Redigerer Ansvar for holocaust (avsnitt)

==Holocaustbenektelse==
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Holocaustbenektere hevder at tyske myndigheter under Hitler ikke drev noen systematisk politikk for eller hadde som mål å utrydde jødene. Holocaustbenektelse har ofte preg av [[konspirasjonsteori]] og springer ofte ut av høyreradikale eller nynazistiske miljøer.<ref>{{Kilde artikkel|tittel=Ethics, Historical Relativism and Holocaust Denial|publikasjon=Rethinking History|doi=10.1080/13642529809408972|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529809408972|dato=1998-09-01|fornavn=Patrick|etternavn=Finney|serie=3|bind=2|sider=359–369|issn=1364-2529|besøksdato=2019-11-24}}</ref><ref>{{Kilde artikkel|tittel=Rhetoric of the conspiracy theory: Arguments in national front propaganda|publikasjon=Patterns of Prejudice|doi=10.1080/0031322X.1998.9969951|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.1998.9969951|dato=1988-06-01|fornavn=Michael|etternavn=Billig|serie=2|bind=22|sider=23–34|issn=0031-322X|besøksdato=2019-11-24}}</ref> [[David Irving]], en ledende holocaustbenekter, har utnyttet mangelen på skriftlige bevis for overordnet plan og ordre til å bagatellisere Hitlers rolle.<ref name="NYT1998" /> Irving hevder på grunnlag av egen forskning at Hitler fikk vite om massemord på jødene tidligst i 1943. Blant andre har Gerald Fleming og [[Gitta Sereny]] tilbakevist Irvings konklusjoner.<ref>{{Kilde avis|tittel=Gitta Sereny obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/19/gitta-sereny|avis=The Guardian|dato=2012-06-19|besøksdato=2019-10-26|issn=0261-3077|språk=en-GB|fornavn=Isabel|etternavn=Hilton|side=|sitat=Speer was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to long years in Spandau prison. Released in 1966, he had published two books when he contacted Gitta in 1977 to support an article she had written, challenging the rightwing historian David Irving's contention that Hitler was ignorant of the Nazi extermination of the Jews.}}</ref><ref  name="Independent1996">{{Kilde www|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/irving-and-sereny-go-to-war-1335631.html|tittel=Irving and Sereny go to war|besøksdato=2019-04-28|forfattere=|dato=1996-06-06|språk=en|verk=The Independent|forlag=|sitat=David Irving does not like Gitta Sereny. He has not liked her since 1977, when she went through his book Hitler's War with forensic care and pronounced him wrong about Hitler's alleged lengthy ignorance of the Nazi's genocidal policies. "She was a shrivelled little prune then. And she is a shrivelled little prune now," he said this week, shortly after it emerged he has served a libel writ on her.}}</ref><ref name="Guardian2002">{{Kilde avis|tittel=Memories are made of this|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/24/historybooks.features|avis=The Observer|dato=2002-02-24|besøksdato=2019-04-28|issn=0029-7712|språk=en-GB|fornavn=Tim|etternavn=Adams|side=|sitat=In advance of the Penguin/Lipstadt case coming to court, The Observer sought, with Sereny, to fight Irving's claims that the article had libelled him. To date, in preparing an initial defence for this case, which covers much of the same ground as the Penguin trial - how Irving has deliberately falsified historical record - this newspaper has had to spend £800,000 in legal fees. To apply to have the case struck off, because the allegations have already been heard and proven, would, with the prospect of a counter appeal by Irving, cost a further £50,000. In theory, The Observer might, if this application was successful, claim costs against Irving, (who, by defending himself, incurs none), but it would have to stand in line with Penguin and others, with little hope of receiving a penny.}}</ref>
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