In this incisive work, a Swiss educator, linguist and researcher unsparingly dissects the standard "mainstream" work of Holocaust history -- Raul Hilberg's three-volume Destruction of the European Jews. Graf's overview - with source notes and index -- effectively contrasts "orthodox" and "revisionist" scholarship on the emotion-laden "Holocaust" issue. The author, who was driven into political exile for writings such as this one, tackles such thorny issues as the fate of the masses of deported Jews, the role of the special Einsatzgruppen commando units in the occupied Soviet territories, the "gas chamber" evidence, and much more. Effective as an introduction to the revisionist view.
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In this incisive work, a Swiss educator, linguist and researcher unsparingly dissects the standard "mainstream" work of Holocaust history -- Raul Hilberg's three-volume Destruction of the European Jews. Graf's overview - with source notes and index -- effectively contrasts "orthodox" and "revisionist" scholarship on the emotion-laden "Holocaust" issue. The author, who was driven into political exile for writings such as this one, tackles such thorny issues as the fate of the masses of deported Jews, the role of the special Einsatzgruppen commando units in the occupied Soviet territories, the "gas chamber" evidence, and much more. Effective as an introduction to the revisionist view.