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What Happened

• The Roots and Rise
  • What the Holocaust Was and What It Was Not
  • The First World War Connection
  • The Weimar Republic
• The Persecution Begins
  • Pre-War Antisemitism and Nazi Ideology 1933 to 1939
  • The Nuremberg Laws
  • Kristallnacht 1938
  • The Évian Conference 1938
  • The Haavara Agreement
  • The Kindertransport
• The Killing Begins
  • The Shift from Persecution to Systematic Murder
  • The Concentration Camps
    • The Long Roots of European Antisemitism
    • From Internment Camps to Death Camps
    • Types of Camps
    • Full List of All Camps
    • Major Concentration Camps
    • The Arrival Process and Selection
    • The Tattooing of Prisoners
    • The Psychology of Survival
    • The Experience Inside the Camps
    • The Experience of Children in the Camps
    • The Fate of Twins
    • The Four Women of Auschwitz
    • Sexual Violence in the Camps
    • Pregnancy in the Camps
    • Sanitation and Disease
    • Food and Starvation
    • The Sonderkommando
    • The Muselmann
    • The Treblinka Revolt 1943
    • The Sobibor Revolt 1943
    • The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt 1944
  • Beyond the Camps
    • Jewish Resistance and Rebellion
    • Jewish Partisans Across Occupied Europe
    • Jews in Allied Armed Forces
    • Should the Allies Have Bombed the Railways to Auschwitz
    • International Resistance and Rescue
    • Deportations from Across Occupied Europe
    • The Baltic States
    • Belgium
    • Bulgaria
    • Croatia
    • Denmark and the Rescue of its Jews
    • The Dominican Republic and Jewish Refugees
    • Finland
    • Vichy France
      • France and Vel d'Hiv
    • Greece and Corfu
      • Rhodes
    • Hungary
      • The Hungarian Deportations 1944
      • The Hungarian Jewish Soldiers
    • Italy
    • The Netherlands
    • Norway
    • Poland Collaboration and Heroism
    • Romania
    • Slovakia
    • The Soviet Union
      • The Bielski Partisans
    • Spain and Portugal
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Yugoslavia
    • Jewish Communities That Survived Relatively Intact
    • International Collaboration with the Nazis
  • Specific Atrocities
    • The Einsatzgruppen
    • The Iași Pogrom
    • The Jedwabne Massacre
    • The Ponary Massacre
    • Babi Yar
    • The Rumbula Massacre
    • The Stroop Report
    • The Odessa Massacre
    • The Auschwitz Album
• Poland and the Ghettos
  • The Ghettos in Detail
  • The Invasion of Poland and the Ghettos
  • The Minsk Ghetto Resistance
  • The Kraków Resistance
  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943
  • The Białystok Ghetto Uprising 1943
  • The Vilna Ghetto Resistance
  • The Janowska Camp Revolt
  • The Łódź Ghetto Resistance
• The Final Solution
  • The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
  • The Six Death Camps
  • The Death Camps 1942 to 1944
• The Death Marches
  • The Auschwitz March, January 1945
  • The Stutthof and Baltic Marches
  • Marches from Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora
  • The Western Marches, April 1945
  • The Hungarian Death Marches, November 1944
  • Survivor Testimony from the Marches
  • The Death March Trials
  • Why the Marches Continued
• Liberation
  • Pöppendorf and Am Stau, the British Detention Camps
  • The Soviet Liberations
  • The Western Liberations
  • Bergen-Belsen and the British Response
  • The Forced Visits
  • The Newsreels
  • The Photographic Record
  • Documenting the Holocaust
  • The Liberators’ Trauma
  • The Displaced Persons Crisis
  • The Exodus 1947
  • The Bricha Movement
• Aftermath
  • Displacement and the Founding of Israel
  • What the Allies Knew and When
    • Allied Aerial Photographs of Auschwitz
  • The Language of the Holocaust

Who Did It

• The Perpetrators
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Post War Perpetrator Lives
  • Klaus Barbie
  • Alois Brunner
  • John Demjanjuk
  • Oskar Dirlewanger
  • Adolf Eichmann
  • Hans Frank
  • Wilhelm Frick
  • Odilo Globocnik
  • Hermann Göring
  • Aribert Heim
  • Reinhard Heydrich
  • Heinrich Himmler
  • Rudolf Höss
  • Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem
  • Friedrich Jeckeln
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner
  • Wilhelm Keitel
  • Josef Mengele
  • Heinrich Müller
  • Walter Rauff
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop
  • Alfred Rosenberg
  • Albert Speer
  • Franz Stangl
  • Julius Streicher
• Nazi Ideology and Rise
  • SS Structure and Recruitment
  • The Racial Ideology, Aryan Supremacy and Pseudo-Science
  • Mein Kampf, the Blueprint Everyone Ignored
  • Who Were the Nazis
  • Germany’s Fear of Revolutionary Communism
    • Judeo-Bolshevism, Jews and Communism Conflated
  • From Ideology to Policy to Murder
    • The Nuremberg Laws as Ideology Made Statute
  • The Churches and Theological Antisemitism
    • The Holocaust and Religion, Complicity and Silence
  • The Role of Propaganda
    • The Economic Scapegoating of Jews
    • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    • Der Sturmer and the Pornography of Hate
    • The Stab in the Back Myth
  • Ordinary People Who Became Killers
    • Ordinary People Who Became Killers, Reserve Police Battalion 101
    • The Desk Killers, Murder by Bureaucracy
    • Perpetrator Psychology
• Collaborators and Collaborating Nations
  • Collaborationist Gangs and Paramilitary Groups
  • Activist Front, Lithuania
  • Arrow Cross, Hungary
  • Blue Police, Poland
  • Iron Guard, Romania
  • Milice, France
  • Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
  • Ustaše, Croatia
  • Pope Pius XII and the Vatican
  • Ion Antonescu
  • Miklós Horthy
  • Pierre Laval
  • Anton Mussert
  • Philippe Pétain
  • Vidkun Quisling
  • Kurt Waldheim
• Industrial Complicity and Slave Labour
  • Allianz and the Insurance Companies
  • BMW
  • Daimler-Benz
  • Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank
  • Deutsche Reichsbahn: The German Railways
  • IG Farben
  • Krupp
  • Siemens
  • Thyssen
  • Volkswagen
  • The Bergkristall Facility
  • The REIMAHG Factory
  • The Mountain Factories and Underground Production
  • The Mittelwerk and Dora Camp
  • Sabotage by Forced Labourers

The Victims

• Jewish Victims
  • Jewish Communities Before the Holocaust
    • The Jews of Berlin
    • The Jews of Amsterdam
    • The Jews of Rome
    • The Jews of Budapest
    • The Jews of Salonika
    • The Jews of Łódź
    • The Jews of Vienna
    • The Jews of Warsaw
    • The Sephardic Communities
  • Jewish Life and Culture Before the War
    • Yiddish Culture and Language
    • Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Before the War
    • Jewish Contributions to European Civilisation
    • The Hasidic Movement
    • Sigmund Freud Albert Einstein and Jewish Intellectuals in Exile
    • Jewish Political Movements
    • Roman Vishniac
    • Spiritual and Cultural Resistance
  • Inside the Catastrophe
    • The Judenrat
    • The Kapos
    • The Jewish Response During the Holocaust
    • Children in the Holocaust
    • Women in the Holocaust
    • The Kanada Warehouses at Auschwitz
    • Hidden Valuables and Body Searches
  • Survivor Voices and Memoirists
    • Primo Levi
    • Elie Wiesel
    • Viktor Frankl
    • Anne Frank
    • Hannah Arendt
    • Marcel Marceau
    • Raphael Lemkin
    • Szmul Zygielbojm
    • Simon Wiesenthal Survivor
    • Raul Hilberg
    • Gerda Weissmann Klein
    • Ruth Kluger
    • Jorge Semprun
    • Imre Kertesz
    • Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
    • Kitty Hart-Moxon
    • Georges Perec
    • Leon Greenman
    • Renee Firestone
    • Thomas Buergenthal
    • Zigi Shipper
    • The Four Auschwitz Women
  • Holocaust Books and Authors
    • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    • Night by Elie Wiesel
    • If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
    • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
    • Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
    • Maus by Art Spiegelman
  • Art Looting and Restitution
    • Goering Personal Art Collection
    • Fuhrermuseum Project
    • The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg
    • Hair Gold Teeth and Industrial Looting
    • The Salt Mines at Altaussee
    • The Monuments Men
    • The Washington Principles 1998
    • The Gurlitt Collection
    • The Klimt Paintings and Woman in Gold
    • Books Manuscripts and Libraries
  • Righteous Among the Nations
    • Frank Foley
    • Nicholas Winton
    • Raoul Wallenberg
    • Chiune Sugihara
    • Witold Pilecki
    • Oskar Schindler
    • Joop Westerweel
    • Giovanni Palatucci
    • Aristides de Sousa Mendes
    • Giorgio Perlasca
    • Irena Sendler
    • Jan Karski
    • Angel Sanz Briz
    • Carl Lutz
    • Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
    • Marion Pritchard
    • Martin Niemöller
    • Corrie ten Boom
    • Hugh O’Flaherty
    • Pope John XXIII
    • Jimmy de Rothschild
  • The British Dimension
    • Churchill and the Holocaust
    • Richard Dimbleby Bergen-Belsen Broadcast 1945
    • Eleanor Rathbone MP
    • Chips Channon Diary Entry December 1942
    • Anthony Eden and the Commons Statement December 1942
  • Art and Literature of the Holocaust
    • Music in the Camps and Ghettos
    • Poetry from the Camps
    • Art Produced Secretly by Prisoners
  • The Numbers, How Six Million is Calculated
• Polish Victims
  • The Zamość Expulsions: Generalplan Ost in Action
  • Forced Labour: Polish Workers Deported to Germany
  • Generalplan Ost: The Plan to Erase Poland
  • Auschwitz and the Polish Prisoners
  • Polish Culture and What Was Lost
  • The Destruction of Warsaw 1944
  • Polish Children Stolen for Germanisation
  • The Polish Underground State
• Soviet Prisoners of War
• Political Prisoners
• Homosexual Men
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Roma and Sinti
• Other Targeted Groups
  • People with Disabilities and the T4 Programme
• The Economics and Looting
• Legacy and Why It Still Matters
  • How Nations Remember Their Own Dead
  • Why It Still Matters
    • Why It Still Matters Today
    • The Living Memory Problem
    • Digital Preservation of Testimony USC Shoah Foundation
    • The Post Holocaust Legacy for Germany
  • Reparations and Restitution
    • The Luxembourg Agreement 1952
    • German Corporate Reparations
    • The Wiedergutmachung Programme
    • The Swiss National Bank and Looted Gold
    • Swiss Banks and the Volcker Commission
    • Swiss Insurance Companies and Unpaid Policies
    • The Foundation Remembrance Responsibility and Future
  • Education and Remembrance
    • Holocaust Memorial Day
    • Holocaust Education in UK Schools
    • The Next Generation of Holocaust Education
  • Modern Antisemitism and Denial
    • Antisemitism in the UK at Record Levels
    • Modern Antisemitism and Historical Patterns
    • Social Media and Holocaust Denial
    • Genocide Since the Holocaust
  • Kielce 1946
• Memorialisation and Remembrance
  • The 1978 TV Series Holocaust
  • Museums and Libraries
    • Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre
    • Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • The Wiener Holocaust Library London
    • Anne Frank House Amsterdam
    • Topography of Terror Berlin
    • Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
    • Jewish Museum Berlin
    • Holocaust Museum Houston
    • Yad Vashem Jerusalem
  • Physical Memorials
    • Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Berlin
    • Treblinka Memorial
    • Sobibor Memorial Site
    • The Proposed UK Holocaust Memorial at Westminster
  • Films and Television
    • Shoah the Documentary
    • Schindler’s List
    • Hannah Arendt the Film
    • Life is Beautiful
    • The Reader
    • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
    • The Holocaust in Popular Culture

The Deniers

• Denial Claims and Rebuttals
  • The Numbers
    • The Six Million Figure is an Exaggeration
    • Jewish Population Figures Do Not Support Six Million Deaths
    • The Demographic Evidence is Unreliable
    • Census Data Does Not Support the Claimed Losses
    • The Red Cross Reported Only 300000 Deaths
    • The Numbers Were Exaggerated to Justify Israel
    • More Jews Were Alive After the War Than Before
    • The Auschwitz Death Toll Was Revised Downward
    • Jewish Organisations Inflated the Numbers
  • The Camps
    • Prisoners Died of Typhus Not Systematic Murder
    • The Camps Were Labour Camps Not Death Camps
    • The Allies Starved Prisoners Too
    • Camp Conditions Were No Worse Than Allied POW Camps
    • Theresienstadt Was a Model Camp
    • The Auschwitz Swimming Pool Proves It Was Not a Death Camp
    • Prisoners Received Food and Medical Care
    • Bergen-Belsen Was a Humanitarian Disaster Not Murder
  • The Gas Chambers
    • Gas Chambers Could Not Have Functioned as Described
    • The Leuchter Report Proved No Gas Chambers
    • Survivor Gas Chamber Testimony is Hearsay
    • Zyklon B Was Used for Delousing Not Killing
    • The Gas Chamber Capacity is Physically Impossible
    • The Auschwitz Chambers Are Postwar Reconstructions
    • The Gas Chambers Never Existed
    • No Documentary Evidence Orders Gas Chamber Construction
    • Liberation Newsreels Were Faked
    • Liberation Photographs Were Staged
  • The Plan and the Order
    • The Holocaust Was Not Planned From the Beginning
    • There Was No Systematic Plan, Just Wartime Chaos
    • Himmler Acted Without Hitler’s Knowledge
    • The Final Solution Referred to Deportation Not Extermination
    • The Wannsee Conference Was Just an Administrative Meeting
    • No Written Order from Hitler to Exterminate Jews
  • Specific Documents
    • The Einsatzgruppen Reports Were Forged
    • The Anne Frank Diary is a Forgery
    • The Stroop Report is a Fabrication
    • The Diary Was Written by Her Father
    • The Wannsee Protocol is a Forgery
  • The Evidence
    • Allied Prosecutors Fabricated Documents at Nuremberg
    • The Confessions of Rudolf Hoss Were Extracted Under Duress
    • The Nuremberg Evidence Was Obtained by Torture
    • Survivor Testimony is Unreliable
  • Scientific and Technical Claims
    • The Logistics of Murdering Six Million Were Impossible
    • Zyklon B Could Not Have Worked as Described
    • Cremation Capacity Was Insufficient for Six Million
    • Forensic Examination Has Not Produced Sufficient Evidence
    • The Gas Chamber Engineering is Physically Implausible
  • Responsibility and Knowledge
    • Hitler Tried to Stop the Excesses
    • The Holocaust Was the Work of a Small Fanatical Group
    • Hitler Did Not Know About the Holocaust
    • The German People Did Not Know
    • The Wehrmacht Was Not Involved Only the SS
    • Ordinary Germans Were Just Following Orders
  • Jewish Behaviour and Complicity
    • Anne Frank Died of Typhus Not Murder
    • Jews Went Passively to Their Deaths
    • The Judenrat Collaborated So Jews Share Responsibility
    • Rich Jews Could Buy Their Way Out
    • Jewish Kapos Were as Brutal as SS Guards
  • Religious and Prophetic Claims
    • The Talmud Teaches Jews to Deceive Non-Jews
    • God Would Not Have Allowed the Holocaust to Happen
  • Motivation and Fabrication
    • The Holocaust is a Myth to Justify Israel
    • Jewish Organisations Fabricated the Holocaust for Reparations
    • The Holocaust is Used to Silence Criticism of Israel
    • Hollywood Exaggerates Because Jews Control the Media
    • Zionists Provoked Nazi Persecution
    • The Holocaust Narrative Serves Western Imperial Interests
    • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Are Genuine
  • Comparative and Whataboutery
    • British Concentration Camps in South Africa Were Equivalent
    • The Slave Trade Killed More People
    • American Treatment of Japanese Americans Was Equivalent
    • The Bombing of Dresden Was as Bad as the Holocaust
    • Zionists Collaborated Through the Haavara Agreement
    • Other Groups Suffered as Much as Jews
    • The Soviet Union Killed More People Than the Nazis
    • The Allies Committed War Crimes Too
  • Holocaust Inversion
    • Israeli Treatment of Gaza is Equivalent to the Holocaust
    • Israeli Military Actions Are Comparable to Einsatzgruppen
    • Zionism is a Form of Nazism
    • Israel is Doing to Palestinians What Nazis Did to Jews
    • Calling Israeli Actions Genocidal is Not Antisemitism
  • Legal and Political Suppression
    • Denial Laws Prove the Story Cannot Withstand Scrutiny
    • David Irving Was Prosecuted for Telling the Truth
    • If the Holocaust Were True There Would Be No Need for Denial Laws
    • Academic Freedom Requires Allowing Holocaust Revisionism
• The Holocaust and the Middle East
  • Arab Responses to Jewish Immigration Before and After the War
  • The Holocaust and the Founding of Israel
  • How the Holocaust is Used and Misused in the Israeli-Palestinian Debate
• Holocaust Denial and Key People
  • Historians Who Question the Narrative Are Persecuted
  • The Holocaust Was Predicted in Jewish Scripture
  • Robert Faurisson
  • Ernst Zundel
  • The History of Denial
  • Holocaust Denial
  • David Irving
  • Denial Distortion and Minimisation
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • The Irving versus Lipstadt Libel Trial
  • TikTok and Holocaust Denial
  • Deborah Lipstadt
  • Social Media and the Spread of Denial
  • Denial as a Legal Offence in Europe
  • Roger Garaudy
  • Contemporary Political Minimisers
• Myths and Documented Evidence
  • The Lampshade Myth
  • Ilse Koch and the Buchenwald Evidence
  • Soap Made from Human Fat
• The Holocaust and Science
  • The Nuremberg Code
  • The Corruption of German Medical Science
  • Other Nazi Medical Experiments

The Trials

• The Nuremberg Trials
  • The Defence of Following Orders
  • Thomas Dodd
  • Benjamin Ferencz
  • Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
  • Whitney Harris
  • Gideon Hausner
  • Robert Jackson
  • Francois de Menthon
  • Roman Rudenko
  • Sir Hartley Shawcross
  • Telford Taylor
  • The Defendants Verdicts and Sentences
  • Göring’s Suicide
  • The Hangings of October 1946
  • Defendants Who Received Prison Sentences and Were Released
  • The Twelve Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
    • The Doctors Trial
    • The Einsatzgruppen Trial
    • The Industrialists Trial
• Subsequent Trials and Prosecutions
  • The Eichmann Trial 1961
  • Klaus Barbie Trial and Conviction 1987
  • John Demjanjuk Convicted 2011
  • Ongoing Prosecutions of Camp Guards
  • Those Who Escaped Justice
• Holocaust Law and Legacy
  • The Holocaust and Law
  • The Nuremberg Principles and Their Legacy
  • Raphael Lemkin Who Coined the Word Genocide
  • Crimes Against Humanity, a New Concept in International Law
  • Universal Jurisdiction
  • Intelligence Services and Protected Nazis
  • The Genocide Convention 1948
  • The Eichmann Trial as a Turning Point in Holocaust Consciousness
• The Ratlines
  • Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
  • ODESSA the SS Escape Organisation
  • Argentina Brazil and Paraguay as Nazi Destinations
• Nazi Hunters
  • Nazi Hunters Overview
  • Simon Wiesenthal
  • The Vatican and Catholic Clergy in the Ratlines
  • Tuvia Friedman
  • The Office 06 and the Capture of Eichmann

About This Site

• About This Site
  • Leonard William Mortimer
  • Yossel Wajntraub
  • Hannah Day
• Sources and Further Reading
  • The Nizkor Project
  • Yad Vashem Educational Resources
  • The Avalon Project at Yale
  • The Internet Archive
  • The Eichmann Trial Transcripts
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Resources
  • Hansard and UK Parliamentary Records
  • The USC Shoah Foundation