How To Criticize Holocaust Denial

"4. Irving's writings on Hitler

• 4.1 Admiration
• 4.2 Exculpation

4.3 Historical method: case-studies

• (a) Irving's 'chain of documents'
• (b) Evidence at Hitler's trial in 1924
  • (i) Historical background
  • (ii) David Irving's argument
  • (iii) Inconsistencies and omission of references
  • (iv) Misrepresentation of documents; invention and falsification.
  • (v) Use of unreliable sources
  • (vi) Skewing reliable sources
  • (vii) Conclusion

(c) 'Reichskristallnacht' November 1938.

• (i) Background
• (ii) Irving's Account of the Events of the Night of 9-10 November 1938
  • (A) Misquotation and Skewing of Documents: The Goebbels Diary
  • (B) Suppression of relevant evidence: the Eberstein testimony and the Goebbels speech in the Old Town Hall
  • (C) Manipulation of evidence: The involvement of the SA in the pogrom
  • (D) Invention and manipulation of evidence: the Eberstein testimony
  • (E) Use of unreliable evidence, suppression of reliable testimony, and invention: von Below and Schaub
  • (F) False attribution of conclusions to reliable sources: the Heydrich telex
  • (G) Bending a reliable source to fit the argument: the Hess order
  • (H) Manipulation of evidence (Wiedemann testimony, Hederich testimony) and suppression of reliable documentation (Goebbels diary, Supreme Party Court Report)
  • (I) Use of insignificant evidence and suppression of important evidence: the Groscurth and von Hassell diaries
  • (J) Conclusion
• (iii) Irving's Account of Events After the Night of 9-10 November 1938
  • (A) Misquotation, manipulation, and discounting of reliable evidence to fit a preconceived argument: the Goebbels diary
  • (B) Suppression of important aspects and concentration on insignificant aspects of reliable evidence to divert attention from its significance
  • (C) Suppression of evidence: Memoirs of Hans Kehrl and Correspondence of Carl Burckhardt
  • (D) Misquotation and suppression of evidence: the von Hassell diaries
  • (E) Misrepresentation of reliable documents: the Communication of the SA Leadership
  • (F) Misconstrual of books that directly contradict Irving's arguments: the Goebbels diary
  • (G) Invention of evidence: the Ribbentrop memoirs
  • (H) Misrepresentation and presentation of irrelevant evidence: the Wolff memoirs
  • (I) False attribution of a conclusion to a reliable source: the Goebbels diary
  • (J) Misrepresentation of reliable sources: the reports to the British Foreign Office
  • (K) Use of a discredited and disreputable source: Ingrid Weckert
  • (L) Invention of evidence: testimony of Schirmeister and Fritzsche
• (iv) Conclusion"

"In dealing with Irving as a Holocaust denier, this Report has already noted a number of instances of Irving's misinterpretation and misconstrual of the sources, and subjected his inconsistent and unprofessional methods of dealing with historical evidence to critical scrutiny. However, the following case-studies, some of which are very extensive and extremely detailed, will show beyond all doubt that Lipstadt is correct in claiming that Irving misstates, misquotes, falsifies statistics, falsely attributes conclusions to reliable sources, relies on books and sources that directly contradict his arguments, quoting in a manner that completely distorts the authors' objectives, manipulates documents to serve his own purposes, skews documents and misrepresents data in order to reach historically untenable conclusions, bends historical evidence until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda, takes accurate information and shapes it to confirm his conclusions, and - a vital point not mentioned by Lipstadt - constantly suppresses or deliberately overlooks sources with which he is familiar because they contradict the line of argument he wishes to advance." (source)

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Preserving Authenticity

  "And it means deploying conservators to preserve an inventory that includes more than a ton of human hair; 110,000 shoes; 3,800 suitcases; 470 prostheses and orthopedic braces; more than 88 pounds of eyeglasses; hundreds of empty canisters of Zyklon B poison pellets; patented metal piping and showerheads for the gas chambers; hundreds of hairbrushes and toothbrushes; 379 striped uniforms; 246 prayer shawls; more than 12,000 pots and pans carried by Jews who believed that they were simply bound for resettlement; and some 750 feet of SS documents — hygiene records, telegrams, architectural blueprints and other evidence of the bureaucracy of genocide — as well as thousands of memoirs by survivors.
  The job can be harrowing and heartbreaking, but it is often performed out of a sense of responsibility." (source)

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Modern Mercenaries

The Future of World Religions

"The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths. Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion. If current trends continue, by 2050 …

• The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.
• Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
• The global Buddhist population will be about the same size it was in 2010, while the Hindu and Jewish populations will be larger than they are today.
• In Europe, Muslims will make up 10% of the overall population.
• India will retain a Hindu majority but also will have the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, surpassing Indonesia.
• In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.
• Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa." (source)