Introduction: Who Speaks for the Past?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Foreword XIII
5. A Note on Terminology XVII
6. Acknowledgments XIX
7. Introduction: Who Speaks for the Past? 1
8. PART I • FREE SPEECH AND HISTORY
9. 1. Giving the Devil His Due 7
10. z. The Noble Dream 19
11. PART II • INSIDE THE DENIAL MOVEMENT
12. 3. Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened? 39
13. 4. Why They Say the Holocaust Never Happened 75
14. 5. How Deniers Distort History 99
15. PART III • ARGUMENTS AND REFUTATIONS
16. 6. The Crooked Timber of Auschwitz 121
17. 7. "For God's Sake—Terrible" 173
18. 8. The Evil of Banality 199
19. PART IV • TRUTH AND HISTORY
20. 9. The Rape of History 229
21. 10. The New Revisionism 257
22. Epilogue: Enigma: The Faustian Bargain of David Irving 271
23. Notes 283
24. Bibliography 309
25. Index 327