Holocaust revisionism

Holocaust revisionism refers to historical revisionism applied to the Holocaust. Holocaust revisionist arguments are discussed in the article on the Holocaust and many other articles. Regarding the historiography of Holocaust revisionism, the history of the Holocaust revisionist movement itself, see the "External links" section. A related topic is the various efforts to counteract Holocaust revisionism. See Anti-Holocaust revisionism.

What revisionists have stated

According to prominent revisionist Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson, there are three controversial central "themes" of Holocaust revisionism.

1. No Extermination Order: There was no extermination order issued by Hitler or anyone else. There is no proof for this at all, in all the millions of internal documents seized after the war.
2. No One Was "Gassed": There were no gassings of human beings at Auschwitz or anywhere else. There is a good deal of technical and forensic evidence against this claim. It has repeatedly been demolished been various revisionists from various angles, including in chemical analysis first in the famous Leuchter Report and then in the Rudolf Report, as well as in a Polish government forensic examination.
3. The Six-Million Fraud: The "Six-Million" figure is an absurd exaggeration. It is actually technically impossible, because there were never six-million Jews under German control during the war.

Absurd claims about holocaust revisionism

Claim	Fact
They deny, that Jews were persecuted.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that Jews were deprived of civil rights.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that Jews were deported.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that Jews were herded into ghettos.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny the existence of concentration camps.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny that Jews were put to forced labor.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny the existence of crematoria in concentration camps.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that Jews and others died for a great number of reasons: epidemics, malnutrition, diseases, mistreatment.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that other minorities, political dissenters, communists and Gypsies were also persecuted.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny, that the treatment of Jews could have been unjust.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny the victims of the war their dignity.	False: They do not deny this.
They deny to show compassion for the victims.	False: They do not deny this.
They affirm, there was no plan to murder all Jews.	Correct: This is what they claim.
They affirm, Jews were not murdered systematically.	Correct: This is what they claim.
They affirm, there was no existence of gas chambers used for mass murder.	Correct: This is what they claim.
They affirm, six million Jews did not die in the Holocaust.	Correct: This is what they claim.

Quotes

• “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Edward Sagan, in "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", 1996

Further reading

• The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry, by Arthur Butz
• The Rudolf Report: Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the 'Gas Chambers' of Auschwitz, by Germar Rudolf
• Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of 'Truth' and 'Memory,' by Germar Rudolf (as Ernst Gauss [ed.])

See also

• Holocaust denial
• The Victories of Revisionism

External links

• A Brief History of Holocaust Revisionism
  • see also here
• Milestones of Revisionism
• A Chronicle of Holocaust Revisionism

Article archives

• CODOH: Self-perception

Personalities

• CODOH: Revisionist Personalities
• The League of Extraordinary Revisionists
• Revionists.com