Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is an epithet invented by Jews during the early 1980s, to describe a thought criminal who rejects or actively debunks the story that six-million Jews were gassed during the Second World War and turned into soap or lamp-shades.
Because Jews have constructed their framing of the "Holocaust" to describe Jewish casualties in the Second World War, as part of an arsenal which enables them to maintain a hegemony in international political and economic matters, heretics who dissent from the religious orthodoxy of Holocaustianity have been persecuted (in some countries physically incarcerated) and attacked in psychological warfare with a barrage of epithets.
It is therefore the politically correct term for Holocaust revisionism. Regarding the term itself, see the article on Anti-Holocaust revisionism and in particular the section "The term "Holocaust denial" and straw man revisionism".
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History
The term arose as a form of damage limitation in response to revisionist scholars beginning to debunk the construct that the Jews had created in the 1970s, based loosely on Soviet propaganda by Ilya Ehrenburg, Vasily Grossman and others. There are several contenders to the actual coining of the phrase, which appeared around 1982—1984 in Jewish circles.
The 1983 edition of The Holocaust Denial, a book published by Pluto Press—previously the publishing arm of the Trotskyist SWP— by Gill Seidel, both a critical theory feminist and a Zionist is a strong contender, certainly the mainstreaming piece. She claimed revisionism is a "symbolic genocide of world Jewry".[1]
The word 'denier'
One denies things, that he knows, it happened, but he does not want to tell others. For example, someone steals a piece of chocolate in a shop, and eats it, without paying for it. If the personal asks "did you steal a piece of chocolate"- the thief answers with "no", and doing that he denies the fact, that he stole a piece of chocolate.
However, let us assume, there exists another person, who was not in the shop, or was in the shop, but did not care about the thief. If we ask this person: "Did XY steal a piece of chocolate some minutes ago?", he can not deny the theft, because he does not know about it.
An other person, who saw, that XY was in a completely other place, and not in the shop, when the theft happened, also can not deny the theft, because he knows, it could not have happened.
Therefore persons, who argue, the so called holocaust could not happened, because facts and laws of physics suggest, it could not have happened, can not deny it, because one can only deny things, he is certain, they happened.
Rise of the ‘deniers’
Over the years the Holocaust story has been challenged by brave individuals who have risked ridicule, loss of position, and imprisonment in their defense of the truth. Those who have taken this stand bring the public’s attention to this issue in a way scholarly books and articles can not. Ernst Zündel and David Irving have been imprisoned in Canada, Germany and Austria for challenging Holocaust laws.
More recently Bishop Richard Williamson has been told by Pope Benedict XVI to recant his skepticism of Holocaust claims.[2] The public is beginning to ask itself why this issue is so important that people must be imprisoned and denounced for not believing the official story.
- "To learn who rules over you, find out who you are not allowed to criticize." — Eric Dale, Norwegian activist from Bergen, 21 April 2026
List of countries banning "Holocaust denial" (2025)
Holocaust denial is illegal in 20 nations with specific laws criminalizing it (18 in Europe, plus Canada and Israel). These laws generally prohibit public denial, gross minimization, justification, or approval of the Holocaust, often with penalties ranging from fines to several years in prison. Many of these laws also tie into broader prohibitions on incitement to hatred, disturbance of the public peace, or genocide denial.
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
Under Article 419a of the Bulgarian Criminal Code (amended 2011), it is only punishable (by 1–5 years imprisonment) if the denial justifies, denies, or grossly palliates crimes against peace/humanity and thereby poses a risk of violence or incites hatred based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc. In other words, simple denial or expression of the view, without the incitement element, is not criminalized.
A few other countries have similar conditional rules (illegal only when it incites hatred/violence or discrimination), including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Greece, Montenegro, and Portugal. These are distinct from the dedicated Holocaust denial bans above. Many more countries have general hate-speech or genocide-denial laws that could be applied to Holocaust denial in certain contexts (e.g., Australia treats it as ambiguous under racial vilification rules), but they do not specifically criminalize it as the countries listed do. In places like the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Japan, Latvia, Serbia, and Spain, Holocaust denial remains fully legal and protected as free speech.
These laws are often defended as "necessary to combat antisemitism and prevent the spread of NS ideology", but they remain very controversial among free-speech advocates who argue they restrict historical inquiry and expression.
Quotes
- Let’s support Georges Theil who, along with a few others – Robert Faurisson, Ernst Zündel, Germar Rudolf, Sylvia Stolz, Wolfgang Fröhlich, Fredrick Toben, Vincent Reynouard – has chosen to be at the forefront of the highly risky struggle against a hoax and slander and, let it be plainly said, for our survival.[3]
See also
- Jewish casualties in the Second World War
- International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust
External links
- What is Holocaust Denial? by Barbara Kulaszka
- Holocaust-Denial Literature: A Fourth Bibliography
