Good Holocaust books dealing with holocaust denial?

by stardustsuperwizard

I understand that I could read the histories in the book list, but Ideally I would like to read something that specifically targets the common arguments made by deniers, and has a focus on explaining what the sources and the like are. If only because I encounter a couple deniers on various things and it would be easier for me to engage with them if I had a more targeted work I could refer to rather than just a history of it.

kieslowskifan

Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman's Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? is a survey of deniers.

Good luck engaging Deniers though, it's equivalent to yelling at a brick wall. Denialism thrives off of ahistorical arguments and although many deniers style themselves as historians or skeptics, they are not playing by the evidentiary rules of either.

estherke

For in-depth refutations of deniers' claims you have to turn to the internet, not books. Here are some resources:

The Holocaust Controversies blog is engaged in a perpetual fight with deniers. They have published the definite refutation of deniers' claims on the Operation Reinhard Camps here.

Holocaust Denial on Trial: maintained by Emory University, where Deborah Lipstadt teaches. Lipstadt is the academic who was sued by denier David Irving for libel (in the UK), a trial that she won. The website uses many of the trial documents, because the five-year trial turned into something of a "prove the Holocaust happened" thing. If you're interested in the trial itself, Lipstadt has written a book about it: History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005). The HDOT website is about much more than the trial, though, among other things it has these excellent "Myth/Fact Sheets" that address the main denier talking points.

The Nizkor Project: very 1990s-looking and rather chaotic website but if you persevere you can find excellent resources here.