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1 -{{gold}}[[File:HolocaustDenial.jpg|right|165px|thumb|Graffiti promoting Holocaust denialism. Note the dollar signs hinting at [[antisemitic]] [[International Jewish conspiracy|conspiracy theories]].]]{{Nazism}}
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2 2  {{cquote|A school of historians and polemicists has sprung up, which for political reasons is bent on [[Denialism|denying the truth]] of the story of the Holocaust. Present day revisionists continue this tradition. They are the academic equivalent of the [[neo-Nazi]] thugs. […] Unfortunately, the fabrications of the "[[Pseudohistory|revisionists]]" have fallen on fertile ground in a [[Europe]] where [[Blood_libel|the old lies]] of [[anti-Semitic]] [[propaganda]] and [[The_Protocols_of_the_Learned_Elders_of_Zion|old forgeries]] are once again being circulated, and indeed were never wholly eradicated.|||{{wpl|Stuart Hood}} and professor<ref>[https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff81590.php Haim Bresheeth] Centre for Media Studies, School of Arts, SOAS, University of London</ref> Haim Bresheeth, ''Introducing The Holocaust: A Graphic Guide''<ref>''Introducing The Holocaust: A Graphic Guide'', Icon Books, 2013, ISBN: 978-184831-514-3, page 160-161</ref>}}
3 3  {{cquote|It has been said that denial is the final stage of genocide … memory is all that is left and is targeted as the last victim. Complete annihilation of a people requires the banishment of recollection and suffocation of remembrance.|||{{w|Richard G. Hovannisian||,}} American historian and professor, ''Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the [[Armenian genocide|Armenian Genocide]]''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiBHkRtRmIIC |title=Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide |date=1998 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-2777-7}}</ref>{{rp|201–202}}<ref>{{wpa|Genocide denial}}</ref>}}
4 4  '''Holocaust denial''' (or '''Holocaust negationism'''; also sometimes mistakenly called "'''Holocaust revisionism'''"{{efn|"[[Historical revisionism]]" most usually refers to mainstream research that accepts evidence, and often presents new analysis or evidence to challenge prior works by other historians. When the term is applied to the Holocaust, this may be what is meant, but it can also be a mistaken way of referring to Holocaust denial. In any case, Holocaust deniers who are presented as "historical revisionists" are those that attempt to "revise" history using a fatally flawed base of (or lack of) evidence and reasoning.}}) refers to the assertion that the [[Holocaust]] (often called the '''"Holohoax"''' or some similar derivative to the same effect by deniers) perpetrated by [[Nazi Germany]], other [[Axis]] powers, and their collaborators in occupied [[Europe]] during the [[Second World War]] (1939-1945) never happened ("classical" [[denial]]), or happened vastly differently from the "official" story (distortion). Like most [[conspiracy theories]], it takes many forms; however, the claims generally fall into a few categories: