For 10 points, name this devastating event whose denial is a crime in France and Germany.
In 2012, a book about IBM's involvement in this event was published by investigative journalist Edwin Black. A 2000 book that attacks an "industry" associated with this event brought the author into a dispute that ended in a 2007 denial of tenure at DePaul. Karl Schleunes was among the first to hold that this specific event preceded in a "functionalist" manner, unlike the "intentionalism" of earlier scholars. It's not a war or election, but dealing with the (*) legacy of this event was the subject of the 1980s "historians' quarrel." Norman Finkelstein argues that this event has been improperly appropriated as a source of legitimacy. Police involved in implementing this event were argued to be simply following orders by Christopher Browning in Ordinary Men. A man who facilitated this event is analyzed as the "banality of evil" in a book by Hannah Arendt. For 10 points, name this devastating event whose denial is a crime in France and Germany.
In 2012, a book about IBM's involvement in this event was published by investigative journalist Edwin Black.
the Holocaust [or the Shoah; prompt on World War II] 