Holocaust Denial: Background and Examples
by H. Marcuse, UCSB, July 28, 2004 (back to workshop main page)
Slide01
title slide
Slide02
which goals (from state history standards)?
Slide03
revisionism vs. denial: definitions
Slide04
general background
Slide05
how denial has evolved: Shermer/Grobman
Slide06
list of strategies that deniers use
Slide07
scan from my book, Legacies of Dachau
Slide08
how alt.revisionism quoted the previous boxed text
Slide09
alt.revisionism's interpretation of my text
Slide10
deniers put Dachau museum on defensive
Slide11
the Dachau gas chamber sign today
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denier article about Anne Frank's diary
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Faurisson outlines what he will do in his "analysis"
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total BS with a rhetorical flourish
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and on and on ...
Slide16
The Critical Edition is a superb book!
Slide17
they are racists and antisemites, nothing more
(image 1, image 2)
Slide18
underlying reasons for denial
Slide19
for a personal decision, EIEIO is of less use than the psychological model
cover of Shermer/Grobman: Denying History
see also the references on my handout.
Shermer/Grobman:
Denying History
(2000) is recommended for purchase

more information on Denial can be found in my Hist 33D class project on David Irving;
and and interview with a denier on my Holocaust Oral History Project website
Marcuse showing title slide showing slide of history of denial slide of evolution of denial

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