The Hoax of the Twentieth Century

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry is a book by Northwestern University electrical engineering professor Arthur Butz. The book was first published in 1976 in Britain by Anthony Hancock’s Historical Review Press, known as a Holocaust denial publisher. It has been influential in the Holocaust denial movement and has been described as anti-semitic with Alan Davies calling it an "antisemitic classic".

Butz argues that Nazi Germany did not exterminate millions of Jews using homicidal gas chambers during World War II but that the Holocaust was a propaganda hoax.

The book has been banned in Canada and is X-rated in Germany where it cannot be displayed or advertised. In 2017, the online book seller Amazon.com removed the book, along with other holocaust-denying titles, from its US and UK sites. Barnes & Noble has also stopped selling the book online.