Antisemitism: A Dark History and a Growing Threat: Holocaust Denial
The Holocaust "is one of the best documented events in history," and yet Holocaust denial was practiced while the Jews of Europe were being murdered in death camps during the second World War and has continued ever since.
The Nazis had an interest in denying they were attempting to exterminate European Jews. The Nazis actively attempted to destroy the evidence of the extermination camps in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, as well as several mass shooting sites across occupied Poland, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union.
Modern Holocaust denial has taken many forms. For a comprehensive list, please see the United States Holocaust Memorial's Key Dates in Holocaust Denial and the Antidefamation League's A Short History of Holocaust Denial in the United States.
Denying the Holocaust by Call Number: D 804.35 L57 1994Publication Date: 1994The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Such notions used to be the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease.
History on Trial: my day in court with a Holocaust denier by Call Number: KD 379.5 I78 L569 2006Publication Date: 2006Deborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle with controversial British World War II historian David Irving that culminated in a sensational 2000 trial in London.
