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Documentary, archival, survivor and museum records all agree: Nazi gas chambers were real and were used to murder large numbers of people during the Holocaust — historians estimate between roughly 2.3...
New archival finds and postwar archival work have refined and in many cases made more precise the component counts of Holocaust victims — transports, Einsatzgruppen reports, camp registers and memoria...
Historians distinguish a small number of purpose-built extermination camps where mass gassing was the central mechanism—Auschwitz‑Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec, Chełmno and Majdanek—and multipl...
The widely cited figure that six million Jewish people were killed during the Second World War is supported by the major museums, archives and scholarship: authoritative institutions such as the Unite...
The first Summer Olympics after World War II were the 1948 Games in London, held from 29 July to 14 August; they resumed the Summer programme after a 12‑year hiatus caused by the cancellation of the 1...
Nazi camps used Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) widely as a purpose-adapted killing agent at Auschwitz and Majdanek, and smaller camps also had Zyklon B chambers . Available sources discuss other camps an...
Estimates place roughly six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust, with the largest regional shares concentrated in Eastern Europe—Poland alone accounting for about three million deaths—and large num...
Photographs and film from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau show both snowy scenes and images without visible snow; the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 during winter, and many contemporaneou...
The most widely accepted scholarly and institutional estimate is that approximately six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators during the H...
The short answer is: yes — mainstream historical scholarship and major institutions place Jewish deaths under the Nazi regime at approximately six million, with the best-supported range between about ...
Camp personnel obtained, stored and deployed homicidal gases using commercially produced cyanide-based pesticides (Zyklon B) and engine-exhaust or carbon-monoxide systems depending on the site; Zyklon...
Hitler’s wartime service and the trauma of Germany’s 1918 defeat became pillars of the antisemitic case he advanced: he adopted the “stab‑in‑the‑back” myth that blamed Jews (and communists) for German...
World War II remains highly visible in 2025 through commemorations, museum programming and popular culture: the White House proclaimed May 8, 2025, as Victory Day for WWII marking the 80th anniversary...
Debates over whether to count Jews who died under Soviet rule from disease, famine, or Soviet actions separately from Nazi killings — and whether Soviet-era tallies folded Jewish Holocaust deaths into...
The Nuremberg Trials established legal concepts—most notably accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the idea that following orders is not an absolute defense—that shaped post‑war ...
The core factual consensus among historians and major institutions is that , with many authoritative accounts citing a working range of 250,000–500,000 and some lower-bound assessments near 220,000; e...