The Holocaust
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The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, as the SS guards load the bodies of dead prisoners onto a lorry for burial. April 1945.
The Nazis systematically murdered six million Jewish people during World War II. They imprisoned them in concentration camps and killed them in gas chambers. There are 3,000 tons of German paperwork that outline it all.
According to a survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, two-thirds of the world’s population hadn’t heard of the Holocaust or think it never happened. People age 65 and younger and those living in the Middle East and North Africa were the most likely to be doubters.
Deniers typically hold that the scope and the killing methods were greatly exaggerated in order to garner sympathy for Jewish people. Those who claim the Holocaust is a flat-out myth agree with British author David Irving, who said, “I don’t see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It’s baloney. It’s a legend.”
Wikimedia CommonsDefendants in the Nuremberg trials. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring, considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler’s death. 1945-1946.
But American historian and professor Deborah Lipstadt, whom Irving unsuccessfully sued for libel in 2000, pointed out that “the Holocaust has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in human history….The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and foster antisemitism.”
