Critique and counter-critique is one of the hallmarks of a scholarly attitude, so it goes without saying that revisionists are taking their opponents’ arguments and responses seriously. Hence, this section addresses the theses of several orthodox scholars on the Holocaust which have evoked revisionist responses. Although most orthodox scholars insist that revisionist arguments are not even worth looking at, a number of them have in fact breached the taboo and have not only looked at revisionist arguments, but have actually deigned to criticize them in one way or other. The revisionist responses and rebuttals can be found here as well.
By Paul Grubach ∙ December 1, 1992
In early 1988, American execution hardware expert Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., carried out the first-ever forensic investigation of the alleged extermination gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek. His sensational conclusion – that these structures were never used as gas chambers to kill people – set off an international controversy that is still continuing. In…
By Carlos Whitlock Porter ∙ January 1, 1990
There are documents, and then there are documents. Some documents are better than others. Original documents, for example, are more valuable than documents that are not original, particularly when you want to prove murder. Original documents are even more important when you want to prove mass murder. This is pretty complicated stuff, our holocaust historians…
By Charles E. Weber ∙ January 1, 1994
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…
By Charles E. Weber ∙ January 1, 1994
Hitler's Apologists: The Anti-Semitic Propaganda of Holocaust 'Revisionism'. An Anti-Defamation League Publication. Available from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, 1993. $8.00 plus $2.50 postage. 8 +88 pages. Preparation of the publication is credited to Marc Caplan and a number of research and editorial contributors. As a…
By John Anderson ∙ January 1, 1994
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…
By Paul Grubach ∙ January 10, 1993
Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust, by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, New York, Columbia University Press, 1992, 205 pp., $27.50. Regarding the alleged mass murder of European Jewry during WWII, two schools of thought have emerged. “Exterminationists” believe the German government carried out a policy of systematic extermination, referred to as the “Final…
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