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Denying History Michael Shermer

Denying History von Michael Shermer

Denying History Michael Shermer


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Zusammenfassung

An in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened, this text explores the motivations behind such claims. Uncovering a complex social movement, the authors try to understand the Holocaust deniers, but also refute their points one by one.

Denying History Zusammenfassung

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Michael Shermer

Taking an in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened, this text explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust revisionists. They have conducted personal interviews with the deniers, read their literature, monitored their Web sites, attended their conferences, engaged them in debate, and even travelled around Europe to conduct research at the Nazi extermination camps. Uncovering a complex social movement, the authors go in deep not only to try and understand the motives of the Holocaust deniers, but also to refute their points one by one. In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event.

Denying History Bewertungen

Holocaust denial gets an inventively thorough treatment in this important book. Using the deniers' own words to tear down their arguments, Shermer and Grobman provide a clear method for determining the reality of past events and supply a powerful weapon for anyone who cares about learning from the credible historical record.-Publishers Weekly; A useful supplement to Deborah Lipstadt's excellent 'Denying the Holocaust.' The authors took the trouble to become personally acquainted with the chief Holocaust deniers, a task which Lipstadt, understandably, disdained; they have thus added considerably to psychological understanding of the strange and irritating phenomenon of Holocaust denial.-The Times Literary Supplement; A profusion of books on the Holocaust has tumbled from the presses recently, and Denying History deserves a prominent place in their midst, especially for its survey of the flaws, fallacies and failings in the deniers' arguments but also for the authors' discussion of related issues such as free speech.-The Financial Times; Whether you have never had an interest in the Holocaust, or have always been passionately interested in it, or are sick and tired of hearing about it, you won't be able to stop reading this great, gripping story.-Jared Diamond, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel

Über Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer is the founder and publisher of Skeptic magazine, Director of the Skeptics Society, Adjunct Professor of the History of Science at Occidental College, and host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech. He is also the host of a national TV show called Exploring the Unknown (Fox Network) and the author of Why People Believe Weird Things (1997), and How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science (1999). Alex Grobman is the founding editor in chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, as well as the editor of In Defense of the Survivors: The Letters and Documents of Oscar A. Mintzer, AJDC Legal Advisor, Germany, 1945-46 (1999) and coeditor, with Rabbi Daniel Landes and Sybil Milton, of Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust (1983).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg Introduction. Who Speaks For The Past? History and Pseudohistory PART I. FREE SPEECH AND HISTORY 1. Giving the Devil His Due The Free Speech Issue 2. The Noble Dream How We Know Anything in History Happened PART II. INSIDE THE DENIAL MOVEMENT 3. Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened? An Inside Look at the Personalities and Organizations 4. Why They Say the Holocaust Never Happened The Ideological Agenda 5. How Deniers Distort History Flaws, Fallacies, and Failings in the Deniersi Arguments PART III. ARGUMENTS AND REFUTATIONS 6. The Crooked Timber of Auschwitz How Concentration Camps Became Death Camps 7. For God's Sake--Terrible. The Scope and Scale of the Holocaust 8. The Evil of Banality The Protocols of National Socialism PART IV. TRUTH AND HISTORY 9. The Rape of History In Search of a True and Meaningful Past

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Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Michael Shermer
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University of California Press
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