Holocaust

A holocaust is an enormous devastation or mass slaughter. Most commonly, as "the Holocaust," the term is used to refer to the extermination of six million Jews during World War Two by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party in Germany.

The terminology of the Holocaust has been a matter of debate over the decades. Though it was clearly an act of mass murder, it is even more appropriately classified as an act of genocide, as the intention was the total eradication of Jews. Surprisingly, there are many Holocaust deniers - fringe conspiracy theorists who believe the history of the Holocaust was fabricated or exaggerated.

Some have argued that anti-Jewish sentiments throughout Germany led to a willingness or complacency among Germans regarding the millions of deaths in concentration camps that were occurring in Europe during the period. Objectors to this argument suggest that it stigmatizes all Germans as Nazi sympathizers, which, they argue, is false.

 

Application of the term "holocaust" to events other than the Nazi Holocaust remains extremely controversial and a sensitive subject, especially among Holocaust survivors.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Holocaust”

• Nazi Guard Demjanjuk’s Lawyer Calls For Trial Suspension Due To ‘Poor Health’

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 517
  ( Yeshiva World )  Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk’s lawyer called Tuesday for his trial to be abandoned because of his client’s poor health and because he was cleared by Israel in an earlier case. “I call for the trial to be stopped,” Ulrich Busch told the court in the German city of Munich on the ...
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• Seven sentenced in Germany for neo-Nazi Internet radio

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 139
  . Berlin -- Seven German far-right radicals have been convicted of inciting racial hatred and violence with a neo-Nazi radio station on the Internet, a court said Tuesday. The court in Berlin found the group responsible for broadcasting European Brotherhood Radio on the web between June 2006 and March 2009 ...
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• Re: another mention on wfuck off radio

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 167
  Quote from: Bed, Baph & Beyond on December 01, 2009, 11:37:01 PM it wouldnt let me fast forward through a stream,,, is there a download link? I dont think so.
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• THE MUSLIM WORLD REACTS - MINARET BAN INDICATES INCREASINGLY RACIST AND FASCIST EUROPE

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 152
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has joined a chorus of international criticism of Switzerland’s ban on minarets, saying it refelects an increasingly racist and fascist stance in Europe. The Swiss foreign minister said the vote may pose a threat to the country’s security. A sticker saying ...
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  Occam's Razor — Authority: 116
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• Holocaust survivors testify in John Demjanjuk trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Former soldier accused of assisting mass murder Rudolf Salomon Cortissos reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a letter in a yellow envelope. He unfolded the small piece of paper once, and then again, to reveal the neatly slanting handwriting of his mother, Emmy. "Were with 2,500 people, and were going ...
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• Tweeting Tarantino

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 538
  Tweets in reverse chronological order during Q&A after Jewish community screening of Inglourious Bastards, hosted by The LA Jewish Journal , the Consulate General of Israel, and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. Q&A With: Lawrence Bender, producer of “Basterds,” producer of all Quentin ...
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• John Demjanjuk trial: we mustnt draw a line under crimes of the Holocaust

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The glib suggestion that we should leave John Demjanjuk in peace because of his age or poor health is an affront to the Holocaust Survivors, writes Greville Janner.
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• Survivors weep at trial of Nazi killer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  John Demjanjuk mercilessly and callously helped kill 27,900 Jews at Sobibor, eastern Poland, court told Survivors of the Sobibor death camp and relatives of the Jewish prisoners killed there wept in court today as the names of some of the victims were read out in the trial of the 89-year-old accused of being part of ...
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• Holocaust Denier to Represent EU at Climate Talks

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 517
  Hes right about "global warming" and wrong about the Holocaust.  Nick Griffin in 1997: Europe really knows how to pick them, eh? BNP leader Nick Griffin will represent Europe at Copenhagen climate change summit Telegraph, UK The far-right politician, who denies the existence of global warming, will ...
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• i like a chorus that goes “fuck cops, hate pigs!”i like death by stereo.

  
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  i like a chorus that goes “fuck cops, hate pigs!” i like death by stereo.
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• Bad sex award for ‘work of genius’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 1 (IANS) Acclaimed American writer Jonathan Littell has won the Literary Review’s 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a novel that judges described as a “work of genius”.The Kindly Ones, which tells the story of the Nazi Holocaust through the eyes of an executioner, won France’s highest literary ...
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• The Palestinians Believe They Have Israel in the Corner

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 538
  The boxing match continues and Israel is about to get bloodied. As I’ve written in the past few weeks , the Palestinians believe the timing is propitious for them to pursue their endgame. I believe they think their endgame – the knock-out punch that will bring about the final part of this century-old ...
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• The Last Nazi trial?

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 742
  Germany is, for the first time, trying a non-citizen for crimes committed as part of the Holocaust. John Demjanjuk, originally from Ukraine, is an 89-year-old man, retired US auto factory worker, and former US citizen who has been deported and charged with 27,900 murders for the part he may have played in World ...
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• Jew Wishes on: Not Me: A Novel, by Michael Lavigne

  
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  Not Me: A Novel, by Michael Lavigne is a completely engrossing book in my opinion. It is compelling on many levels for its underlying themes. From forgiveness and redemption to survival and the desire to go on, to identity and reinventing one’s self, Not Me is a book filled with many thought-provoking ...
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• JAI - presented by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 152
  A beautiful little mini-movie that tells a gripping story in an extraordinary way. Something never to forget, because history repeats itself.
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• Randy Ford Author- I’M NOT DEAD YET, a new novel, 150th installment

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 143
        On leaving Pagadian, Susan and I didn’t immediately feel safer.   It was on a bus, after all, where we had our encounter with the Ilaga gang.   Since then it seemed to us that there hadn’t been enough effort put into stopping these guys, for there hadn’t seemed to have been any progress the whole ...
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• I Have Never Forgotten You

  
  DJCline.com — Authority: 424
  This is a moving documentary about Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Before the war he was an architect, with good graphic design skills and a sense of humor. When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, they would not let him work in his chosen profession, live where wanted or practice his religion. ...
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• The Last Nazis

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 636
  Enormous public outcry for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals remains a fiery topic for many of those seeking justice and answers. We take a look at the most recently suspected last living Nazi war criminals on trial now.
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• John Demjanjuk should stand trial for his alleged war crimes, even if he reaches 112

  
  News World — Authority: 124
  This year saw the passing of Britain’s last World War I veterans, Harry Patch (aged 111) and Henry Allingham (aged 113). They were rightly honoured – praised for the courage they showed in their youth, and for what they represented: hundred of thousands of their generation, slaughtered on muddy battlefields almost ...
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