The Holocaust Denial: It's Effects

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The Holocaust Denial

The denial of the Holocaust is considered one of the most notable anti-Semitic propaganda movements to deny or minimize the established history of Nazi genocide against the Jews during World War II (Caplan 1). “Roots of the Holocaust denial can be found in the bureaucratic language of Nazi policy itself, which sought to camouflage the genocidal intent of what the Nazis called the ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question” (Caplan 2). Holocaust deniers that have since taken root in the neo-Nazi group are called revisionists. These revisionists have founded the Institute for Historical Review that publishes anti-Semitic pamphlets, websites, and books that are backed by its accredited college professors. The denial movement attacked the authority of testimony, facts and evidence used in the Jewish genocide in order to question the validity of the Holocaust in whole.
The Institute of Historical Review (IHR) was established in 1978 by Willis Carto to be a Holocaust denial organization to distribute revisionist propaganda. This organization carries the goal of propagating anti-Semitism in the United States through their publication, the Journal of Historical Review. The IHR is a “conglomeration of Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, philo-Germans, right wing extremists, anti Semites, racists and conspiracy theorists” (Lipstadt 137). When interviewed by Playboy magazine, American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell, a heavy affiliate of the IHR, he was quoted as saying; “It was self defense for people


to kill Jews” (Stern 51). The Institute for Historical was heavily responsible for all attacks and accusations concerning the validity of the Holocaust.
The Institute for Historical based its theories on their attacks on facts, figures, evidence and personal testimony that they nullified in order to promote their Holocaust denial theme. When reviewing their claims, historians have found that, ...