Authors: Deborah E. Lipstadt
ISBN-13: 9780060593773, ISBN-10: 0060593776
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: Reprint
Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.
Lipstadt's steadfastness, which can be seen throughout this book, stood her and historical truth well. A lesser person might have wilted under the enormous financial and media pressure. Against her nature, Lipstadt followed Julius's instruction to remain silent throughout, never speaking either in court or to the media that were not entirely fair to her. Only after the verdict did the world finally hear her voice, and only with this book do we hear it fully for the first time.
Introduction | xi | |
Note to the Reader | xv | |
Prologue: The Letter | xvii | |
The Prelude | ||
1 | A Personal and Scholarly Odyssey | 3 |
2 | The Defense Strategy | 27 |
3 | Auschwitz: A Forensic Tour | 51 |
4 | Our Objective Changes | 67 |
The Trial | ||
5 | "All Rise!" | 77 |
6 | Irving in the Box: Not a Denier but a Victim | 87 |
7 | The Chain of Documents | 99 |
8 | The Holocaust: Random Killings or Systematic Genocide? | 109 |
9 | Queues and Gas Chamber Controversies | 127 |
10 | An American Professor | 151 |
11 | Exonerating Hitler, Excoriating the Allies | 161 |
12 | Fighting Words | 173 |
13 | Revolting Calculations | 185 |
14 | Lying about Hitler | 199 |
15 | The Diary of Anne Frank: A Novel? | 211 |
16 | Our German Contingent | 223 |
17 | Cavorting with Thugs or Guilt by Association? | 233 |
18 | One-Person Gas Chambers and White People's Polkas | 243 |
19 | The Final Scene | 255 |
The Aftermath | ||
20 | Judgment Day: Phone Chains, Psalms, and Sleepless Survivors | 267 |
21 | Enormous Thanks | 285 |
22 | The "Jester's Costume" | 291 |
Afterword | 303 | |
Acknowledgments | 307 | |
Notes | 311 | |
Index | 329 |