Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims
are used to question the reality of the Nazis' attempt to
exterminate Europe's Jews. By Deborah Lipstadt Last updated
2011-02-17 Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and
false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis'
attempt to exterminate Europe's Jews. Holocaust deniers are
people who contend that the Holocaust - the attempt by Nazi
Germany to annihilate European Jewry during World War Two -
never happened. According to the deniers, the Nazis did not
murder six million Jews, the notion of homicidal gas chambers is
a myth, and any deaths of Jews that did occur under the Nazis
were the result of wartime privations, not of systematic
persecution and state-organised mass murder. Some even claim
that Hitler was the best friend the Jews had in Germany, and
that he actively worked to protect them. Deniers dismiss all
assertions that the Holocaust took place as conscious
fabrications, or as psychotic delusions. Some even claim that