogus "witnesses" like Philip Mueller and Kurt Gerstein. Graf is able to refute every one of Hilberg's "witnesses". I have taken the time to read many of their "eyewitness" accounts myself (including those cited by the first reviewer above), and they are as Graf says, totally unreliable when not demonstrably false. Interestingly, Hilberg's autobiography does not even MENTION Graf's work. He has never rebutted the critiques Graf raises! The Giant (Hilberg) does indeed stand on feet of clay (phony evidence).
I will briefly point out that Graf's tone is, in my opinion, needlessly personal and polemical at times. However, the book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the Holocaust controversy.