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.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “holocaust”

 

• NAZIS ON THE RUN

  
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  by Yvette Alt Miller What happened to the Nazis after World War II? How many Nazi officials who sent millions of Jews and others to their deaths paid a penalty? How many Nazis evaded justice and resumed ordinary life, late or never acknowledging their crimes, or paying for the misery they caused? While the ...
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• ‘Most wanted’ WWII criminal charged aged 98

  
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  | | Related Israel PM opens Holocaust exhibition at Auschwitz 13/06/2013 16:55 CET Hungarians protest against growing anti-Semitism 22/04/2013 07:20 CET Hungary detains 1956 war crimes suspect 11/09/2012 07:32 CET Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in Hungary ...
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• Does God Hate Sinners?

  
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  In their zeal to defend God’s sovereignty many blogists have joined renowned Calvinists in their campaign against sinners by categorically declaring that Christians should hate non-believers (non-elect sinners). Before you read this article I suggest that you first read and open letter John Pedersen wrote to one of ...
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• Nazi SS Commander Found Living in Minnesota

  
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  Polish prosecutors have pledged to help U.S. investigators bring to justice a 94-year-old man living in Minnesota, who is accused of being a former commander of a Nazi SS unit responsible for killing scores of women and children during World War II.A lengthy investigation across six countries led the Associated Press ...
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• Why is the Holocaust more memorable/significant than events such as the Rape of Nanking/Nanjing Massacre?

  
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  It just confuses me how little people know of the Nanjing Massacre (which was horrific), and yet virtually everyone knows of the Holocaust? Someone please help clarify this for me!
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• 3 Articles; What to watch for as “election day” unfolds in Iran — and meet the “candidates.”; * War clouds rising: Netanyahu, visiting Auschwitz today, vows Israel will prevent a nuclear Holocaust by Iran.; * Death toll in Syria now tops 93,000. Is judgm

  
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  From Flash Traffic Blog WordPress.Com What to watch for as “election day” unfolds in Iran — and meet the “candidates.” by joelcrosenberg Three of the candidates for Iran’s elections described as frontrunners: From left, Saeed Jalili, Hassan Rouhani ...
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• German Woman’s WWII-Era Diary Shows How Citizens Turned Blind-Eye to Nazi Crimes

  
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  Nazi Propaganda, Bund Deutscher Osten - nazi poster 1935. Photo: wikipedia.org. The diary of a young German woman’s experiences during WWII is finally seeing the light of day, and it may offer new insight into the all-too average day-to-day lives of war-era Germans, Der Spiegel reports. Brigitte Eicke was just a ...
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• Who Killed The Syrian Peace Talks?

  
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  The long awaited Syrian peace talks — instigated by power brokers Russia and the United States — had already passed their initial due date, and are now officially stillborn. The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to ...
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• Report: Top Nazi Commander Has Been in U.S. Since 1949

  
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  Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp cheer the soldiers of the Eleventh Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation in May 1945. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration. CBS/AP – A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with ...
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• Nazi Butcher Living In Minnesota Since 1949

  
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  Why am I not surprised? I’m not surprised because the northern midwest has always been a hotbed of Jew hatred (witness the Charles Lindbergh wing at the Minneapolis airport, why not just put up a George Wallace wing?), and there have been stories all my life about how the Scandinavians (Nordics, Aryans) in the ...
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• Amanda Bynes Is Letting The Holocaust Tear Her Love Life Apart??

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Until today, we didn’t know that Jewish people were against marrying German people. But according to Amanda Bynes, due to her Jewish roots, any German blood in a potential lover is a deal breaker!! She took to Twitter to reveal her marital revelation: I could ...
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• Prime Minister Netanyahu was present at the dedication of Bloc...

  
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  Prime Minister Netanyahu was present at the dedication of Bloc 27 at the Auschwitz concentration camp today. Part of the text of his speech is above. He’s right.
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• Netanyahu helps dedicate upgraded Holocaust exhibit at Auschwitz

  
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  OSWIECIM, Poland — For decades, the Communist-era memorial to Jewish victims at the barracks known as Block 27 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex of Nazi death camps stood dilapidated and mostly ignored. Read full article >>         Middle East News: News and Headlines from Iraq, Iran, ...
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• Netanyahu Visits Auschwitz

  
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  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opened a Holocaust exhibition at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp site in southern Poland June 13 2013.
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• Diary of a Hitler Aide Resurfaces After a Hunt That Lasted Years

  
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  The journal of Alfred Rosenberg, dating from 1936 through 1944, was lost but never forgotten, and federal investigators have tracked it down.        
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• The AP: Spinning even the Holocaust

  
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  The AP does it again. There simply is not a single thing that the AP can’t spin against Israel, especially when it comes to Netanyahu. Compare these two leads. First, the article that I presume was the original AP release: In a defiant speech from the place that symbolizes the suffering of Jews during World ...
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• Amanda Bynes Is Letting The Holocaust Tear Her Love Life Apart??

  
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  Until today, we didn’t know that Jewish people were against marrying German people. But according to Amanda Bynes , due to her Jewish roots, any German blood in a potential lover is a deal breaker!! She took to Twitter to reveal her marital revelation: I could never marry a German because Im Jewish — ...
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• Twilight for the Jews of Sweden?

  
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  Rabbi Namdar of Chabad of Sweden. On Sunday June, 2, 2013  several pro-Israel rallies , parades and other events took place  around the world . But the celebration in Stockholm, Sweden organized by the Zionist Federation of Sweden (ZF),  The World Zionist Organization of Israel (WZO), and local activists ...
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• If only he listened to what he said

  
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  Prime Minister Netanyahu was present at the dedication of Bloc 27 at the Auschwitz concentration camp today. Part of the text of his speech is above. Hes right.So why is he preventing Israel from securing the future of its capital?
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• Israels PM gives defiant speech at Auschwitz

  
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  In a defiant speech from the place that symbolizes the suffering of Jews during World War II, Israels prime minister warned on Thursday that the Jewish state will do everything to prevent another Holocaust and to defend itself against any threat. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke during the inauguration of a new pavilion at ...
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