Deborah Lipstadt - Denying the Holocaust

“The Public Stake,” p. 228; Brainwashing, p. 2.

Brainwashing, p. 34.

Ibid., pp. 2, 25.

Ibid., p. 39.

Ibid., p. 42.

Ibid., p. 43.

Harry Elmer Barnes to Oswald Garrison Villard, November 11, 1945; Oswald Garrison Villard to Harry Elmer Barnes, November 14, 1945, in the collection of Harvard University. Barnes originally met Villard in 1926 when Villard had come to lecture in Barnes’s classes at Smith College. They both shared revisionist views regarding World War I and World War II, though Barnes was far more extreme about the latter.

Novick, That Noble Dream, p. 218.

“The Public Stake,” p. 219.

Ibid.

Memo from Barry Youngerman to Jerry Bakst, June 27, 1967, archives of the Anti-Defamation League, New York.

Justus Doenecke, “Harry Elmer Barnes: Prophet of a ‘Usable’ Past,” History Teacher, vol. 8 (Feb. 1975).

Arnold Forster, “The Ultimate Cruelty,” ADL Bulletin (June 1959), pp. 7–8.

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, September 7, 1948; Leonard Dinnerstein, America and the Survivors of the Holocaust (New York, 1982), p. 222.

Thomas R. O’Donnell to Deborah E. Lipstadt, April 18, 1991; Thomas R. O’Donnell, telephone interview with author, Oct. 1992.

Austin App, “Foreword,” Morgenthau Era Letters, 2nd printing (Tacoma Park, Md., 1975).

App, A Straight Look, p. 40.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, pp. 13–14.

Ibid., p. 21.

Ibid., p. 33.

S. F. Berton, “Das Attentat auf Reinhard Heydrich vom 27 Mai 1942: Ein Bericht des Kriminalrats Heinz Pannwitz,” Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte (July 1985), pp. 668–706. See also J. Bradley, Lidice: Sacrificial Village (New York, 1972); T. Wittlin, Time Stopped at 6:30 (Indianapolis, 1965); and “Lidice,” Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, p. 49.

Ibid., p. 51.

Ibid., p. 59.

Ibid., p. 66.

At the end of 1946 the official American total of Jewish survivors in the western zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy was 207,788. The Joint Distribution Committee, which assisted the survivors, estimated that there were 231,500. Many of these were refugees who had spent the war years in Central Asia. Dinnerstein, America and the Survivors, p. 278. See also Malcolm Proudfoot, European Refugees: 1939–1952 (Evanston, Ill, 1956), pp. 339, 341.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, pp. 66–67. Judge Simon H. Rifkind was the army’s adviser on Jewish affairs in Germany in 1945–46.

“Repatriation of Displaced Persons, March 1946” (U.S. Zone), Monthly Report of Military Governor, U.S. Zone, April 20, 1946, cited in Dinnerstein, America and the Survivors, p. 275.

Austin App, The Six Million Swindle: Blackmailing the German People for Hard Marks with Fabricated Corpses (Tacoma Park, Md., 1973), p. 8.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, p. 79.

Peter Kleist, Auch Du Warst Dabei! (You too were involved!), (Heidelberg, 1952), cited in Aronsfeld, The Text of the Holocaust, p. 53.

App, The Six Million Swindle, pp. 7–8.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, p. 101 (italics added). He reiterated this argument in The Six Million Swindle, pp. 7–8.

App, The Six Million Swindle, p. 8.

Richard L. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future (New York, 1975), p. 22.

Max Weber, “Bureaucracy,” in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds., From Max Weber, pp. 215–16. See also Talcott Parsons, “Introduction to Max Weber,” The Sociology of Religion (Boston, 1963) cited in Rubenstein, The Cunning of History, pp. 22–23.

App, Morgenthau Era Letters, p. 95.

App, The Six Million Swindle, p. 4.

App, “The Elusive ‘Six Million,’” American Mercury, Summer 1966, reprinted in The Myth of the Six Million (Torrance, Calif., 1978), p. 112.

App, The Six Million Swindle, p. 2.

“Reparations and Restitution,” Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, pp. 1255–59.

App, The Six Million Swindle, p. 29.

App, A Straight Look, p. 18 (italics added).

Ibid., pp. 5, 19, 39.

Robert Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (New York, 1991), p. 53.

App, A Straight Look, pp. 19–20.

Henry Morgenthau, Germany Is Our Problem (New York, 1945).

App, A Straight Look, pp. 28–29.

Ibid., p. 30.

Ibid., p. 48.

Ibid.

App, The Six Million Swindle, pp. 18–19.

Ibid., pp. 23–24.

Yisrael Gutman makes a similar argument in response to Arthur Butz’s claim that Yad Vashem’s inability to gather six million names is proof that such a number is a hoax. Yisrael Gutman, Denying the Holocaust (Jerusalem, 1985), p. 20.

Jerusalem Post, Aug. 17, 1986; IHR Newsletter (Oct.-Nov. 1987), p. 4.

Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, p. 631.

App, The Six Million Swindle, p. 9.

Ibid., p. 16.

Sunday Times, Feb. 23, 1975; it was also published under the title Six Million Lost and Found.

New Statesman, Nov. 2, 1979, p. 670.

Sunday Times, Feb. 23, 1975.

Books and bookmen (May 1975), p. 5. For background on the ideology of the National Front see Richard C. Thurlow, “The Witches’ Brew,” in Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 5–6 (1978), pp. 1–9.

Seidel, The Holocaust Denial, p. 113.