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050 00 $aKD379.5.I78$bE95 2001
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100 1 $aEvans, Richard J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80162718
245 10 $aLying about Hitler :$bhistory, Holocaust, and the David Irving trial /$cRichard J. Evans.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axiv, 318 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-309) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tHistory on Trial --$gCh. 2.$tHitler and the Jews, 1924-1939 --$gCh. 3.$tHitler and the "Final Solution" --$gCh. 4.$tIrving and Holocaust Denial --$gCh. 5.$tThe Bombing of Dresden --$gCh. 6.$tIn the Witness Box --$gCh. 7.$tJudgment Day.
520 1 $a"Last Year, in the most famous Holocaust court case since the Adolf Eichmann trial, controversial author David Irving brought a libel suit against Penguin Books UK and author Deborah Lipstadt, who had denounced Irving in print as one of the most dangerous Holocaust deniers at work today. As the chief historical adviser to Penguin Books in its successful defense of Lipstadt, Richard J. Evans spent two years of research in preparation for this case.
520 8 $aIn Lying About Hitler, Evans uses the trial as a lens for exploring a range of vital questions such as who was responsible for violence and genocide against the Jews in Nazi Germany, what Hitler knew and when, and how far his henchmen Himmler and Goebbels and Nazi officials in the SS acted on their own initiative in organizing the violence and mass murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jews.".
520 8 $a"In ruling against David Irving in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the Judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Yet, one could ask, is a court of law the appropriate place to debate history? Can it really settle issues of objectivity and bias in the study of the past? Don't all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence?
520 8 $aThe judgment branded Irving a racist, an anti-Semite and an active supporter of neo-fascism. Is it possible, though, that he lost his case not because of his biased history but because his agenda was unaceptable? Evans answers these questions and more in ways that may surprise many of the commentators and pundits on the trial.
520 8 $aWhile most people would share the court's views of Irving's work, some commentators have feared that the verdict will make it all but impossible to question the accepted version of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aIrving, David John Cawdell,$d1938-$xTrials, litigation, etc.
600 10 $aLipstadt, Deborah E.$xTrials, litigation, etc.
610 20 $aPenguin (Firm)$xTrials, litigation, etc.
650 0 $aTrials (Libel)$zEngland$zLondon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010117073
650 0 $aHolocaust denial literature$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002493
852 00 $bglx$hKD379.5.I78$iE95 2001