Auschwitz: The History and Characteristics of the Concentration and Extermination Camp

Langbein, Hermann

doi:10.1515/9783110968729.1115

The Victims of the Holocaust, Volume 2 1989

DOI: 10.1515/9783110968729.1115

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Auschwitz: The History and Characteristics of the Concentration and Extermination Camp

Hermann Langbein¹

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Holocaust Distortion and Denial

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Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

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Holocaust Distortion Holocaust Distortion differs from Denial in that it recognises the Holocaust's genocidal character in principle (or at least seeks to give that impression). However, it relativises the historical facts, which is tantamount to a partial denial. The forms of relativisation can be assigned to two basic fields according to their strategies and purposes. The strategies of the first field pursue the purposes of rejecting the guilt and whitewashing antisemitism or Nazism and serve as a basis for antisemitic attacks on Jews. In the strategies of the second field, the Holocaust is not the focus, but is only used to strengthen the effect of another message with its symbolic power. Holocaust Denial Denial of the Holocaust goes beyond distortion: it rejects the fact that the Holocaust took place at all. In doing so, the Holocaust is completely negated through the denial of its very occurrence or of its crucial characteristics. The latter can be achieved either by denying essential aspects, such as mass shootings and the existence of extermination camps or gas chambers, or by reinterpreting the victims of the genocide as war victims, or by claiming that they were missing survivors whose whereabouts were merely untraceable due to the turmoil of war.

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