The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

A Holocaust-denial text that packages antisemitic propaganda as historical revision.

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century is organized less as a story than as an argument. As a pseudo-history, it tries to persuade readers through selection, emphasis, and direct claims about antisemitism, holocaust denial, and propaganda.

Its significance lies in the way it compresses large claims into memorable formulas and positions. Even readers who reject the work usually have to reckon with how sharply it frames questions about antisemitism, holocaust denial, and propaganda.

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century entered censorship debates as a pseudo-history associated with antisemitism, holocaust denial, and propaganda. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around hate speech and antisemitism.

The earliest event currently captured here is 1980s-1990s in Canada, where Customs and hate-literature authorities seized and prohibited import. Canadian authorities treated the work as hate literature rather than legitimate scholarship. This is a case where the ban responds directly to a text's propagandistic falsification.

This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

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