The_Hoax_of_the_Twentieth_Century

<i>The Hoax of the Twentieth Century</i>

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

1975 Holocaust denial book

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering professor and Holocaust denier Arthur Butz. The book was originally published in 1975[1] in the United Kingdom by Anthony Hancock’s Historical Review Press,[2] known as a Holocaust denial publisher. An antisemitic work,[3][4][5] it has been influential in the Holocaust denial movement.[6] Canadian academic Alan T. Davies has described it as an "antisemitic classic".[7]

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Butz argues that Nazi Germany did not exterminate millions of Jews using homicidal gas chambers during World War II but that the Holocaust was a propaganda hoax.[8]

The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised.[9] In 2017, the online book seller Amazon.com removed the book, along with other Holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites.[10][11]

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  1. [1]
    Michael Freeden; Lyman Tower Sargent; Marc Stears (15 August 2013). The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford University Press. pp. 737–. ISBN 978-0-19-166371-0.
  2. [2]
    Rouben Paul Adalian; Steven L. Jacobs; Eric Markusen; Marc I. Sherman (March 2003). Encyclopedia of Genocide. ABC-CLIO. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-1-57607-446-6.
  3. [3]
    Schweitzer, F; Perry, M (2002). Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN 978-0312165611. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  4. [4]
    Mason, Carol (2009). Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy. Cornell University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. [5]
    Dawidowicz, Lucy (1983). The Holocaust and the Historians. Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0674405677. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. [6]
    Charny, Israel A. (1999). Encyclopedia of Genocide. Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO. pp. 181–182.
  7. [7]
    Alan Davies (1992). Davies, Alan (ed.). Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 242. ISBN 9780889202160. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  8. [8]
    Geri Yonover (2000). "Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the academy: a tort remedy". In DeCoste, F. C.; Schwartz, Bernard (eds.). The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law, and Education. University of Alberta Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0888643377. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  9. [9]
    Green, Jonathan (2005). Encyclopedia of Censorship. Facts on File. p. 234. ISBN 978-0816044641. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  10. [10]
    "Amazon UK Removes 3 Holocaust Denial Books from Sale". Times of Israel. March 9, 2017.
  11. [11]
    Ziv, Stav (6 June 2017). "Under pressure, Amazon stops selling Holocaust-denial books". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
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