The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

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The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering professor Arthur Butz. First published in 1976 by Historical Review Press, it attempts to refute the idea of the Holocaust that Nazi Germany tried to exterminate millions of Jews using homicidal gas chambers during World War 2, and is influential in the Holocaust denial movement.[1] The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised.[2] It has been described as anti-semitic[3][4][5] with Alan Davies calling it an "antisemitic classic".[6] In 2017, the online book seller Amazon.com removed the book, along with other holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites.[7][8]

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  1. ^ Charny, Israel A. Encyclopedia of Genocide Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, 1999, pp. 181–182.
  2. ^ Green, Jonathan (2005). Encyclopedia of Censorship. Facts on File. p. 234. ISBN 978-0816044641. Retrieved 17 August 2016. 
  3. ^ Schweitzer, F; Perry, M (2002). Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN 978-0312165611. Retrieved 17 August 2016. 
  4. ^ Mason, Carol (2009). Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy. Cornell University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0. Retrieved 17 August 2016. 
  5. ^ Dawidowicz, Lucy (1983). The Holocaust and the Historians. Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0674405677. Retrieved 17 August 2016. 
  6. ^ Alan Davies (1992). Davies, Alan, ed. Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 242. Retrieved 17 August 2016. 
  7. ^ Times of Israel. "Amazon UK Removes 3 Holocaust Denial Books from Sale." March 9, 2017
  8. ^ Ziv, Stav (6 June 2017). "Under pressure, Amazon stops selling Holocaust-denial books". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 17 June 2017. 

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