Screen LibraryHolocaust and genocide denial : a contextual perspective /
This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more t...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more than one academic discipline: to historians, the gradual disappearance of the generation of eyewitnesses raises the question of how to keep alive the memory of the events, and the fact that negationism is often offered in the guise of historical 'revisionist scholarship' also means that there is ne |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138672734 1138672734 |
| Index Number: | KZ7180 |
| CLC: | D995 |
| Call Number: | D995/H754 |
| Contents: |
Alexander Ratcliffe : British holocaust denial in embryo / Countering Holocaust denial in relation to the Nuremberg trials / Holocaust denial in the age of web 2.0 : negationist discourse since the Irving-Lipstadt trial / Silence and denial in gulag testimonies : listening for the unspeakable / Presence of the past : on the significance of the Holocaust and the criminalisation of its negation in the federal Republic of Germany / Prohibition of glorification of national socialism as an additio |