Posted on Nov 4, 2023
The Price of Truth: History, Deborah Lipstadt, and the Libel Trial | Perspectives on History |...
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A good read. TP, "It is rare for an academic returning to the campus to be received as a conquering hero, to have her story spread on the front pages of newspapers—but that is exactly what happened to historian Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University."
The Price of Truth: History, Deborah Lipstadt, and the Libel Trial | Perspectives on History |...
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MSgt Steve Sweeney thanks for the interesting article.
..."1994 Deborah Lipstadt published Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. The book, a strong seller for Plume in the United States, and which attracted wide and favorable publicity in the popular press, was an exploration and exposé of a movement in the United States and abroad that had been asserting, in Lipstadt's words, that "Jews are not victims but victimizers" and that "[t]hey 'stole' billions in reparations, destroyed Germany's good name by spreading the 'myth' of the Holocaust, and won international sympathy because of what they claimed had been done to them." This argument became the building block for the deniers' ultimate claim—that Jews "used the world's sympathy to 'displace' another people so that the state of Israel could be established."
In her book, Lipstadt described David Irving, a prolific writer and author who lives in London, as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." According to Lipstadt, Irving occupies an especially critical place in the movement because he presents the appearance of a legitimate historian while in reality he obfuscates the truth by consciously manipulating or fabricating evidence. Although branded in 1989 by some members of the British House of Commons as a "Nazi propagandist and longtime Hitler apologist," his reputation received a boost in 1992 when the London Sunday Times handed him a special historical assignment."...
..."1994 Deborah Lipstadt published Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. The book, a strong seller for Plume in the United States, and which attracted wide and favorable publicity in the popular press, was an exploration and exposé of a movement in the United States and abroad that had been asserting, in Lipstadt's words, that "Jews are not victims but victimizers" and that "[t]hey 'stole' billions in reparations, destroyed Germany's good name by spreading the 'myth' of the Holocaust, and won international sympathy because of what they claimed had been done to them." This argument became the building block for the deniers' ultimate claim—that Jews "used the world's sympathy to 'displace' another people so that the state of Israel could be established."
In her book, Lipstadt described David Irving, a prolific writer and author who lives in London, as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." According to Lipstadt, Irving occupies an especially critical place in the movement because he presents the appearance of a legitimate historian while in reality he obfuscates the truth by consciously manipulating or fabricating evidence. Although branded in 1989 by some members of the British House of Commons as a "Nazi propagandist and longtime Hitler apologist," his reputation received a boost in 1992 when the London Sunday Times handed him a special historical assignment."...
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
I found the difference between U.S. and English libel standards to be very interesting.
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