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Author: Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt

Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta where she directs the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies.
Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence

Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence

August 1, 2003 | Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt
In her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, historian Deborah Lipstadt examines Holocaust denial: the myth that the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis never occurred. Once the deniers have absolved the Nazis of this central accusation, their next step is usually to claim that their warfare was similar to that of the Allies.