Deborah Lipstadt

Skylar Traub Ms. Del Rosario Period 1 13 November 2017 Holocaust Revisionists Revisionism is a type of moral and intellectual plaque that has spread like wildfire. Historical Revisionists have created a conspiracy of mental dishonesty and outright lies. Deniers have influenced others to believe the Holocaust is a historical fraud. Their beliefs compromise people’s perception when dealing with the validity of historical facts. Although historical revisionists are trying to falsify history by claiming

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning focuses on the true nature of the Nazi police officers during World War II and how they became infamous for their actions against the Jewish population. This piece adequately address the social context in which normal every day Germans could turn into killing machines with a sole purpose of wiping out an entire demographic of people. Browning outlines his research in his thesis which explains that “the insidious effects of constant propaganda indoctrination..

In 1990, during a poll conducted in a single state among a group of seniors in high school, it was found 50% of the students were unable to provide any information about the Holocaust (Lang 2010). The idea that so many students are unaware of such a violent and heinous crime is incomprehensible. As many students in high schools ask today, why is it important to learn about history? The answer is history provides society a way to look back and evaluate previous mistakes. Particularly with the Holocaust

Introduction Even though Holocaust denial was not a new-fangled phenomenon in Germany at the end of the 1980s, it was not before this period that it was given such public attention. For the duration of the late 1980s and near the beginning of the 1990s Germany became the arena for perhaps the most combined push for promotion that the Holocaust denial interest group has ever tried. Besides the annual conferences of the Society for Historical Review in California, Holocaust deniers did not and by

The Holocaust is a universal tragedy of almost full extermination of the Jewish population by German occupants during the Second World War. Nevertheless, even living in our times the theme of Holocaust is still a subject of poignant historiographical debates, according to the numbers of works on this event and the development of archaeology, researches from all other the world try to reveal the mystery that is hidden behind the curtain. Philosophers, politicians, and theologians give us many new

Ghettos were built in Germany and Poland to contain Jews in a small area so they could control the Jews.. The Jews were treated unfairly in the ghettos.” Warsaw had a prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city had a total population (United States Holocaust Museum). The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that kept the Jews from the non-Jewish residents of the city. While many other Jewish members went to the Warsaw ghettos camps without fight some decided to

These actions of subverting the authority of science and academia is where the Holocaust revisionists come into the picture. Many of the most prominent revisionists derive their authority from their title as historians. Perhaps the most famous of these people is David Irving. David Irving was a renowned historian in his knowledge of Nazi Germany. He published multiple books that were incredibly detailed looks into World War II. Of his works, he is well known for Hitler’s War, The Destruction of Dresden



Abstract: In this term paper, I will be focussing on the contradictory reviews on Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of The Eichmann Trial. With information from her book as well as commentary from other authors specifically David Cesarani and Deborah E. Lipstadt, I will be focussing on arguments in relation to Eichmann’s war crimes and the role he played in the mass-murder of European Jewry.

Adolf Eichmann as a man was considered to be mediocre. The importance of understanding who he was as a person

For example, a survivor of a concentration camp such as Auschwitz may describe the holocaust as a living nightmare because of the death and destruction that it caused them and their families, whereas as SS leaders may have seen this as an opportunity to stamp their authority on the situation and showcase their leadership skills. One major limitation that comes when trying to represent the holocaust involves the title that civilization has given to this period of history. Many scholars such as Bruno