Historical Objectivity

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The paper explains how both Lipstadt and Cohen offer poignant views of revisionist history and the subjectivity of historical evaluation that makes their arguments more politically based, rather than accurate. By the objective facts and witnesses that were part of the Holocaust, Stiles defines their experience as invaluable to historical accuracy when he states: "The last victim of a genocide is truth." In this manner, the victims become the ultimate historical objectivity that records and holds sacred the tenants of memory, which prevent history from repeating itself.

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"This Holocaust study will analyze the premise of revisionist history through the varying aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, but more importantly through the larger premise of genocide. By analyzing the negative aspects of revisionist theory that deny the Holocaust, one can argue the invalidity of politics that become unraveled behind the truth of genocide. In this manner, historical revision can be warped through political subjectivity and power, rather than observing the very policy that define a genocide under the Geneva Convention. The modern claim that "The last victim of genocide is truth," written by Richard Cohen in the article: "Killing Truth," portray the last, but only reason that the Holocaust was a real historical event."

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