Re: And if there was no Holocaust then there was no justification for the creation of the state of Israel. Therefore Israel was an impostor.
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Holocaust deniers insist Auschwitz could not have been a death camp
Actually, most "Holocaust deniers" don't gainsay the historical fact that the Nazi regime starved and worked to death millions of Jewish and non-Jewish people, mostly from Central Europe and Russia.... Although Holocaust deniers do subscribe to the first paragraph of the Wikipedia definition of Nazi concentration camps, they refute its second paragraph about "death camps".
Nazi concentration camps
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Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. The Nazis adopted the term euphemistically from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War to conceal the deadly nature of the camps. The first Nazi camps were within Germany, and were primarily labor camps. During the war, prisoners in the concentration camps included millions of Jews, along with Communists, hundreds of thousands of Poles, Soviet and other prisoners of war, homosexuals, gypsies, certain Catholics, some Jehovah's Witnesses, and others. Millions of concentration camp prisoners were killed through mistreatment, disease, starvation, overwork, or executed as unfit for labor.
Starting in 1941, Nazi Germany established extermination or death camps for the sole purpose of the industrialized killing of the Jews of Europe, the Final Solution. These camps were established in occupied Poland and Belarus, on the territory of the General Government. Over three million Jews would die in these extermination camps, primarily by poison gas, usually in gas chambers, although many prisoners were killed in mass shootings and by other means. These death camps, including Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau are often referred to as "concentration camps," though scholars of the Holocaust draw a distinction between concentration camps and death camps.
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