Denying the Holocaust - The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.br>br>The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the Earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. For years those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe. But they have now begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas.br>br>In this famous book, reissued now to coincide with the film based on the legal case it provoked, Denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how--despite tens of thousands of witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence--this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with ''independent'' research centres, and official publications that promote a ''revisionist'' view of recent history. Denying the Holocaust argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but has an unsuspected power to dramatically alter the way that truth and meaning are transmitted from one generation to another.>

Relazione

Strong medicine... An antidote to the moral and intellectual virus that has spread from the crackpot fringe to the very heart of public discourse in the media, the courts and the world's universities. Los Angeles Times

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Deborah Lipstadt, Deborah E. Lipstadt
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.12.2016
• EAN: 9780141985510
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198551-0
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 199 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater