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BOOKS

Denying the Holocaust: The growing assault on truth and memory by Deborah Lipstadt (Penguin, 1994) £8.99.
Reprint of the 1993 book at the centre of the libel trial. This is a fully researched and passionately argued account of the evolution of Holocaust denial from being a set of cranky ideas on the lunatic fringe to their partial acceptance in respectable academic contexts. It charts the disturbing growth of repeated attacks on the historical facts of the Holocaust and of the threat to society's historical memory of Nazi atrocities.

Hitler's War by David Irving (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977, out of print).
Considered by many to be his best work, this book is an account of the Second World War through the eyes of Adolf Hitler. It is controversial and has been widely criticised because Irving argues that because no document survives that shows Hitler issuing an order for mass murder, Hitler was unaware of any plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The book expresses Irving's view that Hitler was not a monster but a weak leader swept along by events he couldn’t control.

The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg (Holmes & Meier, 1985) £13.95.
First published in 1961, this is the internationally acclaimed first major account of the Nazi's Final Solution. It is a full and detailed book which is based on reliable historical sources and estimates the number of Jews killed as 5.1 million. Subsequent studies have amended this figure to six million.

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt (Penguin, 1994) £8.99.
In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina and smuggled to Israel to be tried for crimes against humanity. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine, coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' and argued controversially that Eichmann was an ordinary man drawn into an evil, totalitarian machine.

The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (HarperCollins, 1987) £16.99.
An extremely detailed account of the experience of the Jews in Europe during the Second World War, drawing on archive documents and the words of ordinary people who experienced the events.

The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (Routledge, 1993) £12.99.
A series of 316 maps with photographs compiled by a distinguished and reliable historian, providing a graphic outline of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe.

Hitler's Willing Executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (Abacus, 1997) £9.99.
Proof that the Holocaust remains a hotly debated subject, this controversial book by an American professor contests the idea that Germans opposed the persecution of the Jews and argues that thousands of ordinary Germans participated in the extermination of European Jews.

The Holocaust and Collective Memory by Peter Novick (Bloomsbury, 2000) £17.99.
A controversial analysis of how and why the Holocaust has become such a focus of interest now. Novick argues that portraying the Holocaust as a uniquely Jewish catastrophe has the effect of downgrading other genocides.


WEBSITES

Nizkor
www.nizkor.com
Nizkor is dedicated to remembering the nearly 12 million civilians and Prisoners of War killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, and to refuting and marginalising those who say that it never happened.

The Holocaust History Project
www.holocaust-history.org
The Holocaust History Project is a regularly updated archive of documents, photographs, recordings and essays about the Holocaust, with evidence that directly refutes the arguments of Holocaust deniers. It includes a pamphlet called 'Who Is David Irving?' about 'David Irving and his lies'.

From Revisionism to Holocaust Denial
www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/irving.html
Part of Tel Aviv University's Stephen Roth Institute site, which contains material about antisemitism and racism, is an essay by Roni Stauber called 'From Revisionism to Holocaust Denial: David Irving as a case study', which lucidly charts the development of Irving's thinking about Hitler's Final Solution.

Yad Vashem
www.yadvashem.org.il
The Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. Includes research, resources, eyewitness accounts and information about commemoration events.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org
This Washington museum was set up to advance and disseminate knowledge about the Holocaust, to preserve the memory of those who suffered, and to encourage visitors to reflect upon moral questions raised by the tragedy. Includes a vast online archive.

The Ghetto Fighters' House
www.gfh.org.il/eng/
Founded in 1949 by ghetto fighters and partisans, the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel focuses on the anti-Nazi resistance and also includes the Center for Humanistic Education, which stresses the universal implications of the Holocaust and emphasises the sanctity of human life.

Searchlight
www.searchlightmagazine.com
Set up by London-based Searchlight, the international anti-fascist magazine, the site contains news, back issues, an archive and extracts from editorials about many aspects of racism and fascism, contemporary and historical.


CREDITS

Writer: Aleks Sierz
Editor: Dee Searle
Project Manager: Roger Evans
Editorial Consultant: Julia Bard
Design: édition
Web Producer: Sam McGregor
Additional research: Kate Taylor (Searchlight magazine)
Proofreader: Elaine Pollard
Consultant: David Cesarani

The Holocaust on Trial is a 3BM Television production for Channel 4.

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