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'''Holocaust denial''' is a belief, a subterfuge, that the Nazi [[Holocaust]] did not occur, or occurred to a lesser extent than believed by the preponderance of scholars. Holocaust deniers assert that the Nazis did not attempt to exterminate the [[Jews]] (as well as political opponents, Gypsies, Catholics and other Christian church members opposed to his policies, mentally retarded individuals, homosexuals, etc.) during [[World War II]].
The holocaust denial view point has no support amongst any significant number of 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 history revisionists and anti-Zionists.
As denial of the holocaust is nonfactual, another common strategy of history revisionism is to relativate the holocaust by comparing it to other genocides, the death toll of Germans in WWII, persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, 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>
Recently, Iranian president [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], who has made many public statements condemning Israel and Jews in general, has questioned the existence of the Holocaust and hosted a conference designed to cast doubt on the idea of its historicity. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236014,00.html</ref>
== Holocaust Denial in Japan ==
A base of anti-semitism is observable in the liberal news medias of [[Japan]] in which news sources ''([[Shukanshi]])'' including the popular ''Shukan Bunshun'' has repeatedly published articles denying the German holocaust of European Jews<ref>Adam Gamble & Takesato Watanabe - ''A Public Betrayed - An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West'', 2004.</ref>.
==Countries where Holocaust denial is illegal==
*Austria
*Belgium
*Czech Republic
*France
*Germany
*Israel
*Lithuania
*Poland
*Slovakia
*Switzerland
==References==
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[[category:politics]]
==See also==
*[[anti-Semitism]]