1975 Holocaust denial book
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering professor and Holocaust denier Arthur Butz . The book was originally published in 1975[1] in the United Kingdom by Anthony Hancock ’s Historical Review Press,[2] known as a Holocaust denial publisher. An antisemitic work,[3] [4] [5] it has been influential in the Holocaust denial movement.[6] Canadian academic Alan T. Davies has described it as an "antisemitic classic".[7]
Butz argues that Nazi Germany did not exterminate millions of Jews using homicidal gas chambers during World War II but that the Holocaust was a propaganda hoax.[8]
The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised.[9] In 2017, the online book seller Amazon.com removed the book, along with other Holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites.[10] [11]
Notes
^ Michael Freeden; Lyman Tower Sargent; Marc Stears (15 August 2013). The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies . Oxford University Press. pp. 737–. ISBN 978-0-19-166371-0 .
^ Rouben Paul Adalian; Steven L. Jacobs; Eric Markusen; Marc I. Sherman (March 2003). Encyclopedia of Genocide . ABC-CLIO. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-1-57607-446-6 .
^ Schweitzer, F; Perry, M (2002). Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN 978-0312165611 . Retrieved 17 August 2016 .
^ Mason, Carol (2009). Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy . Cornell University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0 . Retrieved 17 August 2016 .
^ Dawidowicz, Lucy (1983). The Holocaust and the Historians . Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0674405677 . Retrieved 17 August 2016 .
^ Charny, Israel A. (1999). Encyclopedia of Genocide . Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO . pp. 181–182.
^ Alan Davies (1992). Davies, Alan (ed.). Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation . Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 242. ISBN 9780889202160 . Retrieved 17 August 2016 .
^ Geri Yonover (2000). "Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the academy: a tort remedy" . In DeCoste, F. C.; Schwartz, Bernard (eds.). The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law, and Education . University of Alberta Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0888643377 . Retrieved 7 October 2017 .
^ Green, Jonathan (2005). Encyclopedia of Censorship . Facts on File. p. 234. ISBN 978-0816044641 . Retrieved 17 August 2016 .
^ "Amazon UK Removes 3 Holocaust Denial Books from Sale" . Times of Israel . March 9, 2017.
^ Ziv, Stav (6 June 2017). "Under pressure, Amazon stops selling Holocaust-denial books" . The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 17 June 2017 .
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