Holocaust denier denial is a form of genocide denial drawing on antisemitic conspiracy theories that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust denier, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration.
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Holocaust denier denial is considered a serious societal problem in many places where it occurs, and it is illegal in Israel and many European countries.
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Holocaust denier'storians are constantly engaged in historical revision is certainly correct; however, what historians do is very different from this advertisement.
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Holocaust denier'storians have documented evidence that as Germany's defeat became imminent and Nazi leaders realized they would most likely be captured and brought to trial, great effort was made to destroy all evidence of mass extermination.
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One of the earliest efforts to save historical record of the Holocaust denier occurred during the war, in France, where Drancy internment camp records were carefully preserved and turned over to the new National Office for Veterans and Victims of War; however, the bureau then held them in secret, refusing to release copies later, even to the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation .
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Holocaust denier claimed that in order to justify the "horrors and evils of the Second World War", the Allies made the Nazis the "scapegoat" for their own misdeeds.
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Holocaust denier published numerous articles, letters, and books on Holocaust denial, quickly building a loyal following.
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Holocaust denier published his conclusions along with much of the underlying evidence in his 1989 book, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers.
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Holocaust denier was convicted at trial before the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench.
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Holocaust denier was fired from his teaching position shortly afterward.
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The Holocaust denier historian Raul Hilberg was a witness for the prosecution at the 1985 trial.
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Holocaust denier's conviction was overturned in 1992 when the Supreme Court of Canada declared the "false news" law unconstitutional.
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Nolte himself, though he has never denied the occurrence of the Holocaust denier, has claimed that the Wannsee Conference of 1942 never happened and that the minutes of the conference were post-war forgeries done by "biased" Jewish historians designed to discredit Germany.
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Denials of the Holocaust denier have been promoted by various Middle Eastern figures and media.
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Holocaust denier denial is sponsored by some Middle Eastern governments, including Iran and Syria.
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The Holocaust denier was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind.
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The Holocaust denier was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it.
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Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently denied the Holocaust denier, formally 'questioning' the reliability of the historical evidence, although he on occasion confirmed belief in it.
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Since the end of the war, Serbian collaboration in the Holocaust denier has been the subject of historical revisionism by Serbian leaders.
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In France, Holocaust denier denial became more prominent in the 1990s as negationnisme, though the movement has existed in ultra-left French politics since at least the 1960s, led by figures such as Pierre Guillaume .
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Elements of the extreme far-right in France have begun to build on each other's negationist arguments, which often span beyond the Holocaust denier to cover a range of antisemitic views, incorporating attempts to tie the Holocaust denier to the Biblical massacre of the Canaanites, critiques of Zionism, and other material fanning what has been called a "conspiratorial Judeo-phobia" designed to legitimize and "banalize" antisemitism.
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Holocaust denier's was sentenced to ten months while Alfred Schaefer, convicted, received a sentence of three years and two months.
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Holocaust denier was "familiar with historical evidence", she wrote, and "bends it until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda".
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Holocaust denier denial is the work of bigots; we must reject their false claims whenever, wherever and by whomever they are made.
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Primary motivation for most deniers is anti-Semitism, and for them the Holocaust is an infuriatingly inconvenient fact of history.
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Holocaust denier denial is widely viewed as failing to adhere to principles for the treatment of evidence that mainstream historians regard as basic to rational inquiry.
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Holocaust denier was well documented by the bureaucracy of the Nazi government itself.
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Opponents of Holocaust denier denial have documented numerous instances in which such evidence was altered or manufactured .
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Holocaust denier denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 17 countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Switzerland.
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Romania officially denied the Holocaust denier occurred on its territory up until the Wiesel Commission in 2004.
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