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Holocaust Denial and the Law : A Comparative Study / by Robert A. Kahn

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Online-Ressource (xi, 207 p)

Englisch

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978-1-4039-8050-2

978-1-349-52830-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Springer eBook Collection

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9781403980502

BL48

200.09     Ähnliche Literatur

bcl: 15.50 ; bicssc: HRAX ; bisacsh: REL033000

LOC-SH: Comparative politics ; Religion ; Religion -- History ; Judaism ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Political science ; Law -- Philosophy ; Law ; Comparative government.

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