The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial Book

"The Irving case has done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations." --The Daily Telegraph In British historian David Irving's libel suit against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, 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. The defense engaged Robert Jan van Pelt to prepare an expert report presenting the 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 submitted an exhaustive forensic report, which helped win the day for the defense. Van Pelt's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Holocaust and for those who seek to combat Holocaust denial.Read More