Holocaust denial

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**Holocaust denial**, or **Holocaust distortion**, is the false belief that the Holocaust did not happen, or was not as bad as it was. Holocaust deniers make false claims like these:
* They say that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis never planned to kill all the Jews of Europe, and that the Nazis only wanted to deport them.
* They say that the gas chambers built in the Nazi death camps were not used for mass murder; or they say that the whole idea of a gas chamber is impossible, so there couldn't have been any.
* They say that way less than six million Jews were killed, and that only a few hundred thousand died (often saying 271k).
* They say that documents and other evidence from the war period are fake documents and were made up by the Allies after the war.
* They say that Jews support what the deniers call a "Holocaust myth" in order to get money or political support for Israel or for themselves.
There is very strong and clear evidence that all these claims by Holocaust deniers are false.

## Background
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Various groups and organisations use different definitions of what Holocaust denial is. One of these is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

According to the IHRA definition, a trend of Holocaust denial, some state-sponsored, is seen in other European countries, including Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Germany, In the book *Decoding Antisemitism*, co-author Hagen Troschke said that the common strategies of such denial consisted of:

# Making some Holocaust perpetrators look better than they were
# Reducing the Holocaust responsibility to a small group of perpetrators
# Blaming Jews for the Holocaust amid the rise of nationalism across Europe, Such denial is sometimes rooted in the conspiracy theory that the focus on Jews is an EU plot to suppress national identity and promote "cosmopolitanism" and "multiculturalism".

## Definition
Holocaust denial includes denying that the Holocaust ever happened, and also any of the following acts: They may suggest that the Holocaust did not go far enough in accomplishing its goal of “the Final Solution of the Jewish Question”;
# Attempts to blur the responsibility for the establishment of concentration and death camps devised and operated by Nazi Germany by putting blame on other nations or ethnic groups.

For instance, someone acknowledging that the Holocaust happened while denying the Nazi use of poison gas in the death camps is also a Holocaust denier.

## Denialist claims
Below is a summary of usual claims made by Holocaust deniers.

## Tactics
## Just Asking Questions
Just Asking Questions (JAQ) is a pseudoskeptical tactic often employed by Holocaust deniers to promote lies about the Holocaust by phrasing them as questions.

### Sealioning
As a similar concept to JAQ, sealioning refers to the act of repeating the same questions that have already been answered while faking ignorance and politeness. It is also a common tactic among Holocaust deniers on online forums and social media.

## Rebuttal
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Historians agree that the Holocaust happened and that Holocaust deniers use bad research, get things wrong, and sometimes make facts up to support their claims. Their usual claim is that the Holocaust is "a hoax made up by Jewish people working together." It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in Israel and in many European countries, especially in Germany. Some Holocaust deniers, like Ernst Zündel, have been charged with crimes.

### Prominent Holocaust deniers
## Related pages
* International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
* Holodomor denial
* Deborah Lipstadt

## Footnotes
## References