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The denial of the Holocaust, which was a genocide during World War II, and the evidence that contradicts these claims.
The historical record—built from Nazi documents, camp infrastructure, survivor and perpetrator testimony, demographic research, wartime photographs and forensic studies—shows that and its collaborator...
The short answer: no — the claim that “Jews were behind the Bolshevik Revolution” is a long-standing antisemitic conspiracy, not a historically supported explanation for 1917; while several prominent ...
advance a small set of recurring claims — that the Nazi “Final Solution” was a deportation policy rather than a program of extermination, that gas chambers did not function as killing facilities, and ...
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...
Holocaust denial movements have long sought to undercut public understanding by contesting the number of victims, disputing methods of killing, and reframing documentary evidence as erroneous or forge...
Forensic work at former extermination camps has produced physical traces—chemical residues, skeletal remains, artifacts, and mass internment records—that corroborate documentary testimony and survivor...
Scholarly consensus and leading institutions estimate that approximately six million Jewish people were murdered by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators during the Holocaust, with most authorit...
A wide-ranging body of primary documents and forensic findings—Nazi bureaucratic records, Einsatzgruppen reports, captured camp registers and correspondence, contemporaneous speeches by Nazi leaders, ...
The most decisive refutations of come not from any single source but from an interlocking body of primary archival records, contemporaneous bureaucratic paperwork and physical evidence, eyewitness and...
The consensus of major Holocaust historians and institutions is that roughly five to Jewish people were murdered by and its collaborators during . None of the supplied sources, however, break that tot...
The prosecution at built its case largely on documentary evidence produced by the itself — a vast, heterogeneous archive that included official orders, administrative files, photographs and films, and...
Current scholarly and memorial-institution consensus places the estimated number of people who perished at at roughly ; most of those victims were Jews—about one million—while the remainder included t...
The figure widely cited in attempts to minimize the Holocaust traces back not to archival tallies of all Jewish victims but to postwar, partial counts and press reports — notably a 1955 item in the ne...
and revisionism produce two distinct consequence streams: legal penalties where jurisdictions criminalize denial as or promotion of Nazism, and academic penalties ranging from censure to exclusion fro...
Wartime and near-wartime documents produced by Nazi architects, SS construction offices and engineers describe planning, building and outfitting facilities expressly designed to be gas-tight, fitted w...
Holocaust deniers deploy a repeatable toolbox of rhetorical tricks—conspiracy claims, cherry‑picked “evidence,” quote‑mining, moral relativism, and dehumanizing language—to cast doubt on well‑document...
Holocaust denial emerged immediately after World War II as a reaction of disbelief and concerted revisionist campaigns seeking to erase or minimize Nazi crimes, and has since evolved from fringe print...
Historians and demographers arrived at the “six million” figure through converging lines of evidence: Nazi operational records and reports, police and Einsatzgruppen death tallies, camp transport and ...
Yes: the Holocaust happened. A vast, multi‑type body of evidence—Nazi documents and orders, Allied and German photographs and films, survivor testimony, forensic archaeology, and postwar investigation...
Swimming-pool–like reservoirs did exist in several Nazi camps, but their primary function was utilitarian (firefighting or water storage) and access varied widely: in many documented cases the facilit...