The Holocaust:
Denial & History

Deborah Lipstadt

The Nazi Holocaust claimed the lives of between 5 and 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945. Since then, a small group of Holocaust deniers have lied about and minimized this history by deliberately manipulating historical evidence as part of an ideological and racist agenda.

Learning Tools:
Myths & Facts

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Holocaust deniers freely distort the historical record in order to justify anti-Semitism, racism and fascism. These tools help the novice and expert alike analyze denier claims and refute them with historical evidence including primary-source documents and both Nazi and survivor testimony.

Irving v. Lipstadt:
Denial on Trial

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In 1996 British Holocaust denier David Irving sued professor Deborah Lipstadt for alleged libel. Three courts found for Lipstadt concluding that Irving was a Holocaust denier, an anti-Semite and a racist. The unedited trial documents found below document this important victory for truth and history.

Continuing Effort: News & Updates

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Holocaust denial suffered a sharp blow as a result of the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, however deniers and so-called "revisionists" continue to publicize their ideologically skewed version of history. We provide up-to-date news, links and resources on denial and its continued impact on culture.

Holocaust Denial in the News

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Baseless Accusations against John Travolta Demonstrate Cruelty ...
Natural News.com, AZ - Jan 4, 2009
Just ask David Irving, who actually spent time in prison for questioning the official explanation of the Holocaust (http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&o. ...

Candy-coating the Holocaust
American Thinker, WA - Jan 3, 2009
A number of scholars, in particular Ken Waltzer and Deborah Lipstadt, were quick to point out the inconsistencies. Neither Rosenblatt's agent, his publisher ...

Commentary: Holocaust love story an insult to the survivors
CNN International - Dec 31, 2008
Read her blog here Deborah Lipstadt says the Holocaust love story seemed incredible on its face. (CNN) -- I don't know whether to be sad or angry -- or both ...
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In Development! Arabic Myth/Fact Sheets

HDOT is proud to offer our readers a sneak peak at Arabic language translations of our Myth/Fact sheets. While we are still translating and posting new sheets, these crucial documents will provide solid historical evidence to counter the Holocaust denial that is rampant in the Arabic-speaking world.

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Deborah's blog: lipstadt.blogspot.com

Apples Over the Fence: I've Had My Say and I am Done, Jan 3, 2009 - Deborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.com

I have decided that, barring any new major developments , I will not adding any additional posts about this saga. My previous posts and my opeds [here and here] express all I have to say.

York Publishers sounds like a vanity press. It's possible publication of a book based on a fictionalized movie -- that may itself not be made -- will probably gain no traction.

The lesson of this saga comes to us in the words of John Adams and Emmanuel Ringelblum, both of whom I have quoted previously.

These two men, though separated by continents and centuries, cautioned against the need to embellish the truth in any way. Both were referring to seminal events in history, one glorious and one horrible.

Regarding the depiction of America's moment of creation, Adams wrote:
Truth, nature, fact should be your sole guide. Let not our posterity be deluded by fictions under the pretence of poetical or graphical license.”
Regarding the horrible destruction being faced by Jews during the Holocaust, Ringelblum wrote:
We wanted the simplest most unadorned account possible of what happened in each shtetl and what happened to each Jew [and in this war each Jew is like a world in itself. Any superfluous word, any literary exaggeration grated and repelled.... It is unnecessary to add an extra sentence.
Or, as one anonymous Jew wrote in the margin of a questionnaire Ringelblum's group distributed in the Warsaw ghetto in order to document conditions:
FACTS!**
That's the takeaway from this whole matter.

And now.... Enough.


* I am not, of course, referring to the serious historical work on Buchenwald and its sub-camps being conducted by various historians.

** Kassow, Sam, Who Will Write Our History?