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The Multiple Distortions of Holocaust Memory

October 28, 2007 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Recent years have seen greatly increased attempts to manipulate Holocaust history and its memory. For several decades much attention has been devoted to Holocaust denial. Distortions of the Holocaust past, however, occur in many other ways. The number of mutations of such distortions is also expanding. Manipulations belong to several groupings, such as: Holocaust Promotion, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Depreciation, Holocaust Deflection, Prewar and Wartime Holocaust Equivalence, Postwar Holocaust

Ernst Nolte and the Memory of the Shoah

October 1, 2002 | Prof. Sergio Itzhak Minerbi

Nolte’s path is haphazard and contradictory in an effort to en-joy both worlds: to avoid being seen as a negationist of the Shoah while allowing himself to make a series of outrageous and prepos-terous points regarding the Shoah. His trajectory and tactics are revealed extensively as is the array of claims he makes. Nolte equates Zionism to Nazism and envisages a future recognition of Hitler as the originator of the State of Israel.