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United States' official memorial to the Holocaust in Washington, D.C.
Primary evidence that Nazi leaders threatened and justified reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s May 1942 assassination appears in contemporaneous Nazi orders and official communications, in high-level...
Historians agree that approximately six million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust, a figure established and memorialized by major institutions including the United States Holocaust Memo...
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...
Estimates of deaths in Nazi concentration, extermination, forced‑labor and related camps vary by definition and scope: camp‑system deaths are commonly reported in the low millions — for example, sourc...
Nazi gas chambers were part of a systematic program that evolved from early “euthanasia” experiments (1939–1941) into industrialized killing at extermination camps such as Auschwitz‑Birkenau, Treblink...
Holocaust deniers argue (a) the Holocaust was exaggerated or fabricated, (b) gas chambers did not exist or were for delousing, and (c) casualty figures (notably “six million”) are inflated or unproven...
Hitler presented the “Aryan” as a biologically superior, creative “genius” race whose purity he insisted Germany must preserve and expand; he tied that claim to a racial hierarchy that placed Jews, Ro...
Major institutions and historians commonly estimate that roughly six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust, a figure based on multiple methods including pre‑ and postwar population acco...
Allegations that China’s actions in Xinjiang meet the legal definition of genocide rest on a constellation of evidence: mass and arbitrary detention of more than a million people, coercive reproductiv...
The claim "Are Jewish people evil" is false, harmful, and rooted in long-standing antisemitic myths and stereotypes; authoritative analyses demonstrate no factual basis for labeling an entire religiou...
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...
Today’s surviving Jewish Holocaust population is commonly reported as just over 220,000 people worldwide, a figure cited by the Claims Conference and media outlets in 2025 . Survivor registries grew f...
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...
Holocaust deniers repeatedly assert that Nazi “gas chambers” either did not exist or were not used to kill people — arguments advanced via pseudo‑scientific reports (notably the Leuchter Report) and p...
Karl Hermann Frank’s contemporaneous proclamations include an official bilingual broadside headed “BEKANNTMACHUNG” / “VYHLASKA” that, hours after the May 27, 1942 assassination attempt on Reinhard Hey...
Holocaust deniers attack the accepted Auschwitz death toll by pointing to changing postwar estimates, selective archival documents (notably a registry figure widely cited online), and discredited fore...
A broad, multidisciplinary body of evidence — physical remains at camps, Nazi documents, wartime intelligence and photographs, survivor and perpetrator testimony, postwar trials and archaeological wor...
The “Hostage Edict” refers broadly to the system of orders and regulations issued by Nazi military leadership in 1941–42 that institutionalized the taking and summary execution of civilian hostages an...
Archival records supporting the commonly cited figure of about six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust come from multiple, independent documentary streams: captured Nazi paperwork (including Wannse...