The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by 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 highly restricted, in terms of how it can be displayed or advertised, in Germany.^[2] It has been described as anti-semitic^[3][4][5] with Alan Davies calling it an "antisemitic classic".^[6]

Notes

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.

External links

• The Hoax of the Twentieth Century at archive.org