Norman Finkelstein - The Holocaust Industry (2000)

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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

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Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

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The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

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Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

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The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

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