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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory Paperback – July 1, 1994
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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.
- Print length304 pages
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- Publication dateJuly 1, 1994
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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
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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.
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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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*
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










