Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz : Debates About the Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust
Alfred Kokh;Pavel Polian;Alfred Kokh;Pavel Polian
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Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and po...
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Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz : Debates About the Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust
2012
Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically. This is due to the modernization of anti-Semitism in the West, where accusations of ritual murder have long been passé and claims that the Holocaust was a hoax are de riguer, and to the government sanctions of anti-Semitism in the East in countries such as Iran. The purely scholarly problem of determining the number of victims, like other aspects of demography related to the Holocaust, have suddenly become closely embroiled in geopolitics and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which is now a context that has been forced upon it. This book is imbued with these connections and interrelationships. Avraham, Wolfgang Benz, Sergio Della Pergola, Mark Kupovetsky, Dieter Pohl, Aron Shneer, and the editors contribute their voices to the topic.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Holocaust denialContent provider:
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Holocaust Denial : The Politics of Perfidy
Robert S. Wistrich;Robert S. Wistrich
Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global pan...
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Holocaust Denial : The Politics of Perfidy
2012
Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist Holocaust deniers in Eastern-Europe, the spread of denial to Australia, Canada, South-Africa and even to Japan. Leading scholarly experts also explore the close connection between Holocaust denial, global conspiracy theories, antisemitism and radical anti-Zionism– especially in Iran and the Arab world.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography - Holocaust denial literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial
Robert Jan Van Pelt;Robert Jan Van Pelt
From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case ag...
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The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial
2002
From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz . In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.
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Holocaust denial literature--Great Britain - Trials (Libel)--England--LondonContent provider:
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The Last Gasp : The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
Scott Christianson;Scott Christianson
The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle o...
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The Last Gasp : The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
2010
The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a'humane'method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, Christianson overturns this mythology for good. He exposes the sinister links between corporations looking for profit, the military, and the first uses of the gas chamber after World War I. He explores little-known connections between the gas chamber and the eugenics movement. Perhaps most controversially, he has unearthed new evidence about American and German collaboration in the production and lethal use of hydrogen cyanide and about Hitler's adoption of gas chamber technology developed in the United States. More than a book about the death penalty, this compelling history ultimately reveals much about America's values and power structures in the twentieth century.
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Capital punishment--United States--History--20th century - Gas chambers--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Personen
Wolfgang Benz;Brigitte Mihok;Wolfgang Benz;Brigitte Mihok
Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthält mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der ...
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Personen
2009
Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthält mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Theologen, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten, Vertreter des Wirtschaftslebens, die ihre Judenfeindschaft öffentlich gemacht haben und damit Antijudaismus oder Antisemitismus förderten. Ebenso werden prominente Opfer wie Alfred Dreyfus, Habib Elghanian, Walther Rathenau, Emil Julius Gumbel vorgestellt und Vorkämpfer der Aufklärung und Toleranz wie Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing oder Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, die in der Abwehr von Judenfeindschaft eine wichtige Rolle spielten. Das Spektrum des biographischen Kompendiums reicht von den ersten Repräsentanten antijüdischen Denkens bis hin zu Vertretern des zeitgenössischen Antisemitismus - von Papst Leo dem Großen, Martin Luther, Abraham a Sancta Clara, Richard Wagner, Theodor Fontane, Houston Stewart Chamberlain und Henry Ford bis zu David Irving, Horst Mahler, Richard Williamson, Mahathir bin Mohamad und Mahmud Ahmadinedschad.
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Antisemitism--History - AntisemitismContent provider:
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Networks of Nazi Persecution : Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
Gerald D. Feldman;Wolfgang Seibel;Gerald D. Feldman;Wolfgang Seibel
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been po...
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Networks of Nazi Persecution : Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust
2005; Vol. 00006
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of persecution, presented by prominent historians and social scientists.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Economic aspects - Bureaucracy--Germany--History--20th century - World War, 1939-1945--Europe - Jewish property--EuropeContent provider:
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The Holocaust Encyclopedia
Laqueur, Walter;Laqueur, Walter
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fi...
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The Holocaust Encyclopedia
2001
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fifty-five years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encyclopedia is the only comprehensive single-volume work of reference providing both a reflective overview of the subject and abundant detail concerning major events, policy decisions, cities, and individuals. Up-to-date and designed for easy access, the encyclopedia presents information on the major aspects of the Holocaust in essays by scholars from eleven countries who draw on a number of sources—including recently uncovered evidence from the former Soviet bloc—to provide in-depth studies on the political, social, religious, and moral issues of the Holocaust as well as short entries identifying events, sites, and individuals. The book also has more than 250 photographs, many of them rare, and 19 maps.The volume includes:• Raul Hilberg on concentration camps and Gypsies• Ruth Bondy, Israel Gutman, and Dina Porat on major ghettoes• Roger Greenspun on the Holocaust in cinema and television• Richard Breitman on American policy• Michael Berenbaum on theological and philosophical responses • Saul Friedländer on Nazi policy• Michael Hagemeister on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion• Michael R. Marrus on historiography• Christopher R. Browning on the Madagascar Plan• Robert S. Wistrich on Holocaust denial• James E. Young on Holocaust literature
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World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Encyclopedias - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany After Unification
Hermann Kurthen;Werner Bergmann;Rainer Erb;Hermann Kurthen;Werner Bergmann;...
Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening...
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Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany After Unification
1997
Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass communication, and history. They analyze the degree of antisemitism, xenophobia, remembrance, and Holocaust knowledge in German public opinion; the groups and organizations that propagate prejudice and hate; and the German, American, and Jewish perceptions of, and reactions to, these phenomena.
