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    The Van Pelt Report by Robert Jan van Pelt

    150 150 Holocaust Denial on Trial

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    1. The purpose of this report

    2. My qualifications and expertise

    3. Material instructions

    4. Relevant documentation in the action

    5. Relevant material and opinions

    Introduction

    Part One Concerning History

    I Auschwitz.

    II Auschwitz and the Holocaust

    Part Two Concerning Evidence

    III Intimations, 1941 – 1945

    IV Attestations, 1945 – 46

    V Confessions, 1945 – 47

    Part Three Concerning Documents

    VI Blueprints of Genocide

    Part Four Concerning Denial

    VII Auschwitz and Holocaust Denial

    VIII Auschwitz and the Faurisson Affair

    IX The Leuchter Report

    Part Five Concerning Irving

    X Auschwitz and David Irving (1977 – 1988-1992)

    XI Irving Adrift (1993-1998)

    Conclusion

    Notes

    Bibliographic Information

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    title: [The Van Pelt Report]: Electronic Edition
    author: Robert Jan van Pelt
    sponsor: Rabbi Donald A. Tams Institute for Jewish Studies
    extent: 773 pages

    publication statement : Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services, Emory University Atlanta, GA 540 Asbury Circle Woodruff Library Atlanta, GA 30322©Emory University.

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    title: Holocaust Denial on Trial

    Transcribed from the trial documents into HTML by Addison-Wesley, and translated into XML based on the HTML and print editions by the Beck Center staff. Van Pelt’s report examines Irving’s distortions about Auschwitz, its gas chambers and incineration facilities, as well as its role in the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.’

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    [The Van Pelt Report] Robert Jan van Pelt London Davenport Lyons Solicitors 1 Old Burlington Street London W1X 2NL [1999]

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