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Extermination Camps

Extermination camps were used to murder Jews during the Holocaust.

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Jan 27, 2026
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How did Zyklon B chemically kill people and what are its active components?

was a commercial pesticide whose lethal agent was (HCN); in pellet form it released HCN gas when exposed to air, killing by blocking cellular respiration at the mitochondrial level and rapidly deprivi...

Jan 27, 2026
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holocaust was fake

The claim "" is false: the Holocaust is one of the most thoroughly documented genocides in history, supported by documents, investigations, survivor testimony, forensic evidence, and demographic resea...

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What is the estimated number of LGBTQ+ individuals who survived the Holocaust?

Estimates of how many survived the Holocaust are imprecise because historians disagree on the size of the population targeted, the number sent to camps, and death rates; surviving cohorts ranged from ...

Jan 17, 2026

What role did Jehovah's Witnesses play as non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust?

Jehovah’s Witnesses were a distinct category of non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution who suffered imprisonment, deportation to concentration camps, torture, and execution because they refused to ple...

Jan 28, 2026

What evidence refutes claims that Holocaust deaths were only 300,000?

The claim that Holocaust deaths totaled only collapses under a convergence of documentary, demographic, forensic, testimonial and legal evidence assembled since 1945; specialists place Jewish fataliti...

Jan 23, 2026

Major events in Nazi suppression of religion 1933-1945

Between 1933 and 1945 the systematically sought to subordinate, co‑opt, marginalize and, in many cases, annihilate religious communities that conflicted with its racial and political ideology; it comb...