ABSTRACT
For most people the notion that the Holocaust was an enormous hoax is nonsensical. How is it possible to see the newsreels from barbed wire-encircled camps with emaciated and withered bodies in piles or mass graves and not be filled with horror and sympathy? With such definitive evidence how can one still not believe? The answers to these questions are complex and important and hold contemporary relevance. The denial of Nazi crimes by British fascists predated the war and can be found throughout the 1930s and during the war years. As some socialists turned a blind eye to the terrors of Stalinism, so Britain’s fascists did the same with the reports coming out of Germany. Amongst the most influential Britons to publish literature designed to relativise and thus diminish Nazi crimes in the immediate postwar period were Major General Fuller and Liddell Hart.
