Denying The Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory

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The powerful & deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case now dramatized in the film Denial 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 For years those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe But they have now begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas In this famous book reissued now to coincide with the film based on the legal case it provoked Denial Deborah Lipstadt shows how--despite tens of thousands of witnesses & vast amounts of documentary evidence--this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement with 'independent' research centres & official publications that promote a 'revisionist' view of recent history Denying the Holocaust argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but has an unsuspected power to dramatically alter the way that truth & meaning are transmitted from one generation to another