Should we tolerate Holocaust Denial?

Res Publica

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-28

  McKinnon, Catriona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic freedom; Freedom of expression; Harm and offence; Holocaust denial; Liberalism; Toleration

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248398530     PISSN: 13564765     EISSN: 15728692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11158-006-9013-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. I shall assume that readers have knowledge of the main events constitutive of World War II and the details of the Holocaust. A good basic introduction is Haim Bresheeth, Stuart Hood and Litza Jansz, The Holocaust for Beginners, (Cambridge: Icon Books Ltd., 2000).
2. Michael Shermer and Alex Grobmnan, Denying History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), p. 100, emphasis in original. I use this definition of the Holocaust because deniers attentions are overwhelmingly devoted to this aspect of the Nazi atrocities. This definition does not imply that we should ignore the other victims of the Nazis, such as Catholics, Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Prisoners of War, mentally and physically handicapped people, and the Sinti and Roma.
3. See Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993), pp. 21-29.
4. See also Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Assassins of Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. 18-19.