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”

• Easyjet apologises for photoshoot at Holocaust memorial

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 433
  Easyjet apologises for photoshoot at Holocaust memorial : Who the hell arranges a fashion shoot at a Holocaust memorial ?
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• USHMM: June workshop, Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 435
  A June 2010 workshop on Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust will take place at the USHMM in Washington, DC. The application deadline is November 23 (see below). It is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) which is seeking applications for ...
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• Denialism and moral equivalence

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 526
  Clive Hamilton wrote a piece for Crikey earlier this week in which he likened those who deny climate change to those who deny the Holocaust. He said: We think of Holocaust deniers as being immoral because we suspect them of being motivated by anti-Semitism or a desire for political advancement through stirring ...
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• Inflight Mag Apologetic Over Holocaust Memorial Fashion Shoot [Fashion Shoah]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  EasyJet has apologized for a fashion shoot at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial that appeared in their inflight magazine . So much for all that academic handwringing about the aestheticization of the Holocaust. The magazine didnt have permission to shoot at the Memorial, but apparently it wasnt hard to sneak by ...
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• EasyJet apologizes for Holocaust fashion shoot

  
  Gadling — Authority: 693
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Europe , Germany , Airlines , News EasyJet has apologized to everyone who will listen over a fashion shoot that appeared in its inflight magazine. Did the models wear too little? Did they look like fourteen year-old cokeheads? No, none of the usual stuff; they ...
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• FACEBOOK: Profiles of Holocaust victims (dead Jews) welcome. Profiles of living Jewish activists are not?

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 491
  Holocaust victims who are no longer living (click here to read a story about it and here to see the fake profile ) are welcome on Facebook but the founder of the JIDF - who is very much alive and trying to do good - cannot be on Facebook? On Yom Kippur it appeared to us that Facebook was going to clamp down ...
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• Holocaust denier says he’s ‘unbroken’ after prison

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 145
  . Dr. Fredrick Toben SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- A Holocaust denier released from an Australian jail after publishing material offensive to Jews says he is "unbroken" and "unrepentant." Dr. Fredrick Toben, the founder of the Adelaide Institute, emerged from three months in a South Australia prison on ...
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• Holocuast Memorial Fashion Shoot Was Probably Not A Good Idea

  
  The Awl — Authority: 732
  Never forget: “The airline easyJet is withdrawing all copies of its in-flight magazine, easyJet Traveller , after a row erupted over a tasteless fashion shoot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin…. The latest issue of the in-flight magazine featured two unsanctioned photographs of models posing in designer ...
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• Easyjet in in-flight Holocaust gaffe shame

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 570
  By Oliver Farrimond EASYJET have been forced into an embarrassing apology after printing a Holocaust gaffe in their in-flight magazine. The budget airline published racy photographs of models posing in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin – without permission from the memorial’s owners. The saucy shoot sees ...
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• Re: so i went to an icp concert

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
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• Re: big bag of shit

  
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• The Essential Suitcase

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 493
  In my book, I talk about the fact that sentimental objects can have a very powerful effect on people. Such objects are deemed to have an essential quality that is integral and irreplaceable. One of the most moving stories I describe is of the bizarre events surrounding a suitcase. Michel Levi-Leleu last saw his ...
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• Re: How to be a Juggalo!

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
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• Reasons To Remember The Holocaust….60 Years Later…..

  
  Best Of Joanne — Authority: 126
  In Memorium — 60 Years Later Courtesy of MckLinky Stuff – FREE! It deeply concerns me that history is already being erased thanks to the school system in Britain.The youth of today really need to know what happened during the years of WWII…otherwise they will never know the atrocities that happened in the ...
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• Revealed! David Irving Can Be a Jerk

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 575
  So secretive is Holocaust denier David Irving that he often doesn’t reveal the locations of his lectures until hours before they’re scheduled to begin — and even then, he only tells vetted guests. It must have been a blow, therefore, when his private E-mails appeared on the Internet, courtesy of self-described ...
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• Re: Juggalo War Journal

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
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• RASHEVSKI’S TANGO (Sam Garbarski, 2003)

  
  Dennis Grunes — Authority: 135
  “Believe me, it hurts being a Jew.” — Antoine, 40, lying in a hospital bed after being circumcised, part of the process of his conversion to Judaism It isn’t always clear what precisely “being Jewish” means. Lawyer Antoine wishes to convert because he is in love with Nina, who wants to marry somebody ...
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• Re: Juggalo War Journal

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
  Stopped in Louisville before I headed into Lynchburg and raided Jack Tillfords Discount Guns. Picked up a new shotgun and some ammo. Now I feel a little safer, carrying two guns, a butterfly knife and a taser I found in the Charger. As I was stepping ...
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• Revealed! David Irving Can Be a Jerk

  
  Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center — Authority: 580
  So secretive is Holocaust denier David Irving that he often doesn’t reveal the locations of his lectures until hours before they’re scheduled to begin — and even then, he only tells vetted guests. It must have been a blow, therefore, when his private E-mails appeared on the Internet, courtesy of self-described ...
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• DEALING WITH ANTI-SEMITISM FROM NEOCON/ZIONIST DISTORTED IDEOLOGY

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  I just posted the following comment over on OpEdNews on the post there entitled, " Dealing with Anti-Semitism from a Jewish Perspective ." When I saw the headline of this article, I thought to myself, does he mean anti-Semites or anti-Jews or anti-Zionists as in anti-Jabotinsky-type terrorists? I see now that you ...
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