Conspiracy historiography aims to discredit official history as a facade.

Evidence

The object of the most varied and variable constructions was always to reveal official history as a joke, to demonstrate a sphere of secret influences of which the visible, traceable, and known historical reality was only the outward façade erected explicitly to fool the people. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 791

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into how the field reads conspiracy tropes about Muslims and immigrant populations — the same ‘secret influence behind the facade’ rhetoric. — connects to: Conspiracy subcultures require an official narrative to define themselves against — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 829
• SEED: Article angle: the structural similarity between conspiracy-theory historiography and the way totalitarian-era forgery functions as populist epistemology.