Holocaust Denial: Background and Examples
by H. Marcuse, UCSB, July 28, 2004 (back to workshop main page)
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title slide		 Slide02
which goals (from state history standards)?		 Slide03
revisionism vs. denial: definitions		 Slide04
general background
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how denial has evolved: Shermer/Grobman		 Slide06
list of strategies that deniers use 		Slide07
scan from my book, Legacies of Dachau 		Slide08
how alt.revisionism quoted the previous boxed text
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alt.revisionism's interpretation of my text		 Slide10
deniers put Dachau museum on defensive 		Slide11
the Dachau gas chamber sign today		 Slide12
denier article about Anne Frank's diary
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Faurisson outlines what he will do in his "analysis" 		Slide14
total BS with a rhetorical flourish		 Slide15
and on and on ...		 Slide16
The Critical Edition is a superb book!
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they are racists and antisemites, nothing more
(image 1, image 2)		 Slide18
underlying reasons for denial 		Slide19
for a personal decision, EIEIO is of less use than the psychological model 		cover of Shermer/Grobman: Denying History
see also the references on my handout.
Shermer/Grobman:
Denying History (2000) is recommended for purchase
more information on Denial can be found in my Hist 33D class project on David Irving;
and and interview with a denier on my Holocaust Oral History Project website
Marcuse showing title slide showing slide of history of denial slide of evolution of denial
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