Survey of Anti-Revisionist Material

[Archie]

This is a work in progress, but I want to post what I have. This is intended to be an analogue to the Beginner's Guide (of revisionist material) here on the forum. This is meant to help people get up to speed on "the debate" more quickly. The OP will be updated/refined over time. Commentary and discussion welcome.

General Anti-Revisionist Books

• Deborah Lipstadt: Denying the Holocaust (1993) Perhaps the best known and most available anti-revisionist text. It suffers from a shrill, hysterical tone and favors ad hominem attacks over substantive rebuttals.
• Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman: Denying History (2000) Another well-known anti-revisionist text that is still in print. The book is divided into four parts with part three being dedicated to "arguments and refutations," which is a lot better than what you get from Lipstadt. This is likely the best (relative term) overall anti-revisionist book for a general audience.
• John C. Zimmerman: Holocaust Denial (2000) This book is out of print and used copies, when available, are overly expensive. University libraries would be your best bet to find this. More dry and dense than the Lipstadt and Shermer books. Covers multiple disparate topics. Several chapters are dedicated to demographics, several to testimonies, and several to technical topics like gas chambers and cremation.
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Assassins of Memory (1987 French/1992 English) Inexpensive used copies are readily available. A short collection of essays by a major Jewish-French scholar who specialized in ancient history. The material was originally written between 1980 and 1987 in connection with the Faurisson affair in France. More philosophical and better written than most of the books listed here, but it's dated by now and dedicates a lot of space to tangential topics.

Specialized Anti-Revisionist Books

• Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, and Adalbert Rückerl (ed): Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas (1983 German/1993 English) This text was prepared to remedy the inadequate coverage of the gas chambers in the traditional Holocaust literature. The material presented is almost entirely testimonial. Although the editors allude vaguely to revisionists in the introductory material and the book quite clearly came about as a response to revisionist pressure, no revisionists are named and no revisionist arguments are mentioned or rebutted. Very handy as a reference for orthodox gassing claims.
• Jean-Claude Pressac: Auschwitz: Technique and operation of gas chambers (1989 English translation, original French never published) Although few copies were ever printed, this was a hugely influential text that published numerous previously unknown blueprints and other documents. Pressac presented a collection of documents that he argued were highly suggestive "criminal traces" which, collectively, proved beyond reasonable doubt the reality of the gas chambers.
• Jean-Claude Pressac: Les crématoires d'Auschwitz (1993, French and German only) A follow-up. Notably, Pressac endorsed lowish death tolls in this book (631,000-710,000 for Auschwitz, notably lower than common estimates). Perhaps not coincidentally, the mainstream seemed to begin marginalizing Pressac in the mid 90s.
• Robert Jan Van Pelt: The Case For Auschwitz (2002) This book came about as a consequence of Van Pelt's involvement in the Irving-Lipstadt trial. Van Pelt's book is in some ways just a repackaging of Pressac without Pressac's quasi-revisionist baggage. But it is more readable and is available in hard copy.
• Harrison, Muehlenkamp, Myers, Romanov, Terry: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: Holocaust Denial and Operation Reinhard (2011) online This "white paper" is the magnum opus of the Holocaust Controversies blog.

Anti-Revisionist Websites

• Holocaust Controversies Blog (see also Hans's document website)
• Holocaust Denial on Trial (HDOT)
• PHDN
• Nizkor
• The Holocaust History Project (Offline) Has Richard Green's chemistry articles
• H.E.A.R.T

Other Links (Evidence Pages)

• Wikipedia, “Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust”
• Rational Wiki, “Holocaust Denial”
• Holocaust Controversies, "Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau"

Mainstream Literature

• Gerald Reitlinger: The Final Solution (1953, revised 1968) The first comprehensive history of the Holocaust in English. Estimated a lower than typical death toll in the range of 4.2-4.6M. Also more willing than most Holocaust writers to express limited skepticism.
• Raul Hilberg: The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003) A hefty and highly influential text, Hilberg was the foil for revisionists for several decades. The first generation histories of Hilberg and Reitlinger rely heavily on testimonies, affidavits, and documents from the Nuremberg trials (the IMT and NMT).
• Christopher Browning: The Origins of the Final Solution (2003) In the 1980s, Holocaust history became more professionalized as academic historians took up the cause. Browning is a notable member of this next generation of Holocaust historians. More "funtionalist" than earlier historians, i.e., he argues that the extermination policy evolved during the war.
• Yitzhak Arad: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard death camps (1987, revised 2018) This standard orthodox history of the Reinhardt camp, the neglected extermination camps that had long been mogged by Auschwitz in the history books and in popular media.
  Patrick Montague: Chelmno and the Holocaust (2012) This slender volume is standard history of Chelmno, one of the smaller and least discussed extermination camps, but which is an increasingly favored point of emphasis among online anti-revisionists.
  Henry Friedlander: The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (1995) Orthodox coverage of euthanasia with a Holocaust focus.
• David Cesarani: Final Solution (2016) A recent comprehensive history of the Holocaust.

Rebuttals (Under Construction)

• Lipstadt - Germar Rudolf, Bungled: Denying the Holocaust [online]
• Shermer - Carolus Magnus, Bungled: Denying History [online]; reviews by Crowell, Burkhead(1), and Burkhead(2)
• Zimmerman - HH#18 (Mattogno, "An Accountant Poses as a Cremation Expert")
• Vidal-Naquet - Faurisson, "Response to a Paper Historian"; review by Weber.
• Pressac - HH#42 and HH#14; articles by Crowell; JHR reviews by Weber, Butz, Faurisson, Aynat.
• Van Pelt - HH#22, review by Crowell
• Arad, Holocaust Controversies "White Paper" - HH#28 (original and current), HH #8, #9, #19, Denierbud - One Third of the Holocaust doc
• Hilberg - Butz Hoax, Graf (old HH#3), Mattogno (new HH#3), 1985 Zundel Trial
• Green - HH#2, HH#18 (Rudolf, "Green sees Red")

[pilgrimofdark]

Here are a few more.

Anti-Revisionist

Kahn, Robert A. Holocaust Denial and the Law: A Comparative Study. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Discusses legal approaches in the USA, Canada, and Europe to "Holocaust denial." Does not address Israel's law for some reason.

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Kokh, Alfred, and Pavel Polian, eds. Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz: The Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust the View from the Twenty-First Century. Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Collection of articles. The first is "The Denial of the Holocaust and its Geopolitics." The book also includes a "Selected Bibliography on Holocaust Denial." For a book published in 2012, most of the references are from the 1950s-2005.

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Behrens, Paul, Nicholas Terry, and Olaf Jensen, eds. Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Collection of articles. Only some are about the Holocaust. Contains SanityCheck's analysis of the decline and fall of revisionism. I pulled a few quotes here, but the whole thing is worth reading.

Reviewed by Panagiotis Heliotis here.

General History of Revisionism

Hayward, Joel S. A. “The Fate of the Jews in German Hands: An Historical Enquiry into the Development and Significance of Holocaust Revisionism.” University of Canterbury, 1993. https://joel-hayward.historiography-project.com/thesis/.

Older but still readable. Various articles are also on CODOH that were published in The Revisionist on the response to this thesis.

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Weber, Mark. The Zionist Terror Network: Background and Operation of the Jewish Defense League and Other Criminal Zionist Groups. Institute for Historical Review, 1993. https://ihr.org/book_online/ztn.

Also older and could use an update building on this foundation. Examines the terrorism perpetrated against Holocaust revisionists by Jewish interest groups.

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Beaumont, John. The Truth Will Set You Free: The Case for Holocaust Revisionism. Fidelity Press, 2023. https://www.fidelitypress.org/book-prod ... t-you-free.

The most recent book. Examines most of the high-profile revisionist authors and their writings/contributions, as well as some biographical material on each. A good general history. Published by E. Michael Jones's Fidelity Press.

[Archie]

Thank you for a recommendations, pilgrim. I have not read any of those. It's seems like most of the academic books on "Holocaust denial" or merely meta-discussions of it and generally do not engage with it.

I was looking through Amazon to see if I missed anything that had actual attempted rebuttals. I see a couple of books that spun off the Irving-Lipstadt trial. There's Lipstadt's book. There Lying About Hitler by Richard J. Evans. I didn't include either of these in the OP. I figured one Lipstadt book is bad enough. The Evans books might be a possibility, but Evans is not a Holocaust specialist and it seems like mostly an attack on Irving.

There is a title that comes up on Amazon, Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories by James and Lance Morcan. I got this on kindle a while ago since it was cheap, but it's just bad. Do not waste your money, even if it's on sale for a $1. It's some self-published junk. These guys know nothing about the topic and have no business trying to write this sort of book. I only made it through a couple chapters. 0/5 stars. Appallingly bad.

[pilgrimofdark]

Thank you for a recommendations, pilgrim. I have not read any of those. It's seems like most of the academic books on "Holocaust denial" or merely meta-discussions of it and generally do not engage with it.

In general, there seem to be two primary "schools of non-thought" regarding responses to revisionist works:

1. Ignore it entirely
2. Passive aggressive cry bullying demoralization psychoanalysis insults

And then a few outliers that take different approaches.

There is a title that comes up on Amazon, Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories by James and Lance Morcan. I got this on kindle a while ago since it was cheap, but it's just bad. Do not waste your money, even if it's on sale for a $1. It's some self-published junk. These guys know nothing about the topic and have no business trying to write this sort of book. I only made it through a couple chapters. 0/5 stars. Appallingly bad.

Mattogno (Magnus) wrote a response to Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories.

Bungled: “Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories”

It's probably the worst of the Bungled series, because Mattogno has so little to work with in terms of serious scholarship from the Morcans. But it's also probably the funniest and most readable of the Bungled books for the same reason.

[Archie]

Mattogno (Magnus) wrote a response to Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories.

Bungled: “Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories”

It's probably the worst of the Bungled series, because Mattogno has so little to work with in terms of serious scholarship from the Morcans. But it's also probably the funniest and most readable of the Bungled books for the same reason.

In retrospect, it was not worth Mattogno's time. Germar has explained that the "Bungled" series emerged as a strategy for Amazon. The Bungled volume would often appear alongside the original volume in searches or in the suggestions for similar titles. Needless to say, the strategy made sense at the time but has become largely obsolete in light of Amazon's censorship. I do think the Bungled series entries on Lipstadt and Shermer remain worthwhile as those seem to be the most popular anti-revisionist texts from real publishers.

[pilgrimofdark]

Here's another book: Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy, published in 2012 by De Gruyter Brill. It's $175.99 in print, or the PDF is freely downloadable on the publisher's website here.

For being published in 2012, much of it seems outdated.

In the index, Rudolf gets two mentions. Mattogno and Crowell are not mentioned at all. Faurisson gets a lot of entries in the index, as well as the IHR. Butz gets half a dozen mentions.

The JHR is listed twice, despite not being published for a decade at that point. The Revisionist and Inconvenient History are not in the index at all.

CODOH itself only gets two mentions, and Bradley Smith three.

I'm not going to read this anytime soon, but maybe someone will dedicate time to go through an article or two.

[Archie]

I will repost a couple of long lists of mainstream scholarship compiled by Nick Terry and posted elsewhere.

That list more than doubled in size. It's not a comprehensive bibliography, there are many more titles that are not included, I just add to the list because it amuses me to see how many footnotes and endnotes accumulate when one counts them up.

The assumptions are
1) many sources are repeated across the 348 books and their 449,375 footnotes and endnotes, but if they are repeated, then they're more important
2) the literature is so specialised and focused on different camps and regions that the overlap between a book on Lithuania and a book on Auschwitz is marginal, therefore despite repeated citations of some sources like the Wannsee protocol, the 448,375 footnotes and endnotes cite a huge range of evidence, running into 100s of 1000s of sources, covering all aspects of the persecution and mass murder of the Jews from 1933 to 1945.

1. Poliakov, Harvest of Hate 1951 481 notes
2. Reitlinger, The Final Solution 1953 1660 notes
3. Hilberg, Destruction (1961 1st edition) 1961 3413 notes
4. Levin, The Holocaust 1970 693 notes
5. Dawidowicz, War Against the Jews 1975 598 notes
6. Hilberg, Destruction (1985 2nd edition) 1985 4329 notes
7. Gilbert, The Holocaust 1986 2097 notes
8. Yahil, The Holocaust 1990 1784 notes
9. Friedlander, Years of Persecution 1997 1147 notes
10. Hilberg, Destruction (3rd edition) 2003 4711 notes
11. Friedlander, Years of Extermination 2006/7 2431 notes
12. Bloxham, The Final Solution 2009 557 notes
13. Longerich, Holocaust 2010 2263 notes
14. Goda, The Holocaust: Europe, the Jews and the World 2013 1440 notes
15. Cesarani, Final Solution 2016 1604 notes
16. Gerlach, The Extermination of the European Jews 2016 2404 notes
17. Rees,The Holocaust: A New History 2017 1176 notes
18. Black, Kaltenbrunner 1984 717 notes
19. Reuth, Goebbels 1990 (2013) 3157 notes
20. Breitman, The Architect of Genocide 1991 936 notes
21. Herbert, Best 2001 1426 notes
22. Barth, Goebbels und die Juden 2003 1347 notes
23. Longerich, Himmler 2008 (2012) 3509 notes
24. Husson, Heydrich et la solution finale 2008/2012 1331 notes
25. Zelle, Hitlers zweifelnde Elite 2010 1192 notes
26. Gerwarth, Hitler’s Hangman 2011 1208 notes
27. Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography 2012 (2015) 4235 notes
28. Roos, Julius Streicher und Der Stürmer 2014 2465 notes
29. Longerich, Hitler: Biographie 2015 4800 notes
30. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair 1998 539 notes
31. Wildt, Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft 2007 (2011) 858 notes
32. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 2009 411 notes
33. Trunk, Judenrat (English) 1972 2029 notes
34. Corni, Hitler’s Ghettos 2002 2162 notes
35. Michman, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust 2011 392 notes
36. Kogon et al, Nazi Mass Murder with Poison Gas 1983 551 notes
37. Schneppen, Walter Rauff 2011 411 notes
38. Morsch/Perz (eds), Neue Studien 2011 1249 notes
39. Adam, Judenpolitik im Dritten Reich 1972 1834 notes
40. Friedman, Roads to Extinction 1980 1174 notes
41. L’Allemagne nazie et le genocide juif 1985 1408 notes
42. Jäckel/Rohwehr (eds), Der Mord an den europäischen Juden 1985 321 notes
43. Benz (ed), Dimension des Völkermordes 1991 2703 notes
44. Aly/Heim, Architects of Annihilation 1991 (2002) 987 notes
45. Cesarani (ed) The Final Solution 1994 850 notes
46. Aly, Final Solution 1995 982 notes
47. Manoschek, “Serbien ist judenfrei” 1995 791 notes
48. Jansen, Der Madagaskar Plan 1997 833 notes
49. Brechtken, “Madagaskar für die Juden” 1998 1316 notes
50. Berenbaum/Peck (eds), The Holocaust and History 1998 2036 notes
51. Herbert (ed), National Socialist Extermination Policies 1998/2000 817 notes
52. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers 2000 586 notes
53. Longerich, The Unwritten Order 2001 456 notes
54. Wildt, An Uncompromising Generation 2002 2389 notes
55. Essner, Nürnberger Gesetze 2002 1749 notes
56. Bankier/Gutman (eds), Nazi Europe and the Final Solution 2003 1205 notes
57. Roseman, The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting 2003 357 notes
58. Browning, Origins of the Final Solution 2004 1853 notes
59. Brayard, La “solution finale de la question juive” 2004 2434 notes
60. Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries 2005 997 notes
61. Cüppers, Wegbereiter des Shoahs 2005 1719 notes
62. Westermann, Hitler’s Police Battalions 2005 1166 notes
63. Klemp, Nicht ermittelt 2005/2011 1497 notes
64. Welzer, Täter 2005 569 notes
65. Zimmermann (ed), On Germans and Jews under the Nazi Regime 2006 886 notes
66. Gruner, Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis 2006 1290 notes
67. Tooze, Wages of Destruction 2006 2088 notes
68. Berkowitz, The Crime of My Very Existence 2007 820 notes
69. Dean, Robbing the Jews 2008 1429 notes
70. Hoffmann, ‘Das kann man nicht erzählen’ (1005) 2008 1135 notes
71. Gigliotti, The Train Journey 2009 634 notes
72. Ingrao, Believe and Destroy 2010 (2013) 1179 notes
73. Brayard, Auschwitz, enquête sur un complot nazi 2012 1198 notes
74. Kampe/Klein (eds), Die Wannsee-Konferenz 2013 1150 notes
75. Confino, A World Without Jews 2014 418 notes
76. Longerich, Wannseekonferenz 2016 389 notes
77. Taft, From Victim to Survivor 2013 714 notes
78. Michman, Holocaust Historiography 2003 1177 notes
79. Stone (ed), The Historiography of the Holocaust 2004 1822 notes
80. Bankier/Michman (eds), Holocaust Historiography in Context 2008 1284 notes
81. Engel, Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust 2009 916 notes
82. Lawson, Debates on the Holocaust 2010 953 notes
83. Stone, Histories of the Holocaust 2010 926 notes
84. Stone (ed), The Holocaust and Historical Methodology 2013 865 notes
85. Feingold, The Politics of Rescue 1970 966 notes
86. Wasserstein, Britain and the Jews of Europe 1979 1135 notes
87. Laqueur, The Terrible Secret 1980 280 notes
88. Ross, So It Was True 1980 752 notes
89. Bauer, American Jewry and the Holocaust 1981 739 notes
90. Penkower, The Jews Were Expendable 1983 770 notes
91. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews 1984 1281 notes
92. Lookstein, Were We Our Brothers’ Keepers? 1985 623 notes
93. Lipstadt, Beyond Belief 1986 879 notes
94. Porat, The Blue and Yellow Stars of David 1986 (1990) 538 notes
95. Engel, In the Shadow of Auschwitz 1987 911 notes
96. Koblik, The Stones Cry Out 1988 306 notes
97. Favez, The Red Cross and the Holocaust 1988 (1999) 565 notes
98. Ofer, Escaping the Holocaust 1988 (1990) 868 notes
99. Kushner, The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination 1990 750 notes
100. Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution 1992 609 notes
101. Bolchover, British Jewry and the Holocaust 1993 (2003) 635 notes
102. Engel, Facing a Holocaust 1993 903 notes
103. Haas, Wenn mann gewusst hätte 1994 (1997) 593 notes
104. Feingold, Bearing Witness to the Holocaust 1995 482 notes
105. Stola, Nadzieja i zaglada 1995 1140 notes
106. Levine, From Indifference to Activism 1996 (1998) 859 notes
107. Rubinstein, The Myth of Rescue 1997 (2000) 626 notes
108. Friling, Arrows in the Dark 1998 (2005) 2047 notes
109. Breitman, Official Secrets 1998 752 notes
110. Sompolinsky, Britain and the Holocaust 1999 988 notes
111. Phayer, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust 2000 969 notes
112. London, Whitehall and the Jews 2000 925 notes
113. Penkower, Decision on Palestine Deferred 2002 620 notes
114. Zuccotti, Under His Very Windows 2002 1061 notes
115. Leff, Buried By The Times 2005 876 notes
116. Mächler, Hilfe und Ohnmacht 2005 608 notes
117. Herf, The Jewish Enemy 2006 842 notes
118. Bankier (ed), Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust 2006 789 notes
119. Longerich, ‘Davon haben wir nichts gewusst!’ 2006 1233 notes
120. Bajohr/Pohl, Massenmord und schlechtes Gewissen 2006 306 notes
121. Dörner, Die Deutschen und der Holocaust 2007 2265 notes
122. Hamerow, Why We Watched 2008 442 notes
123. Puławski, W obliczu Zagłady 2009 2386 notes
124. Caestecker/Moore (eds), Refugees from Nazi Germany 2010 995 notes
125. Cohen, Rescue the Perishing 2010 1029 notes
126. Plesch, America, Hitler and the UN 2011 383 notes
127. Hurwitz, Jews Without Power 2011 (2015) 1053 notes
128. Berkhoff, Motherland in Danger 2012 955 notes
129. Wallance, America’s Soul in the Balance 2012 482 notes
130. Gorny, The Jewish Press and the Holocaust 2012 624 notes
131. Lanicek, Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews 2013 1145 notes
132. Lanicek/Jordan (eds), Governments-in-Exile and the Jews 2013 650 notes
133. Breitman/Lichtman, FDR and the Jews 2013 868 notes
134. Medoff, FDR and the Holocaust 2013 314 notes
135. Segev, World Jewish Congress and Holocaust 2014 474 notes
136. Medoff, The Anguish of a Jewish Leader 2015 336 notes
137. Zimmerman, Polish Underground and the Jews 2015 2067 notes
138. Bloxham, Genocide on Trial 2001 989 notes
139. Douglas, The Memory of Judgment 2001 465 notes
140. Weinke, Die Verfolgung von NS-Tätern im geteilten Deutschland 2002 1499 notes
141. Weindling, Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials 2004 2189 notes
142. Hasian, Rhetorical Vectors of Memory 2006 986 notes
143. Heberer/Matthäus (eds), Atrocities on Trial 2008 886 notes
144. Weinke, Eine Gesellschaft ermittelt gegen sich selbst 2008 728 notes
145. Hebert, Hitler’s Generals on Trial 2010 870 notes
146. Segev, Simon Wiesenthal 2010 1026 notes
147. Heller, The Nuremberg Military Tribunals 2011 2400 notes
148. Eichmüller, Keine Generalamnestie 2012 1352 notes
149. Raim, Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie 2013 5422 notes
150. Tisseron, La France et le process de Nuremberg 2014 749 notes
151. Jockusch/Finder (eds), Jewish Honor Courts 2015 1107 notes
152. Klee, “Euthanasie” im NS-Staat 1983 1606 notes
153. Burleigh, Death and Deliverance 1994 972 notes
154. Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide 1995 1745 notes
155. Schmidt, Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor 2007 1955 notes
156. Aly, Die Belasteten 2013 454 notes
157. Streit, Keine Kameraden 1978/1991 1780 notes
158. Cholawsky, The Jews of Bielorussia during World War II 1982 (1998) 576 notes
159. Krausnick/Wilhelm, Truppen des Weltanschauungskrieges 1981 2107 notes
160. Heer/Naumann (eds), Vernichtungskrieg 1995 1482 notes
161. Manoschek (ed), Die Wehrmacht im Rassenkrieg 1996 412 notes
162. Ogorreck, Die Einsatzgruppen und die ‘Genesis der Endlösung’ 1996 780 notes
163. Gerlach, Kalkulierte Morde 1999 6309 notes
164. Dean, Collaboration in the Holocaust 2000 1019 notes
165. Angrick, Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord 2003 1933 notes
166. Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair 2004 1620 notes
167. Shepherd, War in the Wild East 2004 704 notes
168. Oldenburg, Ideologie und militärische Kalkül 2004 1299 notes
169. Kugler, Scherwitz 2004 908 notes
170. Kruglov, The Losses Suffered by Ukrainian Jews 2005 1508 notes
171. Lower, Nazi Empire-Building 2005 756 notes
172. Curilla, Die deutsche Ordnungspolizei und der Holocaust 2006 8270 notes
173. Angrick/Klein, The “Final Solution” in Riga 2006 1282 notes
174. Kay, Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder 2006 953 notes
175. Wrochem, von, Erich von Manstein: Vernichtungskrieg… 2006 (2009) 1795 notes
176. Huerter, Hitlers Heerfuehrer 2007 2594 notes
177. Pohl, Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht 2008 1404 notes
178. Brandon/Lower (eds), The Shoah in Ukraine 2008 1105 notes
179. Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 2008 389 notes
180. Arad, Holocaust in the Soviet Union 2009 1747 notes
181. Weiss-Wendt, Murder Without Hatred 2009 1339 notes
182. Schneppen, Ghettokommandant in Riga 2009 836 notes
183. Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl 2009 328 notes
184. Earl, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial 2009 1352 notes
185. Hartmann, Wehrmacht im Ostkrieg 2009 4871 notes
186. Brakel, Unter Rotem Stern und Hakenkreuz 2009 2020 notes
187. Quinkert, Propaganda und Terror 2009 1920 notes
188. Hasenclever, Wehrmacht und Besatzungspolitik 2010 3107 notes
189. Dieckmann, Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 2011 6712 notes
190. Reichelt, Lettland unter deutscher Besatzung 1941-1944 2011 1270 notes
191. Rentrop, Tatorte der ‘Endloesung’ 2011 969 notes
192. Rein, The Kings and the Pawns 2011 1472 notes
193. Wette, Karl Jäger 2011 586 notes
194. Christ, Die Dynamik des Tötens 2011 616 notes
195. Kilian, Wehrmacht und Besatzungsherrschaft im Nordwesten 2012 2854 notes
196. Plath, Zwischen Schonung und Menschenjagd 2012 1786 notes
197. Kay/Rutherford/Stahel (eds), Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 2012 1053 notes
198. Burds, The Holocaust in Rovno 2013 222 notes
199. Pieper, Fegelein’s Horsemen 2014 811 notes
200. Tauber, Arbeit als Hoffnung: Jüdische Ghettos in Litauen 1941-1944 2015 3020 notes
201. Kay, The Making of an SS Killer 2016 896 notes
202. Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania 2000 1378 notes
203. Solonari, Purifying the Nation 2010 1268 notes
204. Baum, Varianten des Terrors 2011 2595 notes
205. Ancel, The History of the Holocaust in Romania 2011 1909 notes
206. Steinhart, The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine 2015 933 notes
207. Dumitru, The state, antisemitism and collaboration in the Holocaust 2016 1019 notes
208. Trunk, Łódź Ghetto: A History 1962 (2006) 1321 notes
209. Krakowski, Chelmno 2001 459 notes
210. Ziołkowska, Obozy pracy przymusowej 2005 746 notes
211. Alberti, Verfolgung und Vernichtung 2006 1866 notes
212. Löw, Juden im Getto Litzmannstadt 2006 1735 notes
213. Horwitz, Ghettostadt 2008 888 notes
214. Klein, Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt 2009 1635 notes
215. Epstein, Model Nazi 2010 1907 notes
216. Montague, Chelmno and the Holocaust 2011 675 notes
217. Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw 1982 698 notes
218. Paulsson, Secret City 2002 547 notes
219. Levin, Walls Around 2003 (2004) 411 notes
220. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? 2007 1193 notes
221. Engelking/Leociak (eds), Prowincja noc 2007 1986 notes
222. Libionka/Weinbaum, Bohaterowie, hochsztaplerzy, opisywacze 2011 1512 notes
223. Klemp, Vernichtung 2013 590 notes
224. Roth/Schmidt, Judenmord in Ostrów Mazowiecka 2013 332 notes
225. Seidel, Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Polen 2006 2032 notes
226. Mlynarczyk, Judenmord in Zentralpolen 2007 1338 notes
227. Browning, Remembering Survival 2010 1449 notes
228. Crowe, Oskar Schindler 2004 1836 notes
229. Grabowski, Hunt for the Jews 2011 (2013) 505 notes
230. Hembera, Die Shoah im Distrikt Krakau (Tarnow) 2016 1548 notes
231. Browning, Ordinary Men 1992 511 notes
232. Pohl, Von der “Judenpolitik” zum Judenmord 1993 863 notes
233. Musial, Deutsche Zivilverwaltung und Judenverfolgung 1999 1384 notes
234. Silberklang, Gates of Tears 2013 748 notes
235. Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1996 2153 notes
236. Sandkühler, “Endlösung” in Galizien 1996 1050 notes
237. Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany 2002 371 notes
238. Bartov, Erased 2007 190 notes
239. Struve, Deutsche Herrschaft 2015
240. Bender, The Jews of Bialystok 1997 (2008) 1018 notes
241. Gross, Neighbors 2000 (2001) 169 notes
242. Zbikowski, U genezy Jedwabnego 2006 940 notes
243. Schwindt, Majdanek 2005 1475 notes
244. Mailander, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence 2009 (2015) 1408 notes
245. Lenarcyzk/Libionka (eds), Erntefest 2009 1518 notes
246. Rossino, Hitler Strikes Poland 2003 1100 notes
247. Böhler, Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg 2006 1110 notes
248. Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939 2009 277 notes
249. Majer, “Non-Germans” Under the Third Reich 1981 (2013) 3935 notes
250. Krakowski, The War of the Doomed 1984 565 notes
251. Arad, Belzec Sobibor Treblinka 1987 688 notes
252. Tomaszewski/Werbowski, Code Name: Zegota 1994 (2010) 74 notes
253. Schelvis, Sobibor 1998/2003 662 notes
254. Housden, Hans Frank and Lebensraum 2003 1411 notes
255. Poprzeczny, Hitler’s Man in the East: Odilo Globocnik 2004 463 notes
256. Musial (ed), Aktion Reinhard 2004 1296 notes
257. Jockheck, Propaganda im Generalgouvernement 2006 1116 notes
258. Schenk, Hans Frank 2006 1442 notes
259. Loose, Kredite für NS-Verbrechen 2007 2023 notes
260. Rutherford, Prelude to the Final Solution 2007 744 notes
261. Rieger, Creator of Nazi Death Camps 2007 551 notes
262. Roth, Herrenmenschen 2009 1233 notes
263. Kuwalek, Das Vernichtungslager Belzec 2011/2013 713 notes
264. Curilla, Der Judenmord in Polen 2011 8405 notes
265. Gross, Golden Harvest 2011 (2012) 180 notes
266. Żbikowski, Karski 2011 375 notes
267. Medykowski, W cieniu gigantow 2012 686 notes
268. Berger, Experten der Vernichtung 2013 1698 notes
269. Rashke, Useful Enemies 2013 542 notes
270. Bryant, Eyewitness to Genocide 2014 667 notes
271. Benz, Handlager der SS 2015 1185 notes
272. Browning, The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office 1978 811 notes
273. Adler, The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution 1985 (1987) 924 notes
274. Döscher, Das Auswärtige Amt im Dritten Reich 1987 1085 notes
275. Steinberg, All or Nothing 1990 799 notes
276. Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece 1993 807 notes
277. Safrian, Eichmann’s Men 1993 (2010) 1109 notes
278. Moore, Victims and Survivors 1997 914 notes
279. Poznanski, Jews in France during World War II 1997 (2001) 2446 notes
280. Lozowick, Hitler’s Bureaucrats 2000 (2002) 787 notes
281. Rabinovici, Eichmann’s Jews 2000 (2011) 735 notes
282. Yablonka, The State of Israel vs Adolf Eichmann 2001 (2004) 843 notes
283. Lafitte, Un engrenage fatal 2003 913 notes
284. Cesarani, Eichmann 2004 1024 notes
285. Brunner, Die Frankreich-Komplex 2004 1257 notes
286. Meyer, Täter im Verhör 2005 1,599 notes
287. Rothkirchen, The Jews of Bohemia & Moravia 2005 1440 notes
288. Weitkamp, Braune Diplomaten 2008 2112 notes
289. Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jewry 2009 760 notes
290. Moore, Survivors 2010 1508 notes
291. Meyer, Das Wissen um Auschwitz 2010 556 notes
292. Seibel, Persecution and Rescue 2010 (2016) 944 notes
293. Meyer, A Fatal Balancing Act 2011 (2013) 1513 notes
294. Stangneth, Eichmann Before Jerusalem 2011 (2014) 1406 notes
295. Fulbrook, A Small Town Near Auschwitz 2012 873 notes
296. Wieviorka/Lafitte, A l’intérieur du camp de Drancy 2012 490 notes
297. Ritz, Schreibtischtäter vor Gericht 2012 743 notes
298. Meinen, Die Shoah in Belgien 2012 552 notes
299. Meinen/Meyer, Verfolgt von Land zu Land 2013 660 notes
300. Gruner, Die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat 2016 1823 notes
301. Ben-Tov, Facing the Holocaust in Budapest 1988 690 notes
302. Kranzler, The Man Who Stopped The Trains to Auschwitz 2000 864 notes
303. Gerlach/Aly, Das letzte Kapitel 2002 1870 notes
304. Cole, Holocaust City 2003 788 notes
305. Levine, Raul Wallenberg in Budapest 2010 951 notes
306. Bogdanor, Kasztner’s Crime 2016 790 notes
307. Pressac, Die Krematorien von Auschwitz 1994 318 notes
308. Gutman/Berenbaum (eds), Anatomy of the Auschwitz 1994 1160 notes
309. Dlugoborski/Piper (eds), Auschwitz 1940-1945, 5 vols 1995/2000 3286 notes
310. Dwork/Pelt, Auschwitz 1996 679 notes
311. Wagner, IG Auschwitz 2000 1308 notes
312. Steinbacher, ‘Musterstadt’ Auschwitz 2000 1632 notes
313. Pelt, van, The Case for Auschwitz 2002 931 notes
314. Friedler/Siebert/Kilian, Zeugen aus der Todeszone 2002 895 notes
315. Zürcher, Wir machten die schwarzen Arbeit des Holocaust 2004 839 notes
316. Pendas, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 2006 1227 notes
317. Dirks, “Die Verbrechen der anderen” 2006 1275 notes
318. Knopp, Wir lebten mitten im Tod 2009 380 notes
319. Schüle, Industrie und Holocaust 2010 1301 notes
320. Lang, Die Frauen von Block 10 2011 713 notes
321. Stengel, Hermann Langbein 2012 2219 notes
322. Fleming, Auschwitz, The Allies and Censorship 2014 847 notes
323. Greif/Levin, Aufstand in Auschwitz 2015 446 notes
324. Dobosiewicz, Vernichtungslager Gusen 1977 (2007) 347 notes
325. Pingel, Häftlinge unter SS-Herrschaft 1978 578 notes
326. Orth, Das System der nationalsozialistischen KL 1999 1234 notes
327. Wenck, Zwischen Menschenhandel und “Endlösung” 2000 1461 notes
328. Schulte, Zwangsarbeit und Vernichtung 2001 1778 notes
329. Allen, The Business of Genocide 2002 726 notes
330. Strebel, Das KZ Ravensbrück 2003 2625 notes
331. Kaienburg, Die Wirtschaft der SS 2003 3688 notes
332. Steegman, Natzweiler 2005 (2010) 1985 notes
333. Kaienburg, Der Militär- und Wirtschaftskomplex Oranienburg 2006 1208 notes
334. Gutternan, A Narrow Bridge to Life 2008 725 notes
335. Buggeln, Arbeit & Gewalt (translated as Slave Labor) 2009 1976 notes
336. Caplan/Wachsmann (eds), Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany 2010 675 notes
337. Blatman, The Death Marches 2011 1836 notes
338. Weigelt, Judenmord im Reichsgebiet 2011 2388 notes
339. Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial 2012 616 notes
340. Adam, Die Arbeiterfrage soll mot Hilfe von KZ-Häftlingen gelöst w.. 2013 1890 notes
341. Rudorff, Frauen in den Aussenlagern des KL Gross-Rosen 2014 1640 notes
342. Scheck, Zwangsarbeit und Massensterben 2014 942 notes
343. Weindling, Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Expts 2015 1042 notes
344. Pauer-Studer/Velleman, Konrad Morgen 2015 510 notes
345. Wachsmann, KL 2015 3423 notes
346. Wünschmann, Before Auschwitz 2015 1069 notes
347. Stone, The Liberation of the Camps 2015 739 notes
348. Hördler, Ordnung und Inferno 2015 2086 notes
349. Dillon, Dachau and the SS 2015 1439 notes

(349 listed, 348 books and collections counted for notes; 215 in English) - 449,375 notes

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[Archie]

And here's a different list (from Terry) focused on more recent books.

thematic divisions are easier, and also allow memory-themes to be put alongside them in due course
(specific studies eg on KZ memory really belong under KZs, methinks)

General
1. USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos vols I-III
2. Christian Gerlach, The Extermination of the European Jews (2016)
3. Bettina Stangneth, Eichmann before Jerusalem (2011, translated 2014)
4. Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution (2003)
5. David Cesarani, Final Solution (2016)
6. Evgeny Finkel, Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (2017)
7. Michael Wildt, An Uncompromising Generation
8. Saul Friedlander, The Years of Extermination (2006/2007) - nominated by Jeff86...
9. Peter Longerich, Holocaust (2010)
10. Goetz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries
11. Edward Westermann, Hitler's Police Battalions - nominated by Jeff86...
12. Wolf Gruner, Jewish Forced Labor...
13. Christian Ingrao, Believe and Destroy
14. David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann
15. Peter Longerich, Goebbels
16. Jeffrey Herf, The 'Jewish Enemy'
17. Donald Bloxham, The Final Solution: A Genocide (2009)
18. Peter Longerich, Himmler
19. Mark Roseman, The Villa, the Lake, The Meeting (2003)
20. Christopher Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000)
21. Christian Ingrao, The Promise of the Nazi East (2018)
22. Dan Michman, The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust (2011)
23. Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
24. Mark Levene, Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953 (Crisis of Genocide)
25. Robert Gerwarth, Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
26. Peter Longerich, Hitler
27. Peter Longerich, The Unwritten Order
28. Christopher Browning, Collected Memories (2003)
29. Nicholas Stargardt, Witnesses of War (2006)
30. Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy
31. Michael Mann, Fascists
32. Steven P Remy, The Malmedy Massacre
33. Simone Gigliotti, The Train Journey (2009)
34. Martin Dean, Robbing the Jews
35. Hans-Christian Jasch, Christoph Kreutzmüller (eds), The participants: the men of the Wannsee Conference (2017)

Auschwitz/KZs
1. Auschwitz 1940-1945, 5 volumes (2000; a French edition was published later with further additions)
2. Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL (2015)
3. Robert Van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz (2002) - also nominated by Sergey
4. Daniel Blatman, The Death Marches
5. Georges Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (2003 fr, 2008 Engl)
6. Devin Pendas, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
7. Rebecca Wittmann, Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial (2005)
8. Michael Fleming, Auschwitz, the Allies, Censorship...
9. Marc Buggeln, Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps (German edition much larger)
10. Kim Wuenschmann, Before Auschwitz
11. Sarah Helm, If This is a Woman (2016)
12. Tomasz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial (2012)
13. H. Pauer-Studer and J. Velleman, Konrad Morgen [agree top 100 at least]
14. Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide (2002)
15. Bella Gutterman, A Narrow Bridge to Life (2008)
16. Annegret Schuele, Between Persecution and Participation (2018)
17. Jane Caplan and Nikolaus Wachsmann (ed), Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories (2010)
18. Piotr Setkiewicz, The Histories of IG Farben Work Camps
19. Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps (2015)
20. Tuvia Friling, A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz (2014)

Poland
1. Samuel Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto (2007)
2. Jan Gross, Golden Harvest (2012 in translation)
3. Omer Bartov, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018)
4. Patrick Montague, Chelmno and the Holocaust (2011)
5. Jan Gross, Neighbors (2000) - disnominated by Sergey
6. Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw Ghetto
7. David Silberklang, Gates of Tears (re Lublin district)
8. Elissa Mailander, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence
9. Michael Bryant, Eyewitness to Genocide
10. Lawrence Douglas, The Right Wrong Man re Demjanjuk
11. Catherine Epstein, Model Nazi (bio of Greiser)
12. Christopher Browning, Remembering Survival
13. Witold Medykowski, Macht arbeit frei? (Jewish forced labour in the GG)
14. Gunnar Paulsson, Secret City (2002)
15. Jan Grabowski, Hunt for the Jews
16. Joshua Zimmerman, The Polish Underground and the Jews 1939-1945 (2015)
17. Gabriel Finder and Alexander Prusin, Justice behind the Iron Curtain (2018)
18. Mary Fulbrook, A Small Town Near Auschwitz (2012)
19. Yehuda Bauer, The death of the shtetl (2011)
20. Gordon Horwitz, Ghettostadt (2008)
21. David Crowe, Oskar Schindler (2007)
22. Kopstein/Wittenberg, Intimate Violence (2018)
23. Tomasz Kranz, Extermination of Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp
24. Elazar Barken et al eds, Shared History- Divided Memory: Jews and Others in Soviet Occupied Poland, 1939-1941
25. Sara Bender, In Enemy Land (2018)
26. Anna Bikont, The Crime and the Silence (2015)
27. Katarzyna Person, Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (2014)
28. Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany
29. Philip Rutherford, Prelude to the Final Solution

USSR
1. Karel Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair (2004) - also nominated by Sergey
2. Martin Dean, Collaboration in the Holocaust (2000)
3. Angrick/Klein, The Final Solution in Riga
4. Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower (eds), The Shoah in Ukraine
5. Aron Shneyer, Pariahs among Pariahs
6. Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (2009)
7. Jean Ancel, The Holocaust in Romania
8. Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania
9. Diana Dumitru, The state, antisemitism, and collaboration in the Holocaust (2016)
10. Eric Steinhart, The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine (2015)
11. Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Building in Ukraine and the Holocaust (2005)
12. Kiril Feferman, The Holocaust in Crimea and North Caucasus (2016)
13. Hilary Earl, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History
14. Alex Kay, The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990 (2016)
15. Edele/Fitzpatrick/Grossman (eds), Shelter from the Holocaust (2017)
16. Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto (2008)
17. Alex Kay (ed), Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941
18. Alex Kay, Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
19. Valerie Hebert, Hitler's Generals on Trial (2010)
20. Jeffrey Burds, The Holocaust in Rovno
21. Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder without Hatred (2009)
22. Waitman Beorn, Marching into Darkness
23. Leonid Rein, The Kings and the Pawns

Greater Germany
1. Alon Confino, A World Without Jews
2. Beate Meyer, A Fatal Balancing Act
3. Michael Wildt, Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion
4. Alan Steinweis, Kristallnacht
5. Doron Rabinovici, Eichmann's Jews (German original 2000, translation 2012)
6. Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore (eds), Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal States (2010)
7. Jan Lanicek, Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews (2013)
8. Mark Roseman, A Past in Hiding
9. Johann Chapoutot, The Law of Blood
10. Nicholas Stargardt, The German War (2015)
11. Paul Bartrop, The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (2018)
12. Wolf Gruner and Jörg Osterloh (eds), The greater German Reich and the Jews (2015)
13. Wolf Gruner, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (2019)
14. Livia Rothkirchen, The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia (2012)
15. James Whitman, Hitler's American Model (2017)

Rest of Europe
1. Steven Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jews 1940-1945 (2009)
2. Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians (2016)
3. Tim Cole, Holocaust City (2003)
4. Paul Levine, Raul Wallenberg in Budapest: myth, history and Holocaust, 1944-1945 (2010)
5. Gabor Kadar, Self-Financing Genocide (2004)
6. Jacques Semelin, The survival of the Jews in France, 1940-1944 (2019, French edition longer)
7. Bob Moore, Survivors (2010)
8. Wolfgang Seibel, Persecution and Rescue (2016)
9. Rory Yeomans, Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945
10. Ivo Goldstein & Slavko Goldstein, The Holocaust in Croatia
11. Slavko Goldstein, 1941: The Year that Kept Returning
12. Levis Sullam, The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
13. Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
14. Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration

Responses
1. Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, FDR and the Jews (2013)
2. Laurel Leff, Buried by the Times (2005)
3. Yosef Gorny, The Jewish Press and the Holocaust (2012)
4. Michael Phayer, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust (2000)
5. Tuvia Friling, Arrows in the Dark (2005)
6. Pontus Rudberg, Swedish Jews and the Holocaust (2017)
7. Pamela Shatzkes, Holocaust and Rescue (2002)
8. David Bankier (ed), Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust (2006)

Trials, Testimonies, Sources
1. Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment
2. Deborah Lipstadt, The Eichmann Trial - nominated by Jeff86...
3. Donald Bloxham, Genocide on Trial
4. Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record!
5. Katharina von Kellenbach, The Mark of Cain (2013)
6. Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness
7. Alexandra Garbarini, Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust (2006)
8. Alan Rosen, The Wonder of their Voices (2011)
9. Kevin Jon Heller, The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law
10. Michael Bazyler, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
11. Kim Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (2012)
12. Mary Fulbrook, Reckonings (2018)
13. Patricia Heberer and Juergen Matthaeus (eds), Atrocities on Trial (2008)
14. James J. Weingartner, Americans, Germans and war crimes justice (2011)

This adds up to 158 books and collections, which still doesn't exhaust what was published in English. The 'biases' won't be clear until foreign language works are compared with the above categorisations, e.g. there are many, many more studies of KZs in German than were published in English in this time-frame.

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[Hektor]

I will repost a couple of long lists of mainstream scholarship compiled by Nick Terry and posted elsewhere.

That list more than doubled in size. It's not a comprehensive bibliography, there are many more titles that are not included, I just add to the list because it amuses me to see how many footnotes and endnotes accumulate when one counts them up.

The assumptions are
1) many sources are repeated across the 348 books and their 449,375 footnotes and endnotes, but if they are repeated, then they're more important
2) the literature is so specialised and focused on different camps and regions that the overlap between a book on Lithuania and a book on Auschwitz is marginal, therefore despite repeated citations of some sources like the Wannsee protocol, the 448,375 footnotes and endnotes cite a huge range of evidence, running into 100s of 1000s of sources, covering all aspects of the persecution and mass murder of the Jews from 1933 to 1945.

1. Poliakov, Harvest of Hate 1951 481 notes
2. Reitlinger, The Final Solution 1953 1660 notes
3. Hilberg, Destruction (1961 1st edition) 1961 3413 notes
4. Levin, The Holocaust 1970 693 notes....
5. Stone, The Liberation of the Camps 2015 739 notes
6. Hördler, Ordnung und Inferno 2015 2086 notes
7. Dillon, Dachau and the SS 2015 1439 notes

(349 listed, 348 books and collections counted for notes; 215 in English) - 449,375 notes

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While the authors push a narrative and would probably not very fond of Holocaust Revisionism, I wouldn't say those texts are Anti-Revisionist as such. They generally seem to consist of Martyrologies, the passion of the Jews, if you want. On face value those are people sharing their war-time experiences or reporting to this.... Or it simply reinterprets real Axis or NS-policies towards a Holocaust Narrative construction the cartoon version of history of WW2 we are used to today.

Now the list would be interesting to do surveys on, especially to see when the Holocaust Narrative really took of. It seems to have struggled in the 1950s a bit and only took off intensively in the 1970... Conveniently decades after the supposed events.

Real Anti-Revisionist literature is more something since the 1980s rather the 1990s. And this was after the Zundel Trials as well as after the "Historikerstreit" were Ernst Nolte was targeted, because he tried to do some sort of Revisionism lite.


Anti-Revisionist materials tend to play the person, not the ball. The more highbrow examples would twist logic a bit, albeit still misrepresenting Revisionist arguments. Anti-Revisionists polemics would be totally unnecessary, if they actually could sufficiently prove their case. But it's usually photos that show the result of Allied genocidal warfare against Germany, confessions and other testimony... They will also cite court judgements, which is actually an appeal to authority as is the "Consensus of the Historians"... This is all typical for an opinion of political importance that can't really be defended rationally and empirically.

[pilgrimofdark]

A list of ~500 books isn't that helpful without a guide. Quantity of footnotes isn't going to persuade a new reader to pick up any of them.

Ideas:

• An annotated bibliography with short summaries of each (this could even come from the publisher if no one has read the actual book yet).
• A Book Reviews section elsewhere on the forum, where any Holocaust/WW2 book can be reviewed and discussed.
• Submit longer review to IH and link discussion here. It's likely some of the books have been reviewed in JHR/TR/IH over the years, too.

A lot of the books have interest beyond "the Holocaust," so reviews from other journals could be discussed.

I own or have read a number on both of those long lists. Some are excellent but a bit tangential, some are worth skipping, some are just collections of articles by numerous authors.

When books are in other languages, as long as they're available in epub format, they can easily be translated into English. I did that with "Gerlach, Kalkulierte Morde" and "Berger, Experten der Vernichtung."

[HansHill]

[*]A Book Reviews section elsewhere on the forum, where any Holocaust/WW2 book can be reviewed and discussed.

+1 I have actually made a similar point in the past. It could be expanded to Media Reviews rather than just books to include for example documentaries, summit presentations, debates etc

[pilgrimofdark]

One more I stumbled across.

From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials: Challenging the Media, Law and the Academy. Edited by Debra Kaufman, Gerald Herman, James Ross, David Phillips. Forward by Deborah Lipstadt. First published in 2007.

It's a collection of ten articles, including a "Personal Reflection on the Irving Trial" by Robert Jan van Pelt.

Henry L. Feingold writes "The Surprising Historic Roots of Holocaust Denial." He admits right away that, "From the historical perspective, the denial of the Holocaust finds its roots in Allied information strategy during the Second World War." It's more even-handed than expected, even linking the "speedy recognition of Israel" by the US and USSR to the Holocaust. However, it eventually gets around to calling Irving an anti-semite and descends into the usual insults. He claims the Eichmann and Irving trials are both "acts of redemption" from the Jewish perspective of history.

Faurisson is only discussed on a few pages, despite spending much of his life involved in "Holocaust denial trials." The IHR gets two mentions. CODOH, Bradley Smith, Rudolf, Mattogno, Zundel, and Butz are not mentioned at all.

Apparently, "Holocaust denial trials" mostly refers to Deborah Lipstadt as a victim of David Irving.

Lipstadt's Foreword is a concise summary of her anti-revisionist approach:

In the past I had been approached by people who wanted to bring legal action against Holocaust deniers, but I always cautioned them not to. The First Amendment practically guaranteed their failure. Even in countries where Holocaust denial could be outlawed, I opposed such efforts. These laws render denial ‘forbidden fruit’, making it more — not less — alluring. Above all, however, I did not believe that courtrooms are the proper venue for historical inquiry.
[...]
...our objective was to prove, not precisely what happened, but that I was correct when I said this man [David Irving] was a denier and a liar. We did so by putting his claims on trial. In short, we turned him into the defendant.

The HC Blog white paper/blog posts are still way ahead in use of cartoonish insults and passive aggression.

If, agreeing with Gerlach, "the Holocaust" has religious connotations, then some of the anti-revisionist approach can be interpreted through a paradigm of an inversion of Christian (specifically Catholic) doctrines and practices.