Deborah Lipstadt: Denying the Holocaust

Maier, The Unmasterable Past, p. 76.

Michael Marius, The Holocaust in History (Hanover, N.H., 1987), p. 24. For a more complete discussion of this point see Maier, The Unmasterable Past, pp. 66–99, and Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, pp. 66–91.

Maier, The Unmasterable Past, pp. 74–75.

Ernst Nolte, “Between Myth and Revisionism,” in Aspects of the Third Reich, ed. H. W. Koch (London, 1985), p. 27; Maier, The Unmasterable Past, p. 29.

Nolte, Bürgerkrieg, pp. 500, 509–13, 592–93, n. 26, 29; Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, p. 168, n. 28.

Nolte, Bürgerkrieg, pp. 317–18; also Nolte, “Vergangenheit”; Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, p. 152, n. 20.

Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, p. 123.

For discussion of another way the “yes, but” syndrome manifested itself during the war and prevented many Americans, particularly publishers, editors, and reporters, from grasping the implications of the reports they were receiving, see Lipstadt, Beyond Belief, p. 270.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mar. 17, 1992.

According to Stephen J. Roth, only two of the laws, the French and Romanian, make specific reference to antisemitism. Stephen J. Roth, “Denial of the Holocaust as an Issue of Law” (to be published in Israel Yearbook of Human Rights ).

U.S. Newswire, Aug. 27, 1992; Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug. 28, 1992.

It also offered a critique of the Nuremberg trials which “astounded” those present in the courtroom ( Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Apr. 19, 1991).

Wall Street Journal, Apr. 9, 1985.

“Morning Edition,” National Public Radio, December 1992.

Spotlight, June 1, 1992.

Ronald K. L. Collins, “Tort Case as Gag Device,” National Law Journal, June 15, 1992, p. 15.

Toronto Sun, Oct. 15, 1992; Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Nov. 16, 1992.

Document No. NI-9912, cited in Technique, p. 18.

Ibid., p. 19.

Ibid., pp. 16, 165.

Robert Faurisson, Reply to Pierre Vidal-Naquet, quoted in Technique, p. 505.

“Deficiencies,” p. 38; Technique, p. 16.

Technique, p. 18.

Le Monde, Jan 16, 1979, p. 13; Technique, p. 429.

Technique, p. 165.

Ibid., p. 429.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Auschwitz State Museum (Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim [PMO], file BW 30/40, p. 100; Technique, pp. 430–32.

Technique, p. 503.

Ibid., p. 548.

Faurisson, Statement for the Defense, cited in Technique, p. 505.

Faurisson, “Reply to Pierre Vidal-Naquet, p. 78.

Technique, p. 554.

PMO file BW 30/28, p. 73, cited in Technique, p. 553.

PMO file BW 30/28, p. 68, cited in ibid., p. 555.

Technique, p. 554. When he discovered this document Pressac confronted Faurisson and told him that because of the many references to gas in the museum archives he no longer believed Faurisson’s thesis was valid.

Technique, p. 367.

Ibid., p. 432.

PMO file BW 30/25, p. 7, cited in Technique, p. 432.

Ibid., pp. 434, 438.

PMO file BW 30/25, p. 7, cited in Technique, pp. 367, 432.

BW 30/34, pp. 49, 50, cited in Technique, pp. 434, 438–39.

Technique, pp. 434, 436, 438–39.

Bauleitung drawing 252, PMO neg. no. 20943/181, reproduced in Technique, p. 512.

Bauleitung drawing 3764, PMO file BW 2/38, reproduced in Technique, p. 514.

March 29, 1944, Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition (New York, 1989), p. 578 (hereafter cited as Diary of Anne Frank).

Gerrold van der Stroom, “The Diaries, Het Achterhuis and the Translations,” Diary of Anne Frank, pp. 59–61.

Ibid., p. 63.

New York Times Book Review, June 15, 1952; Congress Weekly, Nov. 13, 1950; National Jewish Post, June 30, 1952; David Barnouw, “The Play,” Diary of Anne Frank, p. 78.

New York Law Journal, Feb. 27, 1959 cited in Barnouw, “The Play,” p. 80.

New York Times, Nov. 27, 1966; Meyer Levin, The Obsession (New York, 1973), p. 262.

David Barnouw, “Attacks on the Authenticity of the Diary,” Diary of Anne Frank, p. 84.

Ibid., p. 84.

Ibid., pp. 84–89.

Teressa Hendry, “Was Anne Frank’s Diary a Hoax?” American Mercury (Summer 1967), reprinted in Myth of the Six Million, pp. 109–111.

Harwood, Did Six Million Really Die?, p. 19.

Hoax, p. 37.

Ditlieb Felderer, Anne Frank’s Diary—A Hoax? (Taby, Sweden, 1978). When the book was reprinted by the IHR the question mark was omitted from the title.

Dec. 6, 1943, Diary, pp. 424, 425.

Robert Faurisson, Le Journal d’Anne Frank est-il authentique? in Serge Thion, Vérité historique or vérité politique? (Paris, 1980), Barnouw, “Attacks on the Authenticity,” pp. 94–95.

Aug. 5, 1943, Diary of Anne Frank, p. 385.

Dec. 6, 1943, Ibid., p. 424.

Nov. 9, 1943, Ibid., p. 301.

Robert Faurisson, Het Dagboek van Anne Frank —een vervalsing (The diary of Anne Frank—a forgery) (Antwerp, 1985), p. 18, cited in Barnouw, p. 95.

Barnouw, “Attacks on the Authenticity,” p. 96.

Opinion of Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau, May 28, 1980; Hamburg, Landgericht, Romer/Geiss dossier, cited in Barnouw, “Attacks on the Authenticity,” pp. 97–98.