Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the denial, downplaying or trivialisation of the Holocaust (the genocide of approximately 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945). Holocaust deniers mainly argue that:

the deaths of Jews was unintentional;
Nazi Germany only intended to deport or enslave the Jewish population of Europe rather than exterminate it;
Nazi massacres and other war crimes were actually carried out by the Soviet Red Army or NKVD;
Certain groups or figures (e.g. the German Wehrmacht or the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) bear no responsibility in the Holocaust;
The actual death toll of the Holocaust is much lower than 6 million, or
the Holocaust was an outright fabrication invented by the Allied Powers of World War II (and in particular the Soviet Union), who were led by a Jewish conspiracy.

Individuals who deny the Holocaust may not believe all of these arguments at the same time, however, as many of the arguments that they make (e.g. claiming that the death toll of the Holocaust is being exaggerated and claiming that the Holocaust was an outright fabrication) are contradictory.

In most academic circles studying the Holocaust and its aftermath (which includes Jewish scholars), it is considered such a unique event—without equal—that comparing it to or equating it with another massacre or genocide is also considered a form of denial.^[1]

References

↑ “The Holocaust is not referred to simply as the “Nazi genocide,” but has its own names — Yiddish, der Khurbn, Hebrew, ha-Shoah, English, the Holocaust — to signify a unique event. It is more than a linguistic curiosity that postwar attempts by some Jewish groups to subsume the Holocaust as one of the historic massacres endured by the Jews that are mourned on Tíshebov (Tisha b’Av) failed, because of the virtually unanimous feeling among survivors that this one, in 20th-century Europe, was so very different, and intrinsically incomparable with even the primary ancient national catastrophes of destruction and exile.

The Holocaust cannot, must not, be subsumed — but that is precisely what the Double Genocide theory seeks to do.”

Dovid Katz (2017-11-22). "The "double genocide" theory" Jewish Currents.

[1] “The Holocaust is not referred to simply as the “Nazi genocide,” but has its own names — Yiddish, der Khurbn, Hebrew, ha-Shoah, English, the Holocaust — to signify a unique event. It is more than a linguistic curiosity that postwar attempts by some Jewish groups to subsume the Holocaust as one of the historic massacres endured by the Jews that are mourned on Tíshebov (Tisha b’Av) failed, because of the virtually unanimous feeling among survivors that this one, in 20th-century Europe, was so very different, and intrinsically incomparable with even the primary ancient national catastrophes of destruction and exile.

The Holocaust cannot, must not, be subsumed — but that is precisely what the Double Genocide theory seeks to do.”

Dovid Katz (2017-11-22). "The "double genocide" theory" Jewish Currents.

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