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Nazi War Crimes

The crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II, including the Holocaust.

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Jan 31, 2026
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Did really 271k people died in the holocoast

The claim that “271,000 people died in the Holocaust” cannot be supported by the authoritative scholarship and institutional estimates in the provided reporting; mainstream historical consensus places...

Feb 6, 2026

How did migration and persecution affect Jewish population figures in the 1930s leading up to WWII?

rule in the 1930s drove significant Jewish migration out of and annexed territories, reducing Jewish numbers there from roughly 523,000 in 1933 to about 202,000 in Germany and 57,000 in annexed by the...

Feb 4, 2026

What sources do Holocaust deniers misuse, and how have historians refuted those claims?

Holocaust deniers repeatedly misuse a narrow set of documents, selective testimonies, flawed forensic reports and out‑of‑context archival gaps to argue that mass extermination did not occur or was exa...

Feb 4, 2026

How do historians estimate the total number of Jewish victims in Nazi extermination camps?

Historians estimate the number of Jewish victims in extermination camps by triangulating surviving Nazi paperwork and camp tallies, deportation lists and local records, demographic comparisons of prew...

Jan 29, 2026

What long-term social and political consequences did mass sexual violence in 1945 Germany have on survivors and communities?

in in 1945 inflicted immediate physical and psychological devastation on individual survivors and produced long-term social ruptures: elevated rates of chronic trauma, suicides, stigmatization within ...

Jan 28, 2026

Where did the 300,000 Holocaust estimate originate and who promotes it?

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...