Ex Occidente Obscuritas: The Diffusion Of Holocaust Denial From West To East
Ex Occidente Obscuritas: The Diffusion Of Holocaust Denial From West To East

Summary/Abstract: “Holocaust deniers and Holocaust minimizers are quite fond of citing the by-now famous line “There’s no business like the Shoah-business.” Nobody knows exactly who came up first with this rather tasteless twist of “there’s no business like the show business,” and it does not much matter either. In response, however, one could point out that the “no-business” is not doing too badly either. On top, the “no-business” is by far older than the “Shoah-business.” The roots of “no-business” date as far back as the perpetration of the Holocaust (ADL, 1997), for Nazi bureaucratic language carefully sought to camouflage the Final Solution (itself already a terminological testimony of the endeavor) under euphemistic terminology such as “evacuation (Aussiedlung) to the East,” “special treatment” (Sonderbehandlung), “subjects treated,” “suitable treatment,” (Benz, 1991:2; Shermer and Grobman, 2000: 185, 215-224).1 In addition, as defeat was looming, the Nazis attempted to eradicate physical evidence of their crimes, including in Aktion 1005 (the removal of bodies in the extermination camps and from mass graves and their burning),”[…]

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