Can I read The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial on EtoBox?

The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial by Robert Jan van Van Pelt, Robert Jan Van Pelt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial about?

<P>From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.</P>

Who reads The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence From the Irving Trial?

Author

Robert Jan van Van Pelt, Robert Jan Van Pelt

Publisher

Indiana University Press ; Combined Academic

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253340160

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Judaism, Fiction

Rating

4.43 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14