''The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry'' is a book by

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professor and

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Arthur Butz Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University and a Holocaust denier, best known as the author of the pseudohistorical book ''The Hoax of the Twentieth Century''. He achieved tenure in 1974 and curr ...

. The book was originally published in 1975 in the United Kingdom by Anthony Hancock’s Historical Review Press, known as a

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publisher. An

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work, it has been influential in the Holocaust denial movement. Canadian academic Alan T. Davies has described it as an "antisemitic classic". Butz argues that

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did not exterminate millions of

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using homicidal gas chambers during World War II but that

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was a

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hoax. The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised. In 2017, the online book seller

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removed the book, along with other Holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites.

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