Has anyone read "Denying the Holocaust" by Deborah Lipstadt? Feedback Please!!! ONLY serious replies!!!

This is a carefully researched and well written study of what holocaust deniers and revisionists have been saying and writing since the late 1940s. Ms Lipstadt makes very clear their political agendas, sometimes hidden and sometimes not, such as anti-semitism and the political rehabilitation of nazism. Of course, a lot has happened since the book's publication in 1994: changes in the law on racial incitement and holocaust denial, the unsuccessful lawsuit of David Irving, amongst others, and the huge expansion of hate sites on the internet. Indeed, the internet is now (unlike in 1994) the main media outlet for those wishing to deny the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz or claiming that allied crimes were worse than nazi ones. The author suggests rightly that holocaust deniers will increasingly try to find a respectable and intellectual image for their claims. This the net allows them to do. It is perhaps desirable that a revised edition of this book appears soon to analyse more recent developments. Ms Lipstadt's account of the odd careers of many deniers, such as self-styled expert on gas chambers Fred Leuchter, is masterful. She really does know her enemies.

I know that Deborah Lipstadt was sued for libel by Nazi historian David Irving in England for her statements in the book. Despite England's much looser rules for libel, she was vindicated. Irving, in the course of the suit, admitted that he may have been mistaken about some of his Holocaust claims. He is now in jail in Austria for Holocaust denial.

Deborah Lipstadt SUED Nazi historian David Irving. She intentionally brought the suit in England to shift the burden of proof/production to the defense side (they must prove they are not guilty, vs. US simply requires they prove him guilty).

It would have been easier to remain in the US and require Irving prove that he was innocent.

At the trial, she refused to speak to him. Her response is basically: you can't reason with ignorance so why bother? They're idiots.

I don't read anti-semitic dogma or dignify it with serious responses. One must consider what the agenda of holocaust deniers really is.

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if anyone thinks that the holocaust didn't happen they need to go back ot their home planet, or go find hitler