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Holocaust Denial
Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements:
* Nazi Germany's Final Solution was aimed only at deporting Jews from the Reich and did not include their extermination;
* Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers for the genocidal mass murder of Jews; or
* the actual number of Jews murdered is significantly lower than the accepted figure of 5 to 6 million, typically around a tenth of that figure.
Because Holocaust denial is a common facet of certain racist ...more
* Nazi Germany's Final Solution was aimed only at deporting Jews from the Reich and did not include their extermination;
* Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers for the genocidal mass murder of Jews; or
* the actual number of Jews murdered is significantly lower than the accepted figure of 5 to 6 million, typically around a tenth of that figure.
Because Holocaust denial is a common facet of certain racist ...more
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Another crucial thing to question is why deniers even bother to quibble about the number of deaths. If one day it were proven only five million or 5.5 million Jews were exterminated, would it be any less an atrocity? What number would deniers suggest is low enough to say that genocide didn't occur and that it’s not important that humanity remembers the Holocaust and the lessons learnt?
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― Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
― Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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Never forget” is the collective plea of Holocaust survivors. And in the first few decades after WW2 ended, it really did seem as if humanity would always remember, and perhaps even learn from, the Nazi genocide so that future atrocities may be prevented. Unfortunately, the historicity of the Holocaust has been undermined and chipped away at by the exact same sinister forces that created the genocide in the first place: racists, religious bigots and the most paranoid type of conspiracy theorists
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― Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
― Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
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