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Am I reading this right? If you point out Romania, France, Poland, Austria, and so on participated in/contributed to the Holocaust, Lipstat says that's Holocaust denial? That Germany and only Germany with help from no one else carried it out? Just....what?
The Holocaust wasn't even the only genocide in WW2. The Japanese and Italians made sure of that. Not to mention other crimes like the ones done to minorities in the US (residential schools, segregation, Japanese internment, etc.) or British famines in India.
For this Finkelstein cites Lipstadt's Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), pages 6, 12, 22, 89–90. Let's see . . .
It looks like this part is mostly from 89-90, where she discusses Austin J. App, an American professor who "formulated eight axioms . . . as the basic postulates of Holocaust denial." Unless the pagination on the copy I found is different from Finkelstein's, this must be one passage he's referring to:
Despite her distrust here and elsewhere in the book of anyone who mentions the internment of Japanese-Americans, elsewhere in the book she also briefly discusses the way Holocaust denial has led American cranks to claim that those internment camps were a hoax.