Holocaust, American Response To
The American response to the Holocaust is characterized by a series of fluctuating policies. One must first examine the attitude of Americans towards the persecution of...
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In the following essay, Eatwell analyzes propaganda techniques used in Holocaust denial literature
The Holocaust of Jews during the Second World War is part of modern collective memory. Images of t...
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Rubenstein is an American historian and educator. In the following essay, he discusses his correspondence with Noam Chomsky regarding the latter's defense of Robert Faurisson.
The strange ne...
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Lipstadt is an American historian and educator whose writings focus on modern Jewish history. In the following essay, she traces the evolution of American Holocaust revisionism.
The roots of Americ...
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In the following essay, Lipstadt investigates the controversy over the appearance of a Holocaust denial advertisement in various college newspapers in the United States.
In the early 1990s American...
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In the following essay, Katz addresses the major questions that have been raised over the acquisition and dissemination of Holocaust denial literature in Canadian libraries.
In her very provocative...
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In the following essay, Barnouw answers Holocaust revisionists who deny the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary.
The earliest attacks on the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary we could...
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In the following essay, the critics address the contention of Swedish revisionist Ditlieb Felderer that Anne Frank's diary is a falsified document.
To assert that Anne Frank constitutes the ...
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Connell is an English journalist. In the following essay, Connelland Terry report on a trial that took place in Hamburg, Germany, to determine the validity of allegations that Anne Frank's diar...
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In the following essay, Lipstadt reviews the controversy concerning the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary.
Anne Frank's diary has become one of the deniers' most popular targe...
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Broszat was a German historian and a respected authority on the Holocaust. Director of the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History for seventeen years, he argued that the Nazi plan to extermin...
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In the following essay, Siano focuses on the writings of David Irving and Willis Carto, two major figures in the Holocaust denial movement.
There's a scene in the Mel Brooks movie The Produc...
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Alan Bullock
In May 1983, the Calgary Sun, a sensationalist tabloid, ran the headline "'Holocaust a lie,'" in inch-high letters, across a full-page article on Jim Keegstra...
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In the following essay, originally published in French in 1985, Vidal-Naquet provides an analysis of the phenomenon of anti-Semitic historical revisionism.
I shall call "revisionism" ...
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An American educator and historian, Dawidowicz wrote and edited several studies of the Holocaust. In the following essay, she refutes the arguments of Holocaust denial writers.
Historians are alway...
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Sereny is an Austrian-born journalist and fiction writer whose works include Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1974) and The True Story of the Hitler Diaries. In the following ess...
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In the following essay, Vidal-Naquet impugns the motives of Robert Faurisson and Noam Chomsky in defending the authors of Holocaust denial literature.
Pursuing his crusade—whose theme may be...
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In the following essay, Weinberg studies the writings of French Holocaust deniers.
The pseudo-historians who have engaged in activities to exculpate the Nazis of their horrendous crimes, who have a...
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An American linguist, Chomsky is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In addition to his seminal studies in the nature and function of human language, he has also published ...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in French in 1980, Fresco offers an analysis of the Holocaust denial writings of Robert Faurisson.
Had he been able to attend the meeting of t...
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A right-wing Austrian writer who fled to Spain after being convicted on Holocaust denial charges 15 years ago must serve his 18-month sentence, Vienna's highest court said Monday.Gerd Honsik, 67, m...
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Israel's prime minister asked Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday to urge Christians to protest Holocaust denials, Israeli government officials said.During their meeting at the Vatican, Benedict told Pr...
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The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday condemning the denial of the Holocaust, with only Iran rejecting it as an attempt by the United States and Israel to exploit the atrocity for t...
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The United States has drafted a U.N. resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust, a spokesman said Monday, a month after Iran provoked widespread anger by holding a conference casting doubt o...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he found it "unbelievable" and "shocking" that Iran hosted a conference examining whether the Holocaust took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister has cond...
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Tehran (dpa) - The Iranian opposition on Friday labelled President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust (the systematic
extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany) "poli...
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Brussels (dpa) - Planned new rules to criminalize racism and
xenophobia in the European Union will not force member states to
change standards on freedom of expression, EU d...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre
launched an Arabic-language website Thursday, in what a spokeswoman
said was an attempt to combat growing Hol...
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Israel's Holocaust memorial has launched a version of its Web site in Farsi to educate the country's most bitter enemy _ Iran _ about the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews.Iran has faced widespread c...
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A German court on Thursday convicted far-right activist Ernst Zundel and sentenced him to five years in prison for Holocaust denial in a case that underlined Germany's determination to prosecute pe...
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