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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  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
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  A short film presented by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Spread the Word:
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• EasyJet apologises for trivialising the Holocaust in in-flight magazine

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 144
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• Arrival of Imam Mahdi and Rise of Islam

  
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• Re: Collage Research Project

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
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• THE LAST TRAIN (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1973)

  
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• Re: Collage Research Project

  
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  “Earlier today the BBC reported that easyJet.com was taking immediate steps to respond to the criticism. In a statement, easyJet said it ‘profusely apologises’ to anyone who was offended by the ‘inappropriate’ shoot and said it would withdraw this month’s issue from all flights. The statement ...
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• Re: Collage Research Project

  
  Land Of the Banned — Authority: 164
  What a fuckin homo!
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• Easyjet apologises for photoshoot at Holocaust memorial

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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• Inflight Mag Apologetic Over Holocaust Memorial Fashion Shoot [Fashion Shoah]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
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• Holocaust denier says he’s ‘unbroken’ after prison

  
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