Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II—usually referred to as the Holocaust—did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by current scholarship.

Key elements of this claim are the rejection of any of the following:

• that the Nazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting Jews and people of Jewish ancestry for extermination as a people;
• that between five and seven million Jews were systematically killed by the Nazis and their allies; and
• that genocide was carried out at extermination camps using tools of mass murder, such as gas chambers.

Holocaust deniers do not accept the term "denial" as an appropriate description of their point of view, and use the term Holocaust revisionism instead. Scholars, however, prefer the term "denial" to differentiate Holocaust deniers from historical revisionists, who use established historical methodologies.

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