The Holocaust facts: Nazi genocide of six million Jews confirmed

Despite this, some resistance ... of genocide in a markedly small period of time, so much so that nearly 25% of all Jewish victims of the Holocaust were murdered during 3 months of Operation Reinhard in 1942....

Dr. Blewett’s research has contributed to the historical record by “widening that lens on complicity” and showing how the Nazis weaponized documentation, said Christine Schmidt, the acting co-director of the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.

From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in ...

The Holocaust—the systematic ... no single document which lists the names of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were murdered....

Holocaust denial and distortion are historically incorrect, and factually wrong, and constitute a significant threat to morality and human dignity, and to the prospects of reconciliation and peace between Palestinians and Israelis. In a speech delivered at the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's ...

The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate murder of approximately six million European Jews and at least five million prisoners of war. Learn more.

Table 1. Breakdown and explanation of how six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust · There is no single Nazi German document that accounts for every death in the Holocaust.

Common distortions include, for example, assertions that the figure of six million Jewish deaths is an exaggeration and that the diary of Anne Frank is a forgery. Learn more about the facts of the Holocaust below.

French cartoonist Zeon won the second international Iranian Holocaust-denial contest in 2016 with this cartoon, “Shoah Business”. In the face of extensive credible evidence — volumes of governmental documents, thousands of eyewitness testimonies, firsthand admissions of guilt, photographs, film footage, meticulous written records, museums’ worth of artifacts, not to mention the remains of the concentration camps, gas chambers and crematoria themselves — there are ongoing efforts to distort, disprove and conceal the facts of the Holocaust.1Robert Solomon Wistrich, “Introduction: Lying About the Holocaust,” in Robert Solomon Wistrich, ed., Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy (Jerusalem and Berlin: Hebrew University Magnus Press & De Gruyter, 2012), 1-2.