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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.
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* 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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How could I ever have doubted that the Holocaust - the systematic murder of millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and trade unionists - happened? Simply, because I needed to. If you wanted to (dis)believe something in it, eventually you will.
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― HATE: My Life In The British Far Right
― HATE: My Life In The British Far Right
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There is a psychological dimension to the deniers’ and minimizers’ objectives: The general public tends to accord victims of genocide a certain moral authority. If you devictimize a people you strip them of their moral authority, and if you can in turn claim to be a victim, as the Poles and Austrians often try to do, that moral authority is conferred on or restored to you.
-- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, pages 7-8
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― Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
― Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
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