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Title: Useful for Holocaust Denial studies
Review: We recently used this volume at my school as an example of methods of Holocaust denial.The course was quite interesting, ther eare many parallels between psudo-academic denial of the Holocaust against the Jews and the genocide against the Armenains.Weems uses the same technicques as those that deny Auschwitz was used as a death camp. He discounts the records from Turkish archives which admit the genocide, and comes up with rather convoluted theories.All and all a good example of perverse and amoral denial of historic facts.Motive is pretty clear, Weems family is Turkish, a fact not acknowledge in the book.Our professor felt that although his book has had no impact outside of turkey what it does is pollute the discourse in Turkey when the Genoicide is being discussed. More and more Turkish historians now admit the state committed a genocide against the Armenians, even though many have been arrested for just bringing the subject up!
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