Table of Contents

Canaries in the mine - Holocaust denial and the limited power of reason; the antecedents - history, conspiracy, and fantasy; in the shadow of World War 2 - denial's first steps; the first stirrings of denial in America; Austin J. App - the world of immoral equivalencies; denial - a tool of the radical right; entering the mainstream - the case of Arthur Butz; the Institute for Historical Review; the gas chamber controversy; the battle for the campus; watching on the Rhine - the future course of Holocaust denial. Appendix: twisting the truth - Zyklon-B, the gas chambers, and the "Diary of Anne Frank".