Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00247)

In light of some recent postings to Theos-Talk, readers 
on this forum might like to consult the following material:

Holocaust revisionism
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_revisionism

Holocaust denial
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial

David Irving
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving

Holocaust Denial
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/denialtoc.html

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory 
by Deborah Lipstadt [BOOK]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452272742/
"In this first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows 
how, despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts 
of documentary evidence, this irrational idea has not only continued 
to gain adherents but has become an internationally organized 
movement."

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do 
They Say It? 
by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman, and Arthur Hertzberg [BOOK
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520216121
"History professor Shermer and Holocaust scholar Grobman analyze the 
attitudes and arguments of Holocaust deniers, who assert that there 
were 'no gas chambers, no six million murdered, no master plan.' 
After a clarifying discussion about free-speech issues, the 
distinctions between history and pseudohistory, and the dangers 
inherent in allowing ideologically biased revisionist history to 
stand unchallenged, Shermer and Grobman profile the most influential 
of the deniers, including Mark Weber, director of the anti-Semitic 
Institute for Historical Review, and David Irving, who has sued 
Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), for libel. 
The authors then refute the flimsy theories of Holocaust denial with 
explicit and chilling evidence and expose the 'psychology of 
extremism' and hate underlying denial rhetoric. Certainly denial of 
the Holocaust is an outrage to Jews, but Shermer and Grobman make the 
point that it is not just a Jewish matter. Any attempt to erase the 
truth about the Holocaust is an assault on our understanding of the 
past, the source of nothing less than our sense of meaning and 
purpose."

Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial 
by Richard J. Evans [BOOK]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465021522
"As an expert witness for the defense in last year's Irving-Lipstadt 
trial, Evans (history, Cambridge Univ.) was charged with determining 
whether David Irving was, as Deborah Lipstadt asserted, a Holocaust 
denier. Evans spent two years researching Irving's work, tracing his 
sources, and then evaluating his publications and public speeches. 
Moving easily from analysis of Irving's abuse of primary documents to 
a discussion of what constitutes legitimate historical methodology, 
Evans presents compelling proof that Irving is a Holocaust denier and 
why he should not be considered a legitimate member of the historical 
profession. Evans's depiction of the trial and of Irving's behavior 
in court is followed by an assessment of the implications of the 
judgment in Lipstadt's favor. Evans's point that some commentators 
seemed to forget that it was Irving who was attempting to silence 
Lipstadt, rather than academic historians and 'Jewish interest 
groups' attempting to stifle free speech, is well worth remembering. 
Evans eloquently argues that what was really on trial was history 
itself. Fortunately, history won. Ironically, Evans's carefully 
documented book has not yet been published in the U.K., as Irving's 
threats to bring a libel suit have already caused one company to drop 
publication."

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm

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