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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.

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.

As denial of the holocaust is nonfactual, another common strategy of history revisionism is to use relativism 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. In 2007, a German court sentenced notorious [[historical revisionist]] and denier Ernst Zündel to five years in prison for "incitement of racial hatred." <ref>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/01/zundel-release.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. In 2007, a German court sentenced notorious [[historical revisionist]] and denier Ernst Zündel to five years in prison for "incitement of racial hatred." <ref>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/01/zundel-release.html</ref>

[[Category: politics]]

[[Category: politics]]

[[Category: Morons]]

[[Category: Lunatics]]

==See also==

==See also==

*[[anti-Semitism]]

*[[anti-Semitism]]