Review: Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust (1994)

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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I came at this book backwards, because I've previously read a couple of books about the Irving libel trial, where David Irving tried to sue Deborah Lipdstadt for accurately calling him a Holocaust denier. Bascially, that's what this book is: Lipstadt accurately calling people Holocaust deniers and laying out their methodologies and pet fallacies and so on. It is, of course, almost 30 years out of date, so more a primary text about the history of Holocaust denial in the 1980s than anything else. But it was still engaging and interesting (and infuriating) and I'm sure that though the players have changed, the script is still relevant.



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