Holocaust denial

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Holocaust denial is a pseudohistorical ideology that falsely claims the Nazi genocide of six million Jews and other groups during World War II did not occur as documented, often for antisemitic or extremist political purposes.

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Holocaust denial canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf antisemitic propaganda
conspiracy theory
historical negationism
pseudohistorical ideology
aimsTo promote antisemitic narratives
relativize Nazi crimes
undermine historical truth about the Holocaust
associatedWith antisemitism
far-right extremism
neo-Nazism
racism
white supremacism
characterizedAs hate speech
historical distortion
intellectual dishonesty
pseudoscience
condemnedBy Council of Europe
European Union
United Nations
contradictedBy Allied military records
Nazi documentation
forensic evidence
overwhelming historical evidence
photographic evidence
postwar war crimes trials
survivor testimonies
criminalizedIn Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
Switzerland
other European countries
denies Holocaust
Nazi genocide of Roma and other groups
genocide of six million Jews
systematic Nazi extermination of Jews
motivatedBy antisemitic ideology
conspiracy thinking
delegitimization of Jews
extremist political purposes
rehabilitation of Nazism
oftenIncludes claims of Allied or Jewish propaganda
claims of forged documents
denial of extermination camps
denial of gas chambers
minimization of death tolls
propagatedBy denialist publishers
extremist organizations
online platforms
rejectedBy Holocaust museums
Jewish organizations
international courts
major academic institutions
professional historians

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David Irving ideology Holocaust denial