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'''Holocaust denial''' is the assertion that the Nazis either did not attempt to exterminate the [[Jews]] (as well as political opponets, Gypsies, Catholics and other Christian church members opposed to his policies) during [[World War II]], or deny that Hilter gave the order to do so. The view point has no support amongst any significant scholars. This denial is probably a result of a growing number of [[Existentialism|existentialist]] thinkers who refer to history as simply a myth.

'''Holocaust denial''' is the assertion that the Nazis either did not attempt to exterminate the [[Jews]] (as well as political opponents, Gypsies, Catholics and other Christian church members opposed to his policies, homosexuals, mentally retarded) during [[World War II]], or deny that Hilter gave the order to do so. The view point has no support amongst any significant scholars. This denial is partly a result of a growing number of [[Existentialism|existentialist]] thinkers who refer to history as simply a myth as well as the result of the efforts of right-wing history revisionists <ref>http://www.revisionists.com/</ref>.

 

As denial of the holocaust is unfactual, another common strategy of history revisionism is to relativate the holocaust by comparing it to other genocides, the death toll of Germans in WWII or the number of abortions.

One of its main purposes is to discredit the establishment of the nation of [[Israel]] in 1948. Questioning the historicity of the Holocaust is considered gravely offensive to Jews <ref>http://skepdic.com/holocaustdenial.html</ref>, and anti-Semitic in nature. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in a number of European countries. Recently, [[historical revisionist]] Ernst Zündel was sentenced in Germany to five years in prison for Holocaust denial. <ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,466785,00.html</ref>

One of its main purposes is to discredit the establishment of the nation of [[Israel]] in 1948. Questioning the historicity of the Holocaust is considered gravely offensive to Jews <ref>http://skepdic.com/holocaustdenial.html</ref>, and anti-Semitic in nature. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in a number of European countries. Recently, [[historical revisionist]] Ernst Zündel was sentenced in Germany to five years in prison for Holocaust denial. <ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,466785,00.html</ref>