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Holocaust-Denial Literature: a Bibliography City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research York College 1994 Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Bibliography John A. Drobnicki CUNY York College Carol R. Goldman Trina R. Knight Johanna V. Thomas How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/yc_pubs/23 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Holocaust-Denial Literature A Bibliography John A. Drobnicki, Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, and Johanna V. Thomas Holocaust-denial is a body of work that seeks to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not hap- pen. Although not all of the deniers, who prefer to call themselves “revisionists” in an attempt to gain scholarly legitimacy, make the same claims, they all share at least one point: that there was no systematic attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jewry. Those who deny the Holocaust believe that the Jews themselves, usually referred to as “Zionists,” fabricated the “Big Lie” in order to gain sympathy for a homeland and to extort money, in the form of repara- tions payments, from Germany. The Nazis themselves can be thought of as the first Holocaust revisionists, for they tried to conceal their extermination program behind euphemisms such as “special treatment” and “final solution to the Jewish problem.” Present-day revisionists all share deep-seated anti- Semitic feelings, a hatred of Israel, and a need to rehabilitate and glorify Germany, fascism, and the Third Reich. This bibliography includes both works abot/f Holocaust revisionism and works of Holocaust revisionism. Although those who deny the Holocaust write in many languages and in many countries, the scope of this project has been limited to works in English, except in the case of Robert Faurisson, because of his notoriety, and a French journal. While this bibliography has been divided into many subject areas, it is acknowledged that many of the entries cross sev- eral categories, especially the works in the “general overview” section. This bibliography grew out of the authors’ Master of Library Science research project at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, a study of Holocaust- denial literature in public libraries, under the direction of Dr. Marianne Cooper. GENERAL OVERVIEW ---------- . Holocaust “Revisionism": Reinventing the Big Lie. ADL Research Report. New York: Anti-Defama- Aronsfeld, C. C. “Denials of the Holocaust: After the tion League of B’nai B’rith, 1989. Murders— The Lies.” Jewish Frontier46 (April 1979): Braham, Randolph L. “Historical Revisionism and the 24-27. New Right.” In Remembering for the Future: Working Bauer, Yehuda. “ ‘Revisionism’—^The Repudiation of Papers and Addenda. Ed. Yehuda Bauer et al. New the Holocaust and Its Historical Significance.” In The York: Pergamon Press, 1989, 2:2093-2103. Historiography of the Hoiocaust Period: Proceedings Caplan, Marc. Hitler’s Apologists: The Anti-Semitic of the Fifth Yad Vashem internationai Conference, Propaganda of Holocaust “Revisionism." New York: Jerusalem, March 1983. Ed. Yisrael Gutman and Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1993. Gideon Greif. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1988, pp. Garb, Alison B., and Alan M. Schwartz. Holocaust “Re- 697-708. visionism": A Denial of History. An Update. ADL Bolton, Judith. “Holocaust Revisionism: Editing the Facts. New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Past.” Congress Monthly 59 (July/August 1992): 9-12. B’rith, 1986. The authors would like to thank Phyllis Poses and Paul Tallarico, Information Services/Interloan Division, Queens Borough Public Library, for their assistance in obtaining materials essential for this bibliography. 17 Bulletin of Bibliography Vol. 51.N0.1 Dawidowicz, Lucy S. “Lies About the Holocaust.” Com- Pois, Robert A. “Ghosts Do Not Bleed: An Analysis of mentarylO (December 1980): 31-37. Holocaust Revisionism.” Jewish Frontier 56 (Sep- Eatwell, Roger. “The Holocaust Denial: A Study in tember-October 1989): 17-23, 34. Propaganda Technique.” In Neo-Fascism in Europe. Reich, Walter. “Denying the Holocaust: Prelude to Ed. Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson, and What?” Washington Post, 3 May 1981, p. C3. Michalina Vaughan. New York: Longman, 1991, pp. ---------- . “Erasing the Holocaust: Two Historians Untan- 120-146. gle the Perverse Ingenuity That Says It Never Hap- Felberbaum, Jacob. “Revisionism Pains Spirit of Holo- pened.” New York Times Book Review, 11 July 1993, caust Survivors.” Martyrdom and Resistance 20 pp. 1,31,33-34. (September-October 1993): 5. Schwartz, Alan. Holocaust “Revisionism": A Denial of Foster, Arnold. T h e Ultimate Cruelty.” ADL Buiietin 16 History. ADL Facts. New York: Anti-Defamation (June 1959): 1 -2 ,7 -8 . League of B’nai B’rith, 1980. Gutman, Israel. T h e Denial of the Holocaust and Its Seidel, Gill. The Holocaust Denial: Antisemitism, Consequences.” In Remembering for the Future: Racism, and the New Right. Leeds: Beyond the Pale Working Papers and Addenda. Ed. Yehuda Bauer Collective, 1986. et al. New York: Pergamon Press, 1989, 2:2116- Siamo, Brian. “False History, Gas Chambers, Blue 2124. Smoke, and Cracked Mirrors.” The Humanist 53 ----------. Denying the Hoiocaust. Jerusalem: Shazar Li- (July-August 1993): 31-33. brary, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Vidal Sas- Stern, Kenneth S. Holocaust Denial. New York: Ameri- soon International Center for the Study of can Jewish Committee, 1993. Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vidal-Naquet, Pierre. Assassins of Memory: Essays on 1985. the Denial of the Holocaust. Trans. Jeffrey Mehiman. ----------. “Holocaust, Denial of the.” In Encyciopedia of New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. the Hoiocaust. Ed. Israel Gutman. New York: Macmil- Wiesel, Elie. “What Really Happened to Six Million lan, 1990, 2:681-687. Jews.” Jewish Digest 23 (April 1978): 36-38. Haupt, Peter I. “A Universe of Lies: Holocaust Revi- Will, George. Trying to Deconstruct the Holocaust.” sionism and the Myth of a Jewish World-Conspiracy.” New York Newsday, 29 August 1993, p. 33. B.A. thesis, Williams College, 1987; shortened ver- sion in Patterns of Prejudice 25 (Summer 1991): 75-85. HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM “Holocaust ‘Revisionism’: Denial of History.” ADL Spe- ciai Edition (October 1990): n.p. IN AMERICA “Holocaust 'Revisionists’: They Keep Trying." ADL Bui- ietin 43 (March 1986): 3-4. Aronsfeld, C. C. “Hoax of the Century.” Patterns of Prej- John, Barbara J. “Holocaust Revisionism: An illustra- udice 10 (November-December 1976): 13-16; con- tion and Evaluation.” M.A. thesis. University of densed version in Jewish Digest 22 (June 1977): Wales, 1992. 23-28. Kakutani, Michiko. “When History Is a Casualty.” New ---------- . T h e Institute for Historical Review: ’Revision- York Times, 30 April 1993, pp. C l , C31. ists’ Who Whitewash Nazism.” IJA Research Re- Kopecky, Lilli. “Holocaust Denials, Neo-Nazism, Anti- ports, no. 4 (May 1982): 1-8. Semitism, Radicalism, and Terrorism.” In in the Beck, Melina, Jeff B. Copeland, and Zofia Smardz. Shadow of the Fiames: Six Lectures on the Holo- “Footnote to the Holocaust.” Newsweek 38 (19 Octo- caust, by Lilli Kopecky. Atlanta: Center for Research ber 1981): 73. in Social Change, Emory University, 1982, pp. Bishop, Katherine. “Ads on Holocaust ‘Hoax’ Stir De- 54-73. bate at Colleges.” New York Times, 23 December Levin, Nora. “Assaults on Holocaust History.” Mid- 1991, p. A12. stream 35 (April 1989): 17-21. “Bradley Smith: A Man and His Myth.” ADL Special Edi- Lipstadt, Deborah E. “Deniers, Relativists, and Pseudo- tion (February 1992): n.p. Scholarship.” Dimensions 6 (AprW 1991): 4-9. Branscum, Deborah. WWII: Just a Bad Dream.” Mother ----------. “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault Jones 6 (July 1981): 7. on Truth.” Jewish Spectator 56 (Spring 1992): T h e Butz Hoax.” Patterns of Prejudice 11 (March-April 65-66. 1977): 12-13. ---------- . Denying the Hoiocaust: The Growing Assault Campbell, Unda P. “Liberty Lobby in the Spotlight with on Truth and Memory. New York: Free Press, 1993. Duke, Buchanan in Race.” Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan- ----------. T h e Evolution of American Holocaust Revi- uary 1992, sec. I, p. 4. sionism.” In Remembering for the Future: Working Collins, Ronald K. L. T o rt Case as Gag Device.” Na- Papers and Addenda. Ed. Yehuda Bauer et al. New tional Law Journal, 15 June 1992, pp. 15-16. York: Pergamon Press, 1989,3:2579-2593. Cooper, Mary H. T h e Growing Danger of Hate ----------. “Holocaust-Denial and the Compelling Force of Groups.” Editorial Research Reports, no. 18 (12 May Reason. Patterns of Prejudice 26, nos. 1-2 (1992): 1989): 262-275. Corn, David. “Congressman, Take Hitler's Monetary Pol- 64-76. May, Michael. “Denying the Holocaust: The Back- icy. ..r The Nation 249 (11 December 1989): 708. ground, Methods and Motives of the ’Revisionists.’ ” Crawford, Fred R. T h e Holocaust and the Big Lie” [2 Index on Censorship 14 (December 1985): 29-33. parts]. Martyrdom and Resistance 8 (January-Feb- Perry, Marvin. “Denying the Holocaust: History as Myth ruary 1982): 6,12; and 8 (March-April 1982): 6. and Delusion.” Encore American & Worldwide News Degler, Carl N. ‘Bad History?” Commentary 71 (June 9 (September 1981): 2fr-32. 1981): 17. 18 Holocaust-Denial Literature Delloff, Linda Marie. “Revising Holocaust History: Mal- sional Leaders. Ed. Marcia Sachs Littell. Lewiston, ice in the Mails.” Christian Century 97 (16 July 1980): NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985, pp. 107-112. 724-725. “Middle America Responds to Holocaust Deniers.” Re- Downey, Dennis B. “Conference Report: Revisionism sponse 11 (August 1990): 19-20. and the Holocaust." OAH Newsietter2\ (February Mintz, Frank P. The Liberty Lobby and the American 1993): 9,11. Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture. Westport, CT: Drobnicki, John A. “Execution and Extermination.” New Greenwood Press, 1985. York Times Book Review, 27 December 1992, p. 4. Morton, Roger. “Truth Not Freedom.” School and Col- ---------- .
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