Citations:Holocaust denial

English citations of Holocaust denial

Denial of the targeted murder of 11–12 million people

• 1999 October 5, “Mike Curtis” (username), “A Fishing Story was Re: Reconstructionism and Holocaust Denial!!”, in {{{1}}}, Usenet:

  Born in Germany. Didn't have to stumble across it. What I did stumble across was holocaust denial which shocked me. The truth about the holocaust begins in 1933 end "ends" in 1945. Then moves on through to today historiographically. The truth involves 12 million innocents murdered by the Nazis in various programs for the same basic reasons. The Nazis saw them as genetically inferior.

• 2001, Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman, Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos, in Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition →ISBN, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber, page 97:

  First, Holocaust denial is a blanket term that refers to a wide range of beliefs. At one end of the spectrum are groups/individuals who argue that the entire Holocaust (the systematic extermination of millions of European Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Communists, etc.) is a lie, […] . Moving back from this extreme are groups that question the recieved history of the Holocaust.

• 2002 October 21, “Bruce Calvert” (username), “German Prosecutors Drop Holocaust Denial Investigation of Leni Riefenstahl”, in {{{1}}}, Usenet:

  Riefenstahl, best known for her Nazi-era propaganda films, was accused of Holocaust denial by a Gypsy organization after saying in a newspaper interview that none of the Gypsies taken from concentration camps to be used as extras in the wartime feature film, 'Lowlands,' died in the camps.

• 2005, Karen E. Till, The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place →ISBN, page 139:

  While Holocaust denial is not as strong after 2000 as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, there are people who argue that the Holocaust never happened and [...] reject the fact that National Socialists and German citizens, aided by others, collectively murdered millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other individuals.

• 2009, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World →ISBN, page 87 :

  Genocide denial […] challenges the historical fact that the Nazis systematically exterminated Jews and Travellers in Europe during the 1940s. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Holocaust denial was promulgated by a small number of Nazis and Nazi sympathisers. […] Travellers have specific place within the broader process of genocide denial for two reasons. First, antisemitic Holocaust denial usually denies other Nazi genocides like that of the Gypsies of African Germans alongside its denial of the Shoah or Jewish-specific dimensions of Nazi ideology and policy. (Holocaust deniers are unlikely to reject Nazi atrocities against Jews but accept them against Travellers.) […]

• 2011, Steven Carr Reuben, Becoming Jewish: The Challenges, Rewards, and Paths to Conversion, Rowman & Littlefield →ISBN, page 190:

  A WAVE OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL

  Modern times have brought us people that wish to erase the memory of the Holocaust and its eleven million victims by denying it ever happened.

Denial of the targeted murder of 6 million Jews

• "The Holocaust is commonly defined as the murder of more than 5,000,000 Jews by the Germans in World War II."

  —Donald L Niewyk, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000, p.45

• "Before discussing how Holocaust denial constitutes a conspiracy theory, and how the theory is distinctly American, it is important to understand what is meant by the term 'Holocaust denial'. Holocaust deniers, or 'revisionists', as they call themselves, question all three major points of definition of the Nazi Holocaust. First, they contend that, while mass murders of Jews did occur (although they dispute both the intentionality of such murders as well as the supposed deservedness of these killings), there was no official Nazi policy to murder Jews. Second, and perhaps most prominently, they contend that there were no homicidal gas chambers, particularly at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where mainstream historians believe over 1 million Jews were murdered, primarily in gas chambers. And third, Holocaust deniers contend that the death toll of European Jews during World War II was well below 6 million. Deniers float numbers anywhere between 300,000 and 1.5 million, as a general rule."

  —Mathis, Andrew E. Holocaust Denial, a Definition, The Holocaust History Project, July 2, 2004. (from Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia)

• "In part III we directly address the three major foundations upon which Holocaust denial rests, including... the claim that gas chambers and crematoria were used not for mass extermination but rather for delousing clothing and disposing of people who died of disease and overwork; ... the claim that the six million figure is an exaggeration by an order of magnitude—that about six hundred thousand, not six million, died at the hands of the Nazis; ... the claim that there was no intention on the part of the Nazis to exterminate European Jewry and that the Holocaust was nothing more than the unfortunate by-product of the vicissitudes of war."

  —Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman. Denying History: : who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and why Do They Say It?, University of California Press, 2000, →ISBN, p. 3.

• "Holocaust denial can be a particularly insidious form of antisemitism precisely because it often tries to disguise itself as something quite different: as genuine scholarly debate (in the pages, for example, of the innocuous-sounding Journal for Historical Review). Holocaust deniers often refer to themselves as ‘revisionists’, in an attempt to claim legitimacy for their activities. There are, of course, a great many scholars engaged in historical debates about the Holocaust whose work should not be confused with the output of the Holocaust deniers. Debate continues about such subjects as, for example, the extent and nature of ordinary Germans’ involvement in and knowledge of the policy of genocide, and the timing of orders given for the extermination of the Jews. However, the valid endeavour of historical revisionism, which involves the re-interpretation of historical knowledge in the light of newly emerging evidence, is a very different task from that of claiming that the essential facts of the Holocaust, and the evidence for those facts, are fabrications."

  —The nature of Holocaust denial: What is Holocaust denial?, JPR report No. 3, 2000.

• "Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include ... denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust)."

  —Working Definition of Antisemitism, European Fundamental Rights Agency

• "It would elevate their antisemitic ideology – which is what Holocaust denial is – to the level of responsible historiography – which it is not."

  —Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, →ISBN, p. 11.

• "The denial of the Holocaust is among the most insidious forms of anti-Semitism..."

  —Roth, Stephen J. "Denial of the Holocaust as an Issue of Law" in the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 23, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1993, →ISBN, p. 215.

• "Contemporary Holocaust deniers are not revisionists – not even neo-revisionists. They are Deniers. Their motivations stem from their neo-nazi political goals and their rampant antisemitism."

• —Austin, Ben S. "Deniers in Revisionists Clothing", The Holocaust\Shoah Page, Middle Tennessee State University.

• "Holocaust denial is a contemporary form of the classic anti-Semitic doctrine of the evil, manipulative and threatening world Jewish conspiracy."

  —Introduction: Denial as Anti-Semitism, "Holocaust Denial: An Online Guide to Exposing and Combating Anti-Semitic Propaganda", Anti-Defamation League, 2001.