The perpetrators attempted to avoid creating explicit evidence and they also tried to destroy the documentary and
material evidence of their crimes before the German defeat.<a href="
Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a><a href="
Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> Nevertheless, much of the evidence was preserved and collected by Allied investigators during and after the war, and the overwhelming evidence of the crimes ultimately made such erasure attempts futile. Collectively, the evidence refutes the arguments of
Holocaust deniers that the Holocaust did not occur as described in historical scholarship
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