Denial
TitleDenial
Author
Call number940.5318/0385
Object number06034aj
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherOxford University Press
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp560-574
MaterialArticle
Series titleOxford handbooks
ISBN9780199211869
NotesArticle from the book ' The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies' pp560-574
Description
Holocaust denial is defined by the claim that the Jews invented the story of the Holocaust to win sympathy from the world, money from Germany and land in the Middle East. Deniers contend that the Nazis sought to uproot the Jews not kill them, that the gas chamber did not exist, and that the no. killed was substantially less than 6million. In a celebrated case involving Lipstadt and David Irving, the British judge ruled that denial is based on a 'distortion and manipulation of historical facts'