The Holocaust Industry

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today.Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes from some of the very people who profess most passionately to defend it. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries and legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Finkelstein, Norman G Finkelstein, Norman G. Finkelstein
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.12.2014
• EAN: 9781781685617
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-561-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater