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The best-supported, widely accepted estimate is that about six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered in the Holocaust; major institutions such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and ...
Historical estimates place the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust at about six million, a figure supported by major institutions such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem and reflected...
Scholars and critics most commonly point to Quran 9:29 (jizya) and nearby verses in Sura 9 — plus the so-called “sword verse” 9:5 — when discussing prescriptions about fighting People of the Book; 9:2...
The figure “six million” for Jewish victims of the Holocaust is the scholarly and institutional shorthand for the estimated number of Jewish men, women and children murdered by Nazi Germany and its co...
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was proven a literary forgery largely through plagiarism analysis and courtroom testimony: The Times of London in 1921 showed large sections were copied from Mauric...
The immediate Nazi reprisals after the May–June 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are widely reported as having been ordered at the highest levels of the Nazi regime—most sources say Adolf Hitle...
The Holocaust was a systematic, state-sponsored genocide in which Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered about six million Jews and millions of other people between 1933 and 1945; major instituti...
Estimates of how many Nazis fled to South America after World War II vary widely; several sources cite figures up to about 9,000 people spirited out of Europe, with specific allocations such as “as ma...
The postwar trials in 1945–46 relied on a combination of eyewitness testimony (survivors, perpetrators), documentary evidence, film and photographs, and physical site inspection reports to establish t...
Poland suffered the largest Jewish losses: roughly three million Jews were killed there during the Holocaust, making it the single biggest national death toll . Major national losses also occurred in ...
European Jewry grew from the late 19th century into the interwar period and by the late 1930s numbered roughly 9–9.5 million, making up a majority of the world’s Jews (about 57% in some estimates) . B...
Different bodies and governments disagree, but a substantial and growing body of reporting, NGO research, tribunal findings and some national determinations conclude that China’s policies in Xinjiang ...
The April 1, 1933 Nazi-organized boycott of Jewish businesses was the first nationwide anti‑Jewish action after Hitler came to power and served as a public, state‑backed signal that economic and socia...
The Donald J. Trump Foundation gave money to a wide roster of charities before it was dissolved, with public records and reporting identifying hundreds of recipient organizations across health, educat...
Nazi gas chambers were used as a methodical tool of mass murder in the Holocaust: between 2.3 and 3 million Jews were killed with poisonous gas and Zyklon B alone was used to murder roughly 1.1 millio...
Estimates of Holocaust victims vary because historians use different sources and methods — Nazi records, postwar demographic studies, survivor lists and forensic evidence — and because gaps and undocu...
The Nazi regime issued several explicit military orders and adopted slogans and ratios that sanctioned collective reprisals against civilians and partisan host populations, most notably the Barbarossa...
In the United States, denying the Holocaust carries no general criminal penalty because the First Amendment protects most speech, and federal and major institutional sources state Holocaust denial is ...
The prevailing scholarly estimate attributes roughly to the Holocaust, with the commonly cited figure of repeatedly supported by demographic analysis, Nazi records, and survivor and perpetrator testim...
The weight of historical evidence and the consensus among scholars and major institutions support the widely stated figure that approximately six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust, ...