Deniers Of The Holocaust

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Summary: Holocaust deniers and their contempt for the truth
Review: "There are two sides to every argument. However, the two sides are not always equal in truth, motive, or goodwill," declares Ted Gottfried. The author's succinctly written work admirably serves as an introduction to the bizarre phenomenon of holocaust denial. The art work of Stephen Alcorn beautifully compliments Gottfried's efforts to explain why many persist to believe the Nazi holocaust never occurred. Regardless of the overwhelming evidence, these anti-Semites rationalize away their disbelief by offering excuses that border on madness. No implausible conspiracy theory is avoided if it assists in maligning Jews and others deemed a threat to the Aryan majority. Some like the highly credentialled historian David Irving should know better. He is a well educated man who should laugh at the assertions of the deniers. Nonetheless, this self described "moderate fascist" goes so far as to reject all holocaust survivor testimony as instances of psychiatric illness. Irving's particular circumstances compel a democratic culture to distinguish between the freedom to publish, and the right to be taken seriously. A free society may have to permit Irving's weird ideas to enter the public debate, but he has no right to demand respect for such inept scholarship.

The holocaust deniers believe that the Jews deserve punishment for their alleged betrayal of their respective homelands. They ironically argue that while the holocaust never happened, the Jews still deserved to be punished for their misdeeds. Ludicrous myths about the supposed duplicity and back stabbing behavior of the Jews contributed greatly to the beginnings of the Nazi "final solution." Moral relativists attempt to minimize the horror of the Nazi holocaust by comparing it other atrocities. Gottfried right fires back pointing out that two wrongs don't make a right. The author alerts us to the relatively new phenomenon of numerous Internet sites devoted to hate. Also, major prominent politicians such as Austrian Jorg Haider praise many former Third Reich policies. The book's only glaring weakness is its ignoring of the negative impact of holocaust denial theories on the Islamic militants. This is especially frightening after the attacks of 9/11. I'm sure that Ted Gottfried will make up for this oversight in a future work. "Deniers of the Holocaust" is a worthy addition to the area of your library devoted to holocaust studies.

Rating:
Summary: Holocaust deniers and their contempt for the truth
Review: "There are two sides to every argument. However, the two sides are not always equal in truth, motive, or goodwill," declares Ted Gottfried. The author's succinctly written work admirably serves as an introduction to the bizarre phenomenon of holocaust denial. The art work of Stephen Alcorn beautifully compliments Gottfried's efforts to explain why many persist to believe the Nazi holocaust never occurred. Regardless of the overwhelming evidence, these anti-Semites rationalize away their disbelief by offering excuses that border on madness. No implausible conspiracy theory is avoided if it assists in maligning Jews and others deemed a threat to the Aryan majority. Some like the highly credentialled historian David Irving should know better. He is a well educated man who should laugh at the assertions of the deniers. Nonetheless, this self described "moderate fascist" goes so far as to reject all holocaust survivor testimony as instances of psychiatric illness. Irving's particular circumstances compel a democratic culture to distinguish between the freedom to publish, and the right to be taken seriously. A free society may have to permit Irving's weird ideas to enter the public debate, but he has no right to demand respect for such inept scholarship.

The holocaust deniers believe that the Jews deserve punishment for their alleged betrayal of their respective homelands. They ironically argue that while the holocaust never happened, the Jews still deserved to be punished for their misdeeds. Ludicrous myths about the supposed duplicity and back stabbing behavior of the Jews contributed greatly to the beginnings of the Nazi "final solution." Moral relativists attempt to minimize the horror of the Nazi holocaust by comparing it other atrocities. Gottfried right fires back pointing out that two wrongs don't make a right. The author alerts us to the relatively new phenomenon of numerous Internet sites devoted to hate. Also, major prominent politicians such as Austrian Jorg Haider praise many former Third Reich policies. The book's only glaring weakness is its ignoring of the negative impact of holocaust denial theories on the Islamic militants. This is especially frightening after the attacks of 9/11. I'm sure that Ted Gottfried will make up for this oversight in a future work. "Deniers of the Holocaust" is a worthy addition to the area of your library devoted to holocaust studies.

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Summary: "Deniers of the Wholecaust" by RexCurry(...)
Review: A very good book, but needs more info on deniers of the Wholecaust (written of elsewhere about why the media never mention the socialist trio of atrocities: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 62 million deaths; People's Republic of China, 35 million; the National Socialist German Workers' Party, 21 million (According to R. J. Rummel's article in the Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999)). Let's hope the author does additional volumes to expand on the topic. "Deniers of the Holocaust" would be better if it were entitled "Deniers of the Wholecaust" and was part of a series, or included the broader topic.

While the book does a spectacular job on the deniers of the Holocaust, the book says almost nothing about the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in the People's Republic of China and the fact that they both independently killed more people than did the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party. Together, they committed the worst atrocities of all time.

The book explores the mind of the Holocaust-deniers. It would be equally helpful to explore the minds that promoted all socialism and those who cover-up the hate-spewing radical paramilitary societies created in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of China, with the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party. Many books that explore the mind of deniers of the Holocaust of the National Socialist German Workers' Party inexplicably fail to compare the mind of Wholecaust deniers that also included the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of China and all the other examples of socialist atrocities.

The Union of Soviet Socialist had hatred for the bourgeoisie, inspired by Karl Marx, who himself intended to libel Jewish folks when he said they were the quintessential capitalists and worthy of total contempt, in his infamous essay, "On the Jewish Question." Marxists and socialists had no interest in "the weak," only in the loyal, and their "language of social justice" concerned a totalitarian plan for a new man, or more accurately an ant in an ant hill.

Moral relativists attempt to minimize the horror of the socialist Wholecaust by only mentioning the part of the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party.

The book provides a lot of information that explains why most media use the word "Nazi" to cover-up for the horrid "National Socialist German Workers' Party," in a vain effort to rehabilitate socialism. Most media will not fully identify the atrocious "National Socialist German Workers' Party" and use the abbreviations "Nazi" & "Nazis" & "Nazism" in a hackneyed lazy manner, so that there is now rampant ignorance of the full phrase in the public, and now even in the media.