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Holocaust

The Holocaust, including the death toll and the role of Nazi concentration camps.

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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...

Jan 11, 2026
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Was George Soros’s father a Nazi?

George Soros’s father, Tivadar Soros, was not a Nazi; he was a Hungarian Jewish lawyer who took steps to protect his family from Nazi persecution, including changing the family name and securing false...

Jan 29, 2026
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Which Democratic politicians have publicly compared Donald Trump to Hitler or Nazis, with sourcing?

The available reporting shows a pattern of invoking about , but the cited sources do not provide a long list of clearly documented, specific Democratic elected officials who flatly said “” in unequivo...

Jan 12, 2026

What legal and historical definitions exist for 'collective punishment' and how were they applied in World War II?

Collective punishment—penalizing a group for acts committed by individuals—has long roots in military practice but is now banned under modern international humanitarian law because it targets the inno...

Feb 1, 2026

Are ice detention centers like concentration camps

The label “” applied to detention centers is contested: some historians and commentators argue the term accurately captures mass detention of civilians without trial and punitive intent, while others ...

Jan 26, 2026

Waffen SS were considered war heroes.

were not widely or legitimately considered "" in any neutral or legal sense: they were the armed combat branch of that fought alongside but were deeply implicated in mass atrocities and declared a cri...

Jan 19, 2026

How many Jewish survivors remained in Europe immediately after WWII and how did numbers change by 1946-1947?

Immediately after World War II the Jewish population of Europe had been reduced from a prewar total of roughly 9.5 million to a postwar remainder in the mid‑3‑million range, with most reputable contem...

Jan 17, 2026

Did Hitler reveal which jewish books he was burning

The historical record assembled in the sources shows that Nazi-organized book burnings in 1933 targeted “un‑German” works — including many by Jewish authors — but there is no citation in the provided ...

Jan 25, 2026

dhs podium slogan

A phrase reading "" did appear on the lectern during a Jan. press conference and that image circulated widely online, prompting accusations that the wording echoed genocidal-era reprisals linked to . ...

Jan 16, 2026

did the jews start the war on germany

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...

Jan 16, 2026

What primary Nazi documents most directly show implementation of the Final Solution?

The clearest primary Nazi documents pointing to both the planning and the administrative implementation of the “Final Solution” are internal memoranda and bureaucratic reports—the Göring memorandum of...

Jan 29, 2026

What legal definitions have courts or international bodies used for 'concentration camp' and how do they apply to U.S. detention?

Courts and international bodies have not produced a single, universally binding legal definition of “”; instead historians, legal scholars and dictionaries characterize it by a cluster of features — m...

Jan 17, 2026

What primary Nazi documents presented at Nuremberg most directly demonstrate the policy of mass murder?

The most direct primary Nazi documents presented at Nuremberg that demonstrated a policy of mass murder were bureaucratic orders and records that showed coordinated, state-level planning (notably mate...

Jan 16, 2026

What archival evidence exists in Gestapo reports about the investigation linking Lidice to Heydrich’s assassins?

Gestapo archival reporting—reproduced in postwar histories and reference works—recorded that investigators briefly suspected Lidice because several Czechoslovak army officers exiled in Britain had ori...

Jan 15, 2026

What are the most significant archival discoveries about Auschwitz since 1990 and how did they change the camp's death toll estimates?

Significant archival work beginning around 1990—most notably the publication of Franciszek Piper’s research for the Auschwitz Museum and the release/analysis of camp documentation—prompted a major rev...

Jan 13, 2026

How did Eichmann’s population tables compiled for Wannsee shape the scale and targets of deportations across Europe?

Adolf Eichmann’s country-by-country population tables — compiled as page six of the Wannsee Protocol — translated the Nazi leadership’s genocidal intent into concrete, quantifiable targets by listing ...

Feb 6, 2026

Which camps had the highest confirmed death tolls and how were those numbers documented?

, the camps (, , ) and rank as the sites with the highest confirmed death tolls within the Nazi camp system, with Auschwitz alone accounting for well over a million victims and the Reinhard killing ce...

Feb 5, 2026

What impact did 1939 borders and occupations have on recorded Jewish population figures?

The mapping of figures on the eve of was profoundly distorted by the border changes, annexations and occupations of 1938–1939: some country totals simply absorbed Jewish populations through annexation...

Feb 4, 2026

Mentions of germany or german citizen

The supplied reporting mentions repeatedly across politics, citizenship, energy, legal cases and demographics, and identifies at least one named German national involved in a criminal sentence () and ...

Feb 3, 2026

How did the Eichmann kidnapping change Argentine-Israeli relations and domestic politics in the 1960s?

of from in May 1960 ruptured a brief post‑Perón thaw between and , triggering a sharp but short‑lived at the while inflicting lasting political and social reverberations within Argentina’s Jewish comm...