The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering professor Arthur Butz. The book was originally published in 1975[1] in the United Kingdom by Anthony Hancock’s Historical Review Press, [2] known as a Holocaust denial publisher. An antisemitic work,[3][4][5] it has been influential in the Holocaust denial movement.[6] Canadian academic Alan T. Davies has described it as an "antisemitic classic."[7]

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
First edition
AuthorArthur Butz
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHistorical Review Press
Publication date
1975

Butz argues that Nazi Germany did not exterminate millions of Jews using homicidal gas chambers during World War II but that the Holocaust was a propaganda hoax.[8]

The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised.[9] In 2017, the online book seller Amazon.com removed the book, along with other Holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites.[10][11]

Notes
  1. Michael Freeden; Lyman Tower Sargent; Marc Stears (15 August 2013). The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford University Press. pp. 737–. ISBN 978-0-19-166371-0.
  2. Rouben Paul Adalian; Steven L. Jacobs; Eric Markusen; Marc I. Sherman (March 2003). Encyclopedia of Genocide. ABC-CLIO. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-1-57607-446-6.
  3. Schweitzer, F; Perry, M (2002). Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN 978-0312165611. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  4. Mason, Carol (2009). Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy. Cornell University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8014-4728-0. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. Dawidowicz, Lucy (1983). The Holocaust and the Historians. Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0674405677. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. Charny, Israel A. Encyclopedia of Genocide Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, 1999, pp. 181–182.
  7. Alan Davies (1992). Davies, Alan (ed.). Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 242. ISBN 9780889202160. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  8. Geri Yonover (2000). "Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the academy : a tort remedy". In DeCoste, F. C.; Schwartz, Bernard (eds.). The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law, and Education. University of Alberta Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0888643377. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  9. Green, Jonathan (2005). Encyclopedia of Censorship. Facts on File. p. 234. ISBN 978-0816044641. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  10. Times of Israel. "Amazon UK Removes 3 Holocaust Denial Books from Sale." March 9, 2017
  11. Ziv, Stav (6 June 2017). "Under pressure, Amazon stops selling Holocaust-denial books". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 17 June 2017.


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