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The Holocaust Industry

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:38:28
Category: / Social Sciences
Length: 9 pages (2342 words)
Norman Finkelstein's 2000 book The Holocaust Industry is regarded as one of the most controversial texts to be published in the early years of this new millennium. Finkelstein's book has indeed caused a great stir in the community at large, particularly in the USA, for it provides a compelling argument that the Jewish Holocaust of World War Two is in fact an industry with an objective of extorting money from Europe under the guise of compensation. …
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…directly an brutally affected by Nazi genocidal activities. Indeed Finkelstein is himself Jewish. Finkelstein argues not about the legitimacy of the Holocaust and whether it occurred. Nor does he interpret the meaning and motives but rather he interprets the scale and motives on a commercial basis as he argues that the 'Holocaust' as an industry that was contrived in 1967 to "extort money from Europe. Finkelstein argues that it is the creation of the American-Jewish establishment.
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