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The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Eleven: What Can and Should Be Done?

Posted on 23/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 23, 2017

As time passes Holocaust history lends itself more to manipulations, despite the increase in historical information. This process will not stop, and this consideration has to be the starting point for the development of policies on how to preserve the … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Ten: The Importance of Apologies

Posted on 23/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 23, 2017

In the struggle against Holocaust distorters, particular attention should be given to the  official  apologies  by  nations  and  institutions  that  were  perpetrators, accomplices, or bystanders in the Holocaust. A few examples will illustrate their importance. Apologies to a large extent … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Nine: Obliterating Holocaust Memory

Posted on 23/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 23, 2017

The category of “obliterating Holocaust memory” groups a number of disparate abuses and distortions of Holocaust history. Collective memory is attacked directly and indirectly. One type of the former is the besmirching and destruction of memorials. Another is disturbing Holocaust … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Eight: Holocaust Trivialization

Posted on 21/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 22, 2017

Holocaust trivialization is a tool for some ideologically or politically motivated activists to metaphorically compare phenomena they oppose with the industrial- scale extermination of the Jews in World War II by Germans and their allies. Examples of such comparisons include … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Seven: Holocaust Inversion: The Portraying of Israel and Jews as Nazis

Posted on 21/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 22, 2017

Holocaust inversion seeks to delegitimize Israel by associating it with the epitome of evil and criminal behavior, Nazi Germany. It attacks and humiliates the Jewish people by equating them with the perpetrators of the brutal genocide whose goal was the … [Read More]

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The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Six: Holocaust Equivalence

Posted on 21/04/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldApril 22, 2017

Within the broad category of abuse of Holocaust equivalence, there are a number of subcategories of manipulations of history whose motivations differ. Prewar and wartime Holocaust equivalence are based on the allegation that the Germans’ genocidal behavior during World War … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Five: Holocaust De-Judaization

Posted on 13/03/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldMarch 13, 2017

Holocaust de-Judaization consists of a variety of distortions of Holocaust memory. These include the broadening of the term Holocaust to various extents to include people other than Jews who were part of a genocide, or were murdered or died in … [Read More]

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The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Four: Holocaust Deflection and Whitewashing

Posted on 13/03/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldMarch 13, 2017

Holocaust deflection entails admitting that the Holocaust happened while denying the complicity or various types of participation of countries, specific groups, or individuals, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Major examples of deflection occur in those countries where, during the … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Three: Holocaust Denial

Posted on 13/03/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldMarch 13, 2017

Holocaust denial can be defined as the rejection of the main facts of the extermination of the Jews in World War II. One frequently heard statement is that the majority of them died of illnesses contracted in the death camps. … [Read More]

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The Abuse of Holocaust Memory Chapter Two: Holocaust Justification and Promotion

Posted on 08/03/2017 by Manfred GerstenfeldMarch 8, 2017

Published in The Abuse of Holocaust Memory by Manfred Gerstenfed, 2009 Holocaust justification consists of “explaining” that the Jews caused their enemies’ anti-Semitism and therefore were responsible for their own later destruction. The first part of this argument was prominent … [Read More]

Posted in 2009

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