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A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy.

Such notions used to be the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the "true victims" of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe.

But now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how—despite living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence—this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, “independent” research centers, and official publications that promote a “revisionist” view of recent history. Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge.

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“Important and impassioned... A comprehensive account of Holocaust denial, particularly from an American perspective and particularly for the reader with little prior knowledge of the subject. It rigorously traces the movement's roots and development both in this country and abroad, describes the ways the deniers have managed to focus attention on their arguments in both educational institutions and the news media, and explores the susceptibility of Americans, as well as others, to their arguments.”—Walter Reich, New York Times

“Lipstadt, who has been sued for libel by Holocaust denier David Irving, was the first to call attention to the rapidly expanding movement to deny that the Holocaust ever took place. In this groundbreaking analysis, she profiles the deniers and explains their viewpoints and exposes the rabid anti-Semitism at the heart of Holocaust denial and the very serious threat it poses.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist

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Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She is the author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (a National Jewish Book Award winner); Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. She lives in Atlanta.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; Reprint edition (July 1, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780452272743
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0452272743
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Some worthwhile information but tendentious and unscholarly

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I first became acquainted with this topic a couple of years ago when I came across an old Donahue episode on YouTube. One of the guests was a young Jewish guy named David Cole (not featured in this book). He made some interesting points that no one really responded to. Donahue for example simply dismissed him sarcastically, "You're a real Columbo, David." The opponent they got to appear didn't really seem very informed on the topic, and I found it odd that they couldn't get a specialist to come on and provide a proper response.

My next encounter with the topic was seeing the Denial movie about the Lipstadt-Irving trial. After seeing that I came to understand that Lipstadt has a firm policy (apparently shared by most other Holocaust specialists) of not debating the Holocaust. The idea is that if you debate the position, you give the other side respect and credibility they don't deserve. But apparently she felt like the revisionists/deniers were getting enough attention that she couldn't ignore them any more. Hence we have this volume, a sort of indirect response.

We're told early on the book will not be a "point-by-point" rebuttal and this is a understatement. The book is an annotated bibliography of sorts. She goes through pretty much in chronological order, beginning with WWI revisionism and pro-German apologetics as well as isolationist movements. These she says are the seeds Holocaust denial. She then moves on to Rassinier, App, Arthur Butz, Institute for Historical Review, Zundel, Irving, and others. (As I read through, I usually searched for more info on the names mentioned). Again, for the most part she does not focus on rebuttals. Rather, her primary technique is to describe her targets with disgust and question their motives and overall credibility. Throughout she uses very loaded language which I thought detracted from her book. "Neo-Nazi," "discredited," "fallacious," several of these kinds of words on every page. She only rarely ventures beyond this sort of ad hominem. For example, there's the guy Leuchter who took samples from the walls at Auschwitz and had them chemically tested for cyanide. Lipstadt goes on for pages and pages about his credentials but only spends maybe a paragraph on the key question: is there or isn't there cyanide residue in the walls of the gas chambers and how much?

This would have been a more interesting book if she had been a least shown a little nuance in considering people's motivations rather than just calling everyone a Nazi. For example, Rassinier was a French leftist who himself was a political prisoner in several of the German camps. Whatever his motivations, he does not sound like a textbook Nazi to me.

She also neglects epistemology entirely. She just says "it" is self-evident and is not up for debate. That obviously isn't true of history in general, and she doesn't explain why the Holocaust is uniquely beyond historical critique; that is to say, she doesn't say how we determine the precise boundaries of "it" and whether "it" can be redefined on the margins and by what process. Her implicit argument seems to be a practical one: that the people that do it are politically motivated and do not act in good faith. She may well be substantially correct, yet I still find her take lacking and philosophically unsatisfying.

Lipstadt at several points claims to support free speech but she is frankly unconvincing in this. People have been jailed for this stuff in many countries. The US does not yet have these kinds laws, but there is considerable private censorship, including on this very website which has banned many dozens of Holocaust books.

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Good, slightly out-of-date overview

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Lipstadt's book is a good overview of Holocaust denial twenty-odd years ago. She does a thorough job showing us who the deniers were and are, as well as what their arguments are. She shows us the history of those who claim the Holocaust has been greatly exaggerated, from early pioneers like Harry Elmer Barnes and Austin App through their heirs today, such as Mark Weber and Bradley Smith. She shows that the premier Holocaust denier organization, the Institute for Historical Review, was founded by Willis Carto and David McCalden, tells us who they were and who they've associated with, and tells us about Carto's other Jew-hating projects, like the Liberty Lobby and the Noontide Press.
Lipstadt gives enough attention to the deniers' arguments that anyone who believes in or wants to refute that stuff would do well to read this book. She refutes some of the main arguments and shows the lack of qualifications and credibility of some of the characters involved in Holocaust denial, such as Fred Leuchter.
She has some interesting things to say about why people deny the Holocaust, such as the sheer unbelievability and horror of it. Worth quoting:
"Rationally one would like to assume that, since Leuchter has been exposed as a man without the qualificatons necessary to perform this analysis[of the gas chambers], and since his work has been demonstrated to be scientifically and methodologically fallacious, the destiny of the Leuchter Report would be the dustbin of history. But the Holocaust and, to only a slightly lesser degree, Holocaust denial itself remind us that the irrational has a fatal attraction even to people of goodwill. It can overwhelm masses of evidence and persuade people to regard the most outrageous and untenable notions as fact."p. 181.
I have a few minor quibble with Lipstadt. For example, she says that the University of London has no record of Richard Harwood as either a member of the staff or student body. In Harwood's tract, Did Six Million Really Die, it says he is "with the University of London," but it also clearly states that Richard Harwood is a pseudonym, so of course that university would have no record of him.

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The future of the holocaust.

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This is a carefully researched and well written study of what holocaust deniers and revisionists have been saying and writing since the late 1940s. Ms Lipstadt makes very clear their political agendas, sometimes hidden and sometimes not, such as anti-semitism and the political rehabilitation of nazism. Of course, a lot has happened since the book's publication in 1994: changes in the law on racial incitement and holocaust denial, the unsuccessful lawsuit of David Irving, amongst others, and the huge expansion of hate sites on the internet. Indeed, the internet is now (unlike in 1994) the main media outlet for those wishing to deny the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz or claiming that allied crimes were worse than nazi ones. The author suggests rightly that holocaust deniers will increasingly try to find a respectable and intellectual image for their claims. This the net allows them to do. It is perhaps desirable that a revised edition of this book appears soon to analyse more recent developments. Ms Lipstadt's account of the odd careers of many deniers, such as self-styled expert on gas chambers Fred Leuchter, is masterful. She really does know her enemies.

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Deborah Lipstadt-- Denying The Holocaust
54th book read in 2020
I purchased this book used as I saw a good review of it and when read it was close to Passover and normally during Jewish holidays I like to read a book on Jewish things.
This book was a good read and has a huge section on notes where the informsation came from This in an older book published in 1994.
Forty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the "true victims" of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe.

But over the past decade they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas, and now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how - despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence - this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, "independent" research centers, and official publications that promote a "revisionist" view of recent history.

One sign of the movement's disturbing resonance is the rise of such figures as the Holocaust denier David Duke to national prominence. Holocaust deniers have also begun to make common cause with radical Afrocentrists such as Leonard Jeffries of New York's City University, who retells racist myths about the Jews; and a recent campaign of ads in college newspapers calling for "open debate" on "so-called facts" about the Holocaust suggests a bold new bid for mainstream intellectual legitimacy.

I would give this book 4*

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Laura O'Reilly

Makes my head hurt

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Oh where to start - This book is a difficult read because it makes you so angry so angry that you want to scream at these people who deny something so horrible as the Holocaust... They say that their "side" should be heard and they should be able to debate their "views"
Okay but there is no "other" side - There is no debating the Holocaust - IT HAPPENED - There's too much documented information about it
You can debate the causes and effects of the Holocaust but you can't debate whether it happened or not
Its like saying you want to debate Slavery - Tons of documented information and artifacts so how can you say it never happened
What do these people think - 6 million people just got up and moved to Antarctica

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