Pelt, R. J. van (Robert Jan), 1955-

The case for Auschwitz : evidence from the Irving trial / Robert Jan van Pelt.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002.

xv, 570 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

"From January to April 2000, a high-profile libel case brought by the British historian David Irving against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, charging that Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust (1993) falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier, was tried in the British High Court. The question of 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 at Auschwitz.
In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to prepare for the court an expert report presenting the evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz was an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, primarily in gas chambers." "Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt submitted an exhaustive forensic report, which he successfully defended in cross-examination in court. In his verdict in favor of the defendants, Justice Charles Gray concluded that "no objective, fair-minded historian would have serious cause to doubt that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz and that they were operated on a substantial scale to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews.""
"The Case for Auschwitz analyzes why Auschwitz has become central to Holocaust denial and how it became a focus in the Irving-Lipstadt trial. It presents the compelling evidence contained in the original expert report and details the way this evidence played out at the trial. Unique in its comprehensive assessment of the historical evidence for Auschwitz and devastating in its demolition of the arguments of Holocaust deniers against Auschwitz, 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."--Jacket.

0253340160 (alk. paper)
9780253340160 (alk. paper)

Irving, David John Cawdell, 1938- Trials, litigation, etc.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. Trials, litigation, etc.
Irving, David John Cawdell, 1938-
Lipstadt, Deborah E.
Irving, David John Cawdell 1938-
Lipstadt, Deborah E. 1947-
Irving, David John Cawdell - procès Lipstadt, Deborah E.
Irving, David John Cawdell.
Penguin (Firm) Trials, litigation, etc.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Penguin (Firm)
Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
Penguin Books
Trials (Libel) England London.
Holocaust denial literature Great Britain.
Procès (Diffamation) Angleterre Londres.
Négationnisme Documentation Grande-Bretagne.
Holocaust denial literature.
Trials (Libel)
Auschwitz-Lüge
Gaskammer
Gutachten
Prozess
Verleumdung
Trials (Libel) Great Britain 20th century.
Holocaust denial Great Britain.
Holocaust.
Genocide.
World War II.
Jews.
Concentration camps.
camp de concentration génocide Juif révisionnisme Auschwitz (Pologne)
England London.
Great Britain.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Mazal Holocaust Collection.

Location: Library main 291752
Call No.: KD379.5.I78 P4 2002
Status: Available