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Article: The slippery slope of anti-Semitism.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2000
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Now it's official. Auschwitz was not built by the Poles as a "tourist attraction" after World War II, after all. Jews were gassed there, and Hitler knew about the Final Solution before 1943.
The grisly history of the Holocaust is familiar to most of us, but not to everybody. David Irving, the British "historian," argues that the Holocaust is overrated as tragedy and he embellishes it with perversity, such as the notion that Auschwitz was a sort of Disney World of death for ghoulish tourists. He thought enough of his crackpot ideas to defend them in court. A judge found them indefensible.
The judge found that Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish ...