ABSTRACT

This chapter presents an analysis of revisionist websites dedicated to the Holocaust denial. The case of revisionist websites is based on three assumptions: first, Internet communication plays a key role in destabilizing the processes for acquiring and establishing historical knowledge and social values (Béra and Méchoulan 1999; Crystal 2002; Godeluck 2002). Anybody now seems to be free to invent his or her own weltbild without necessarily employing the objective methods of rational inquiry. By using new media technologies since the early 1990s, revisionist propaganda manipulates the online community to restore the Nazi ideology that made the Holocaust possible.