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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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