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==Proliferation to UK==

==Proliferation to UK==

His claims were taken up by the British homosexual/pedophile campaigner [[Peter Tatchell]] who is also not a historian, and has no qualifications in research of any kind. He has a BA in sociology from a polytechnic. Tatchell used his website and newspaper articles to promulgate the myth and make it fashionable. In 2001, Tatchell denounced some of the leading historians of World War II because they did not subscribe to the Homocaust myth. He denounced Professor Sir Martin Gilbert (Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and acclaimed author of 88 books on WW2) and the late William Shirer (author of the classic ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'', who lived in Berlin during the war) because they take a different view. As evidence Tatchell offered a film "Paragraph 175", about homosexual survivors of the Nazi era, which hardly supported the view that they had been exterminated. Many of those featured were in fact Jewish. In reply to Tatchell's claims, the expert historian Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, defended Sir Martin and said: "The word Holocaust refers to the specific Nazi intention to annihilate the Jews, and only the Jews. No other group of people was singled out in this way to be systematically wiped out..."  

His claims were taken up by the British homosexual/pedophile campaigner [[Peter Tatchell]] who is also not a historian, and has no qualifications in research of any kind. He has a BA in sociology from a polytechnic. Tatchell used his website and newspaper articles to promulgate the myth and make it fashionable. In 2001, Tatchell denounced some of the leading historians of World War II because they did not subscribe to the Homocaust myth. He denounced Professor Sir Martin Gilbert (Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and acclaimed author of 88 books on WW2) and the late William Shirer (author of the classic ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'', who lived in Berlin during the war) because they take a different view. As evidence Tatchell offered a film "Paragraph 175", about homosexual ''survivors'' of the Nazi era, which hardly supported the view that they had been exterminated. Many of those featured were in fact Jewish. In reply to Tatchell's claims, the expert historian Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, defended Sir Martin and said: "The word Holocaust refers to the specific Nazi intention to annihilate the Jews, and only the Jews. No other group of people was singled out in this way to be systematically wiped out..."  

<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/16/research.humanities</ref>

<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/16/research.humanities</ref>