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Estimates for deaths in Nazi concentration, extermination and related camps vary by definition and source: the Holocaust’s Jewish death toll alone is "over six million" , while detailed documentation ...
The consensus of Holocaust scholarship holds that Auschwitz deportations and killings totalled roughly , a figure reached by long‑term archival research and not by a sudden recent “reduction” . Earlie...
Fascism is a modern, militant form of right‑wing nationalism that elevates the state or nation above the individual, centers power in a single leader or party, and enforces social and economic control...
Survivor and perpetrator testimonies describing gas chamber construction and operation at Auschwitz and Treblinka are prominent in the historical record: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum archives host...
Historical and scholarly sources widely describe the Nazi Party as a far‑right, racist, ultranationalist, and anti‑democratic movement that shared many features with European fascism and practised sta...
On May 10, 1933, Nazi-aligned university students staged nationwide burnings that destroyed an estimated 20,000–25,000 books in Berlin alone and thousands more across more than 20 university towns; th...
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...
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...
Holocaust deniers challenge the "six million" figure through a set of repeatable tactics: disputing documentary and forensic evidence, advancing alternative causes of death (disease, Allied bombing), ...
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) used socialist language and some early anti‑capitalist points to broaden appeal, but its core ideology and governance diverged sharply from sociali...
Antisemitic tropes fall into recurring themes — claims of Jewish control or excessive power; accusations of disloyalty or “dual loyalty”; money, greed and banking stereotypes; blood libels and deicide...
The primary historical documents proving the Holocaust consist of Nazi-era administrative records (deportation lists, camp registers, orders), contemporaneous photographs and film, survivor and libera...
The widely cited figure of approximately six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust has not been overturned by mainstream scholarship; most authoritative estimates continue to fall in a range between...
Estimates of Holocaust deaths have converged over eight decades toward a scholarly consensus that about six million Jewish people were murdered, while estimates of non-Jewish victims have remained bro...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
Researchers determining how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust rely on vast, overlapping archival collections: institutional databases (Yad Vashem’s Central Database, USHMM’s Holocaust ...
There is no evidence that Jews “started the war on Germany”; World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and Britain and France declared war, while Nazi leaders had already b...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau archives contain multiple types of original Nazi records that researchers use to estimate deaths: the 46-volume Sterbebücher (death books) listing almost 69,000 registered priso...
Historians estimate that roughly 1.1–1.5 million people died at the Auschwitz complex, with commonly cited figures of about 1.1 million deaths (including ~1 million Jews) and estimates that about 1.3 ...
The organization that became the Nazi Party began as the German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) in early 1919 and adopted the name Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) ...