History on trial
Subtitle: my day in court with  David Irving
By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780060593766
Subjects: Historiography; Holocaust denial; Trials, litigation; Auschwitz-Lüge; Holocaust; Ontkenning (algemeen); Verleumdung; Nationaal-socialisme; Revisionisme (geschiedenis); Prozess; Trials (Libel); Penguin (Firm); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: A personal and scholarly odyssey; title: The defense strategy; title: Auschwitz : a forensic tour; title: Our objective changes; title: "All rise!"; title: Irving in the box : not a denier but a victim; title: The chain of documents; title: The Holocaust : random killings or systematic genocide?; title: Queues and gas chamber controversies; title: An American professor; title: Exonerating Hitler, excoriating the Allies; title: Fighting words; title: Revolting calculations; title: Lying about Hitler; title: The diary of Anne Frank : a novel?; title: Our German contingent; title: Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association?; title: One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas; title: The final scene; title: Judgment day : phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors; title: Enormous thanks; title: The "jester's costume."