The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case
now dramatized in the film Denial. The 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. For years those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on
the lunatic fringe. But they have now begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas. In this
famous book reissued now to coincide with the film based on the legal case it provoked Denial
Deborah Lipstadt shows how--despite tens of thousands of witnesses and vast amounts of
documentary evidence--this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has
become an international movement with independent research centres and official publications
that promote a revisionist view of recent history. Denying the Holocaust argues that this
chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but has an unsuspected power to
dramatically alter the way that truth and meaning are transmitted from one generation to
another.
