historical field. It is also commonly referred to as denial. Opinions on this field of history can be mostly seen as seen through a quote by Deborah Lipstadt, who was a professor at the University of Washington. “Deniers build their pseudo-arguments on traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes and imagery. (Lipstadt, 2011, The Eichmann Trial.) This quote shows that the opinions on this form of revisionism are not accepted wholly. The major problem with this is the fact that it impacts on the idea of revisionism as a whole. The idea for historical negationism is that there are controversial events within history that are wrong. However negationism is frowned upon by the historical field, as the events chosen for its argument, are usually controversial
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Harry Elmer Barnes, a prominent war historian who wrote during the 20th century from the perspective of the Germans,viewed the war from a different perspective than the one that was already being perceived. Yet where other historians had come to the conclusion that the war was started by the Germans and that the Holocaust was a definitive fact. He stated that “Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.” (Barnes, 1953, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace.) This quote shows that Barnes was reviewing the worldview and using the paradigm shift idea presented by Kuhn in order to present a new idea on the historical record. He used the holocaust in order to determine whether this idea, was in fact definitive, or if perhaps maybe over the years the German war regime was distorted by the Jews and Allies alike. Barnes’ approach to the idea of the holocaust, was in other historians opinions, distorted, and in their view could not be seen as a legitimate attempt at rewriting the past. Lucy Dawidowicz a Jewish WWII historian, went so far as in her work to call Mr Barnes “A presumptive doyen of American isolationist historians, guru to fledgling
Harry Elmer Barnes, a prominent war historian who wrote during the 20th century from the perspective of the Germans,viewed the war from a different perspective than the one that was already being perceived. Yet where other historians had come to the conclusion that the war was started by the Germans and that the Holocaust was a definitive fact. He stated that “Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.” (Barnes, 1953, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace.) This quote shows that Barnes was reviewing the worldview and using the paradigm shift idea presented by Kuhn in order to present a new idea on the historical record. He used the holocaust in order to determine whether this idea, was in fact definitive, or if perhaps maybe over the years the German war regime was distorted by the Jews and Allies alike. Barnes’ approach to the idea of the holocaust, was in other historians opinions, distorted, and in their view could not be seen as a legitimate attempt at rewriting the past. Lucy Dawidowicz a Jewish WWII historian, went so far as in her work to call Mr Barnes “A presumptive doyen of American isolationist historians, guru to fledgling