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Date Posted: 12:07:33 02/07/02 Thu
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
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ANHOW rvw of books: Denying History:Who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it?

Denying History: Who Say the Holcaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?
Authors: Michael Shermer and Alex Gropman.
Published: 2000 by University of California Oress
Length: 312 pages, hardback
Genre: Non-fiction

The title of this book pretty much tells it all - it is an academic exploration into the people who deny the Holocaust ever happened and their motivations for making this claim.

Of course, you may be wondering why someone would make a claim like this, despite the film footage of newly-liberated camps, eyewitness testimony from both victims and perpetrators, the population records that show that, indeed, some 6 million Jews did not survive World War II and damning circumstantial evidence from Hitler and members of his inner circle that alludes to a "Final Solution" to the "Jewish problem".

Well, the dniers are a motley lot, some are educated and wel-spoken and others are not. Some feel that Germany has become a martyred nation to the cause of eradicating racism. Others are pro-fascist in politics and want to get rid of the taint that Nazi-ism gives to fascism, so they try to exonerate the Nazis.

Others are just plain anti-semites and sincerely believe the Jes somehow "cooked up" the population figures or even somehow managed to conspire to kill off 6 milion of their own people in order to create sympathy for the creation of a Jewish country, namely, modern-day Israel.

It was a fascinating book, a little deep at the beginning and the end with the different theories on how to approach history, but the middle was quite informative. I give this book a B+.

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Re: ANHOW rvw of books: Denying History - a real life brush with deniers. -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 12:24:37 02/07/02 Thu
- Re: Denying History - a real life brush with deniers. -- BAD, 12:35:59 02/09/02 Sat
  - Re: Denying History - a real life brush with deniers. -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 10:18:11 02/12/02 Tue
    - Re: Denying History - a real life brush with deniers. -- BAD, 07:12:32 02/13/02 Wed
      - Re: Denying History - a real life brush with deniers. -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 08:20:00 02/13/02 Wed
        There are also films... -- mvd, 10:52:36 02/13/02 Wed
        Re: There are also films... -- Mt. healthy mountaineer, 12:38:03 02/13/02 Wed