Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of "Truth" and "Memory" (Holocaust Handbooks Series, 1)
"There is at present no other single volume that so provides a serious reader with a broad understanding of the contemporary state of historical issues that influential people would rather not have examined." --Prof. Dr. Arthur R. Butz, Evanston, IL"There is much in the various contributions that strikes one as thoroughly convincing." ---Historian Dr. Joachim Hoffmann, Expert Trial Report"I envy the United States where such a book can be published without negative consequences. It will probably unleash a broad discussion." --Historian Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Berlin, GermanyThis book, Dissecting the Holocaust, is banned in Germany. The authorities there raided the publisher, the distributors, the sellers and anyone else they could lay their hands on, and literally burned all the copies they found. They tried to arrest the editor, who fled and is now an exile. Put it in your suitcase next time you visit there--discover the way the myth works... The book is a muliti-author compilation of scholarly articles that discuss some features of the traditional myth of the holocaust, and compare it in various ways with what is known to be plausible, logical, true, scientific, and sometimes, even, common sensical. Many of the chapters are not easy to read. They contain tables of death, graphs of HCN release rates, coke delivery schedules, and calculations of muffle capacities. If your taste runs to Wilkomirskian fantasies rather than engineering perspectives, don't bother with this book--you'll just wind up confused. If your inclination is toward the metaphysical, emotional and literary version of what happened, rather than the scientific, historical, verifiable, and objective, then just skip this book. You won't like it. Personally, I have a rather distinct prejudice in favor of graphs, tables, equations and common sense. I can even read and understand statistical arguments about census data before and after the war. I understand that eyewitness accounts are generally less reliable sources of information than contemporary documents and forensic evidence. I believe that testimony obtained by torture for show trials shortly after a major war is generally unreliable. Therefore, this book speaks to me. It tells me that for over 40 years, the plaque at Auschwitz claimed that four million died there, but which has been replaced with one that claims 1.5 million.This book is more powerful than a thousand novels like Wiesel's Night, Wilkomirski's Fragments, and Nyiszli's Auschwitz. It will be suppressed, censored and ignored for decades to com --A CustomeRead this book. Don't just read about it. The extent and duration of the pervasive insidious mythology with which our culture has become permeated, which passes for history in our school text books, with which we are inculcated daily by CNN, ABC, the History Channel, the NY Times, and Oprah Winfrey, makes it easy to dismiss this book without reading it - particularly because it is so disturbing, and the lies we have come to believe are more comforting than the truth. Yes Germar Rudolf is in jail. One should ask why we find it necessary to jail someone for expressing a viewpoint, and expressing it rationally with an almost delusional hope that by understanding the truth about the past we can live in peace in the future. Read this boo --Ivan Scheffler