On 7 October 1996 , the book was reviewed by Professor Brendan Simms , Fellow of Peterhouse , Cambridge , in the '' Times Higher Education Supplement '' . Simms observed that Cohen 's book was " a revisionist work in that it overturns conventional wisdom , but not in the murky or dubious sense connotated by Holocaust " revisionism " . First of all , Cohen never disputes that hundreds of thousands — but not millions — of Serbs died horribly , and often for no other reason than that they were Serbs . Second , despite the fact that Cohen is not a trained historian , his central thesis of extensive Serbian collaboration with Nazi Germany is well supported by the evidence " . Simms mentioned that Cohen " somewhat blurs " but does not suppress the fundamental qualitative difference between the Croatian and Serbian involvement in The Holocaust , in that the Croatian involvement was led by the Croatian fascist Ustaše with German assistance , but the Serb involvement was led by the Germans with support from collaborationist Serbs . Simms noted that " in places Cohen gives the Croats the benefit of the doubt " , but states that " N one of this affects Cohen 's central argument : " Serbia " and many Serbs collaborated with Nazi Germany " . In December 1997 , Cohen 's book was reviewed by Professor Charles W. Ingrao of Purdue University 's History Department in '' Nationalities Papers '' . Ingrao described the book as a " well-written , heavily footnoted narration " which " details the degree to which the Serbs of what is today Rump-Yugoslavia collaborated with the Nazis , both before and immediately after the April 1941 German invasion " . He noted that , " It is difficult to refute his contention that it was the Croats , Serbs , Bosniaks , and Jews of multiethnic Bosnia and the Krajina that provided the backbone to the anti-fascist war effort at a time when both the Četniks and Nedić regimes of Serbia were pursuing their own agenda of an ethnically pure Greater Serbia " . Ingrao observed that while scholars were already familiar with a great deal of the material included in the book , Cohen 's exposé on the Serbian-Jewish Friendship Society founded by Slobodan Milošević was new evidence about an organisation that was used to convince the international community of the common bond between Serbs and Jews . Ingrao concluded that , while Cohen overplayed the evidence at a couple of points in the book , he was impressed by both its factual accuracy and balanced judgements
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Philip J. Cohen