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Holocaust denial

Here are entered works that discuss the diminution of the scale and significance of the Holocaust or the assertion that it did not occur. Works that make such assertions are entered under Holocaust denial literature.

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• Denialism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

• Holocaust denial -- Historiography

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Errors, inventions, etc.
• Holocaust revisionism
• Revisionism, Holocaust

• Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy (Jerusalem: Magnes Press; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), ed. by Robert S. Wistrich (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Holocaust Denial and Operation Reinhard: A Critique of the Falsehoods of Mattogno, Graf and Kues (2011), by Jonathan Harrison, Roberto Muhlenkamp, Jason Myers, Sergey Romanov, and Nicholas Terry (HTML and PDF with commentary at Holocaust Controversies)
• The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Reponses (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Institute for Global Jewish Affairs; Anti-Defamation League, c2009), by Manfred Gerstenfeld (PDF with commentary at jcpa.org)
• Holocaust Denial (New York: American Jewish Committee, c1993), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajc.org)
• Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust, by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, trans. by Jeffrey Mehlman (HTML at anti-rev.org)
• Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers (1995 edition), by Werner Cohn (HTML at wernercohn.com)
• David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected, by Eberhard Jäckel, trans. by H. David Kirk (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Judgment in the Case of David Irving vs. Penguin Books, Ltd. and Deborah Lipstadt, by Great Britain Royal Courts of Justice and Charles Gray (PDF at phdn.org)

• Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of "Truth" and "Memory" (second edition; Chicago: Theses and Dissertations Press, 2003), ed. by Germar Rudolf, trans. by Victor Diodon (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust, by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, trans. by Jeffrey Mehlman (HTML at anti-rev.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Epistemic Injustice of Genocide Denialism (New York and London: Routledge, c2024), by Melanie Altanian (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust (c2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Cover and maps: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 1: PDF at ushmm.org
  • Part 2: PDF at ushmm.org
• Feeling Alone, Again: The Growing Unease Among Germany's Jews (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2002), by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Yehuda Bauer (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The World Jewish Congress During the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, c2014), by Zohar Segev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex (Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 1979), by Dino A. Brugioni and Robert G. Poirier (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Search (Farmington, PA: Bruderhof Foundation, c2005), by Josef Ben-Eliezer (PDF in Australia)
• Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989), by Jean-Claude Pressac, trans. by Peter Moss (HTML with commentary at phdn.org)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)
• Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, ed. by Alex Grobman, Daniel Landes, and Sybil Milton (illustrated HTML at wiesenthal.com)
• Ayduth Lachayim, Witness to Life: Holocaust Survivors in the Cleveland Jewish Community: Presented at the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Israel, June 15-18, 1981 (Cleveland: Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee, Jewish Community Federation, 1981) (page images in multiple parts at Ohio State Library)
• No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1973), by Saul S. Friedman (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1972), by Frederick B. Chary (page images at Pitt)
• The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland: Note Addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and Other Documents (New York: Pub. for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affars by Roy, ca. 1942), by Poland Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Auschwitz Alphabet, by Jonathan Wallace (HTML at spectacle.org)
• Pius XII and the Holocaust: A Reader, by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.) (HTML at cin.org)

• The Holocaust Chronicle (online edition; originally published 2000), by Marilyn J. Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russel Lemmons, Robert Ashley Michael, Keith H. Pickus, and John K. Roth, contrib. by Abraham J. Edelheit (illustrated HTML at holocaustchronicle.org)

• Holocaust (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c1984), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• Holocaust Encyclopedia (electronic edition, 2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (illustrated HTML at ushmm.org)

• Jews in France During World War II (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c2001), by Ren´e Poznanski, trans. by Nathan Bracher (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Anne Frank's Tree: Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, c2015), by Eric Katz (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Inside the Gas Chambers: The Extermination of Mainstream Holocaust Historiography (second edition of a translation of Nuovi Studi Contro il Revisionismo; Uckfield, UK: Castle Hill Publishers, 2016), by Carlo Mattogno, trans. by Henry Gardner (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• The Future of the German-Jewish Past: Memory and the Question of Antisemitism (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2021), ed. by Gideon Reuveni and Diana Franklin (PDF at Purdue)
• Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy (Jerusalem: Magnes Press; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), ed. by Robert S. Wistrich (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry (New York and London: New York University Press, c1993), by Mosheh Y. Hertsel, trans. by Joel Lerner (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Libraries, c2014), by Sonja Boos (PDF and EPub at Cornell Open)
• The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Reponses (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Institute for Global Jewish Affairs; Anti-Defamation League, c2009), by Manfred Gerstenfeld (PDF with commentary at jcpa.org)
• Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Berel Lang (PDF at Brandeis)
• In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials (Detroit: Wayne State University Press in cooperation with the Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, c1991), ed. by Sybil Milton, illust. by Ira Nowinski (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (Evanston, UK: Northwestern University Press, c2017), by Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival: The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Michael Dorland
  • PDF at Brandeis
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Michael André Bernstein (HTML at UC Press)
• Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Robin Ruth Linden (PDF at Ohio State)

• Holocaust: An End to Innocence (electronic edition, c2003), by Seymour Rossel (HTML at rossel.net)

• Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Berel Lang (PDF at Brandeis)
• American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2006), by Kirsten Lise Fermaglich (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
• Thinking and Killing: Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, c2013), by Alon Segev
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, by Simon Wiesenthal Center (full serial archives)

• Shattered Crystals (revised electronic edition, 2009), by Mia Amalia Kanner and Eve Rosenzweig Kugler (multiple formats with commentary at shatteredcrystals.net)
• Holocaust Encyclopedia (electronic edition, 2007), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (illustrated HTML at ushmm.org)
• The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir (c1997), by Benjamin Jacobs (HTML at Nizkor)
• We Survived: The Stories of Fourteen of the Hidden and Hunted of Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), ed. by Eric H. Boehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir, by Florence Mayer Lieblich (illustrated HTML at remember.org)
• To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (electronic edition), by Ellen Land-Weber (illustrated HTML at Humboldt)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.