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Auschwitz: myths and facts

Summary The Auschwitz extermination story originated as wartime propaganda. Now, more than 40 years after the end of the Second World War, it is time to take another, more objective look at this highly polemicized chapter of history. The Auschwitz legend is the core of the Holocaust story. If hundreds of thousands of Jews were…

Context and Perspective in the “Holocaust” Controversy

Deutsch | FrançaisPresented at the IHR's 1982 Revisionist Conference Introduction When in the discussion of some subject we criticize somebody because “he can't see the forest for the trees,” we refer to a special sort of intellectual failing. We do not mean that the object of our criticism is incompetent or that his views on…

Contexte historique et perspective d'ensemble dans la controverse sur l'”Holocauste”

Allemand | AnglaisIntervention faite dans le cadre de la conférence de l' Institute for Historical Review en 1982 Arthur R. Butz est professeur d'informatique à l'Université Northwestern, Evanston (Illinois). Il est le plus prestigieux des révisionnistes du monde entier. Il a publié en 1975 un ouvrage de référence : The Hoax of the 20th Century…

Creative Justice: Conviction Without Accusation

In war crimes trials, “conspiracy”, “design”, and “plan”, are used sometimes synonymously, and sometimes not. The doctrine of conspiracy was borrowed from American state and lower Federal Court decisions, particularly Marino vs. US, 91 Fed. 2d. 691, Circuit Court of Appeals. The rest of the world, of course, was not placed on notice to obey…

Days of Remembrance

The front cover also bears the inscriptions: “This book was produced with the assistance and cooperation of the International Center for Holocaust Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith./OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 (207-121-814/80028). 96 pages, 27.6 x 21 centimeters. 27 illustrations plus two maps. Although reviewers customarily…

Denying the Holocaust

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Deborah Lipstadt, New York: The Free Press, 1993. ix + 278 pages. During the past few years, a number of facts have come to light which have served to clarify the question of the “Holocaust” claims that have played an important role in shaping American…

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, by Deborah Lipstadt. New York: Free Press, 1993. Hardcover. 278 pages. Notes. Index. $22.95. ISBN: 0-02-919235-8. Deborah Lipstadt occupies the Dorot Chair in Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Denying the Holocaust has been put forth as a serious work…

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