HOLOCAUST

Did the Holocaust really happen?

Did the Holocaust really happen?

Introduction

The Holocaust refers to the annihilation of Jews under Nazi German leader A. Hitler (1889-1945) during World War II, as well as the associated mass murder of other groups such as gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, and non-Jewish Poles. Some scholars prefer the Hebrew term Shoah (destruction) because the biblical Greek term holocaustos (burnt offering) is theologically offensive in connoting that the deaths of two thirds of European Jewry were a ritual sacrifice to God. Also, the use of the term 'holocaust' in its broad meaning - large-scale destruction - is problematic in obscuring ...