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  Holocaust denial denial - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Holocaust denial denial is the belief that Holocaust denial never occurred or at least not to the degree that many believe it to.
Holocaust denial deniers believe that the extent of the atrocities committed during and leading up to World War II against minority groups in Europe by the Third Reich is much more far-reaching than most Holocaust deniers recognize.
Holocaust denial deniers argue that unlike Holocaust deniers (who they deny the existence of), there is an abundant amount of evidence to back up their claims.
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  Examination of Holocaust denial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holocaust denial is widely viewed as unreasonable because it fails to adhere to rules for the treatment of evidence, rules that are recognized as basic to rational inquiry.
Holocaust deniers cite the fact that there was never a blatant, unquestionable order written or signed by Adolf Hitler that specifically ordered the death of the Jewish populations of Germany or Poland.
Holocaust deniers discount these testimonies claiming that these witnesses were tortured, or that Rudolf Hoess allegedly signed a "blood stained confession" written in a language he did not understand (English) or that the Nuremberg Trial did not follow proper judicial procedures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Examination_of_Holocaust_denial   (3895 words)

  
 Holocaust denial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holocaust denial (commonly called Holocaust revisionism by its supporters) is the belief that the Holocaust did not occur as it is described by mainstream historiography.
Because of this, Holocaust denial is also illegal in a number of European countries, as their governments hold that it is motivated by an anti-Semitic and anti-democratic agenda.
Holocaust denial is relatively new to the Muslim world, as Kenneth Jacobson, assistant national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in an interview with Haaretz: "Adopting the theories of Holocaust denial of Western scholars is a relatively new phenomenon in the Muslim world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holocaust_denial   (7896 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial
This is precisely the intent of the Holocaust deniers: by attacking the facts of the Holocaust, and by framing this attack as merely an unorthodox point of view, their propaganda insinuates subtle but hateful anti-Semitic beliefs of Jews as exploiters of non-Jewish guilt and Jews as controllers of academia or the media.
Holocaust denial is a propaganda movement active in the United States, Canada and Western Europe which seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder of 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II.
For Holocaust deniers, this change appeared to confirm arguments that historical estimates of Holocaust deaths had been deliberately exaggerated, and that scholars were beginning to "retreat" in the face of "revisionist" assertions.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/denial.html   (4515 words)

  
 Combating Holocaust Denial: Holocaust Deniers and Public Misinformation
Holocaust denial is at its core an irrational hatred akin to antisemitism.
Holocaust deniers ignore the overwhelming evidence of the event and insist that the Holocaust is a myth, invented by the Allies, the Soviet communists, and the Jews for their own ends.
Deniers have focused their attention on Auschwitz and believe if they could just disprove that the Nazis used gas chambers in Auschwitz to kill Jews, the whole history of the Holocaust would also be discredited.
www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007272   (936 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial
Holocaust deniers claim that in order for the six million Jews to be killed, there must have been some sort of unfathomable weapon.
Holocaust deniers reject all evidence and claim that all documents and photographs are forgeries.
In contrast with this, Holocaust deniers flatly say that it never existed, and it is a mere invention of the imagination of the Jews.
home.snu.edu /~dwilliam/s98/holocaust/holocaustdenial.html   (1088 words)

  
 What is Holocaust Denial
Holocaust Denial is an Anti-Semitic propaganda movement active in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe that seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder of six million Jews during World War II.
By attacking the facts of the Holocaust and maintaining that their attack is merely an unorthodox point of view, Holocaust deniers demonstrate their subtle but hateful anti-Semitic beliefs.
Many proponents of Holocaust denial claim that their propaganda has been misrepresented, and that they are victims of yet another conspiracy, also led by Jews, to suppress independent research.
www.adl.org /hate-patrol/holocaust.asp   (740 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial - Conspiracy Theories in American History
Before discussing how Holocaust denial constitutes a conspiracy theory, and how the theory is distinctly American, it is important to understand what is meant by the term "Holocaust denial." Holocaust deniers, or "revisionists," as they call themselves, question all three major points of definition of the Nazi Holocaust.
Oddly, despite the present connections between some Holocaust deniers and violent extremists, it was via the anti-war movement of World War I that the seeds of Holocaust denial were planted in the United States.
Besides the haphazard manner in which deniers have chosen to lump all Jews together, regardless of religious or political orientation, as perpetrators of this "hoax," deniers also engage in efforts at pseudoscience to try to prove their point of view regarding the Holocaust.
www.holocaust-history.org /denial/abc-clio   (1775 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial: A Selected Bibliography
Holocaust deniers can appeal to the principle of freedom of speech and use the same methods and rhetoric as their prosecutors, which may lead not only to their acquittal, but also to distortions of history, as the Zundel case showed.
Holocaust denial appeals to a deeply-rooted human wish to seek goodness in the wake of radical evil, but it is also rooted in the irrational phenomenon of antisemitism, which will always surface in some form.
Holocaust denial, which began decades ago as a marginal phenomenon lying far beyond the borders of academic studies, is now rising and threatens to become a "revisionist school" of history.
sicsa.huji.ac.il /denial.html   (14472 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial Absurdities
Deniers claim that the Einsatzgruppen were for killing partisans and communists, not for killing Jews on account of their religion.
Holocaust deniers claim that Treblinka was a mere transit camp where Jews where sent before being sent to Eastern territories.
Holocaust denial is anti-Semitic on it's face, because to believe that the Holocaust is a hoax, you must also believe that thousands of Jews conspired to tell a massive lie to trick and hurt many others.
www.holocaustdenialabsurdities.com   (1393 words)

  
 Holocaust denial - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Holocaust denial is the first of six stages experienced by conspiracy theorists in the Holocaust Kübler-Ross model.
But eventually Holocaust deniers realize that there's no way the Belgians could have carried out a genocide, so they instead shift their anger to the one person capable of killing and torturing millions of people just for believing in the wrong religion: God.
The denier is willing to accept that the Holocaust did happen, however he pleads with history to have the Holocaust not happen as much.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Holocaust_denial   (757 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial
The Holocaust History Project is dedicated to fighting Holocaust-denial (or "revisionism"), whether based on a hatred of Jews or a desire to rehabilitate the discredited philosophy of National Socialism.
We take an active role in confronting denial, both online and in courtrooms halfway around the world, and consider this task to be as important as the purely historical material that we present.
The Holocaust History Project provides a number of "Who is" pamphlets on one aspect of Holocaust-denial, with, we hope, more work on more topics to follow.
www.holocaust-history.org /denial   (274 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial & The Big Lie
Holocaust deniers often claim that since more hydrocyanic compounds were found in the delousing chambers than in the ruins of the so-called "extermination" chambers at Auschwitz, and the reverse would be true if people were actually gassed there, it is clear that no mass gassings occurred.
Holocaust denial often asserts that Zyklon B could not have been used for killing in the gas chambers, because it is explosive, and the furnaces were nearby.
Holocaust denial asserts that the doors of the "alleged" gas chambers were much too weak to withstand the pressure of people trying to escape death from inside the chambers.
www.remember.org /History.root.rev.html   (8000 words)

  
 Holocause Denial in the PA
Abuse of the Holocaust, including Holocaust denial, is one aspect of the broad defamation of Jews and Israelis that is common in the Palestinian Authority.
And so, the Jewish Holocaust defenders themselves are on constant alert, apprehensive of the shift of attention from the fable of the Holocaust to the specific, historic holocaust...
The exploitation of the Holocaust for Palestinian political purposes is widespread in the Palestinian Authority.
www.pmw.org.il /holocaust.htm   (2029 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial, indian and Jewish (by L. Proyect)
Holocaust deniers try to make their message palatable to left-wing audiences by wrapping themselves in anti-Zionist rhetoric.
Jews who deny that Ariel Sharon had responsibility for the massacre at Sabra-Shatila weaken the moral authority that is needed to challenge the neo-Nazis.
As Segev notes, in Israel today the Holocaust, by one measure at least, has an even higher status than religion, since the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years imprisonment.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/jewish/holocaust_denial.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Holocaust Denial on Trial
Since then, a small group of Holocaust deniers have lied about and minimized this history by deliberately manipulating historical evidence as part of an ideological and racist agenda.
Holocaust deniers freely distort the historical record in order to justify anti-Semitism, racism and fascism.
Holocaust denial suffered a sharp blow as a result of the Irving v.
www.holocaustdenialontrial.org   (359 words)

  
 No Planes and No Gas Chambers: Holocaust Deniars push hoaxes that sabotage 9/11 truth movement
holocaust denial is not a neutral topic of historical inquiry, it's a lure cast by Nazi apologists for vulnerably open minds, which exploits their fresh sense of distrust of history by suggesting that this, too, must be a lie.
Holocaust denial is a severe crime in Germany and is rigorously prosecuted by the authorities.
In the case of holocaust deniers, it's quite clear what their agenda is. They can attempt to masquerade it as "legitimate research" all they want, but the way they present their "facts" always destroys any legitemacy behind that claim.
www.oilempire.us /holocaust-denial.html   (8317 words)

  
 Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence - An Interview with Deborah Lipstadt
Once the deniers have absolved the Nazis of this central accusation, their next step is usually to claim that their warfare was similar to that of the Allies.
Lipstadt notes: "Even those serious historians who consider history very subjective do not accept Holocaust denial, because it goes beyond the boundaries." She explains that, while some historians may say that Hitler was the worst murderer of the 20th century, others would assess that Stalin was as bad.
Her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press/Macmillan, 1993) is the first full length study of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust.
www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-11.htm   (3336 words)

  
 What is Holocaust Denial?
Holocaust denial is a second murder of those same six million.
Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, for example, wrote in the 1961 edition of his study, The Destruction of the European Jews, that there were two Hitler orders for the destruction of Europe's Jews: the first given in the spring of 1941, and the second shortly thereafter.
Those who advocate criminal persecution of "Holocaust deniers" seem to be still living in the world of 1946 where the Allied officials of the Nuremberg Tribunal have just pronounced their verdict.
www.ihr.org /leaflets/denial.shtml   (2081 words)

  
 Israel Launches SEO Marketing Contest Against Iran Holocaust Cartoons
Iran made Holocaust denial government policy when Iran foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in December that remarks made by the Iran president that the Nazi mass murder of Jews during World War II was a "myth" was the official Iranian government's position on the issue.
Ahmadinejad made the Holocaust remarks after stating in October that Israel should be "wiped off the map." "The Palestinians or Islamic nations can not be forced to pay for the injustices the Europeans believe they committed against the Jews," the minister said speaking at Tehran airport after a visit to Pakistan.
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
www.israelnewsagency.com /iranholocaustcartoonsisraelseo48480207.html   (2960 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Pathfinders
Also known as "Holocaust Revisionism", the individuals seeking to deny the Holocaust often have different motives and beliefs, but they all share at one point: that there was no systematic attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jewry.
The prevalence of Holocaust denial on the internet is forcing counter-deniers to enter the debate, challenging them to respond to denial claims, to examine the underlying ideologies of denial, and to expose methodological errors.
The new anti-gay Holocaust revisionism alleges that gay men were not particularly persecuted under the German Nazi regime, and additionally, that homosexual men were especially prevalent in the ranks of German Naziism, and were in large part, the motivators of the Jewish Holocaust.
www.ipl.org /div/pf/entry/48483   (3465 words)

  
 'Holocaust Denial' Laws Are Disgraceful
David Irving, the controversial British historian, was arrested in Austria on November 11 for a 16-year-old violation of that country's "Holocaust denial" statute.
On November 8, the trial in Germany of "Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel began with a dramatic clash between his attorneys and the presiding judge.
In countries where they are on the books, the Holocaust is the only chapter of history that cannot be freely discussed.
www.rense.com /general69/disg.htm   (380 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Irving expands on Holocaust views
The Austrian state prosecutor's office said it believed Irving's sentence for Holocaust denial was too lenient in light of a possible sentence of up to 10 years.
Austria is one of 11 countries with laws against denying the Holocaust.
The historian previously said that he doubted the Holocaust's existence until he saw the personal files of Adolf Eichmann, the chief organiser of the Holocaust.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/4757506.stm   (583 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Issues: Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations: Holocaust Denial   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Chemistry of Auschwitz - An analysis of the chemical arguments of Holocaust deniers, concerning Auschwitz, including refutation of Leuchter, Luftl, and Rudolf.
Leuchter was a defence witness at Ernst Zundel's Holocaust denial trial in the 1980s.
Holocaust Denial, Leuchter, and the "Leuchter Report" - Refutation of the 'The Leuchter Report'.
dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Race-Ethnic-Religious_Relations/Holocaust_Denial   (393 words)

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