&gt; Obviously it&#x27;s just as despicable to say that the Gulags never happened.<p>Obviously. But the latter is not illegal.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not much of an issue though in Germany &#x2F; Europe, no one&#x27;s really claiming that, probably since it wouldn&#x27;t feed into any popular &#x2F; populist narratives.<p>This argument contains an implicit assumption that the situation would be worse if holocaust denial was legal. Is there any data to support this claim (e.g. from the time or countries where holocaust denial isn&#x27;t legal)? If not, I seriously doubt this claim - right now, it appears that Germany has a serious, possibly growing, problem with neo-nazis, <i>while</i> it&#x27;s illegal. On the other hand, plenty of European countries and the US have little problems with neo-nazis, despite it being legal (they have other racial&#x2F;white-supremacist problems, but they rarely seem against Jews, unless I&#x27;m very mistaken). So it would seem that that implicit assumption <i>completely</i> made up.