ISBN:
9781403980502
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 207 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
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Erscheint auch als
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Keywords:
Comparative politics
;
Religion
;
Religion History
;
Judaism
;
World War, 1939-1945
;
Political science
;
Law Philosophy
;
Law
;
Comparative government.
Abstract:
From 1978-1996 Holocaust denial emerged as a major concern for the liberal democracies of Europe and North America. This period also saw the first prosecutions of Holocaust deniers. But these prosecutions often ran into trouble. Holocaust Denial and the Law relates how courts in four countries (Canada, France, Germany and the United States) resolved the dilemmas posed by Holocaust-denial litigation. It also describes how, in the United States, student editors had to decide whether to run ads denying the Holocaust. The book concludes that a given country's resolution of these dilemmas turns on its specific legal traditions and historical experiences
DOI:
10.1057/9781403980502
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