Holocaust Handbooks (Paperback)

Description

This ambitious, growing series addresses various topics of the infamous “Holocaust” of the WWII era. Most of them are based on decades of archival research in archives all over the world. They are heavily footnoted and referenced. In contrast to most other works on this issue, the tomes of this series approach its topic with the necessary profound academic scrutiny and a critical attitude that is befitting of a topic as complex, sprawling, and nuanced as World War 2. Any Holocaust researcher ignoring this series will remain oblivious to the most important research results in the field.

These books aim to be compelling and convincing to the common reader while maintaining a standard of rigid scholarship that will satisfy even the most hardened academic, who retains any measure of willingness whatsoever to entertain and consider contrary viewpoints. They are very successful with this approach, as ever since its inception, this prestigious series has gained the attention of many Western historians and several opinion leaders worldwide.

Since the end of World War 2, great amounts of effort and money have been expended to ensure that only one narrative about World War 2 is allowed to see the light of day, when in fact that very same accepted narrative omits and distorts vast quantities of information . . . obfuscating and obscuring when not outright concealing the many aspects of the history of WW2 that do not align with the version of the history of this conflict that was presented to the world by the victors. The result of this has been the development of a monstrous dynamic in which a veritable litany of crimes against humanity has been covered up and whitewashed and their perpetrators shielded from consequence while an entire ethnic group has been subjected to levels of degradation, dehumanization, and demonization that rivals if not surpasses much of what the Nazi regime of the Third Reich is alleged to have subjected people to. This series exists to set the record straight and present all of the facts in as unbiased and scholarly a way as possible. Its goal is not to validate any particular faction or person, but merely to present history in the way it should be: a way that objectively shows what happened when, who was involved, and the sequence of events that proceeded.

The endgame of the Holocaust Handbooks series is to systematically tip the academic scale so that academia will start doing its duty: to demand and pursue open, unfettered, public scrutiny of this most influential topic of all Western societies—because as long as academics don’t do this, the media and politicians certainly won’t do it either. The world must know the truth about WW2 so that we can learn the lessons that the true record of history has to teach us—from its tragedies as well as its triumphs. So that true justice can be done for all of the people throughout the world who are still affected by these events; And so that a candid world can benefit from a genuine inquiry unfettered by political correctness and free from the lingering distortions of wartime propaganda that to this very day inform a large quantity of what has been presented to the public as common knowledge. True justice, accountability, and reconciliation will continue to elude us as a culture and civilization until the world knows the facts and can seek them out and openly discuss and debate them without fear of censorship and persecution.

See also the website dedicated to this series: http://holocausthandbooks.com.