"How is the Holocaust denied?
The modern form of Holocaust denial is focused on a dismissal of three core aspects of the Holocaust:
“The suggestion of around 6 million Jewish victims is absurd – some Jews may have died during World War II, but not nearly 6 million”
“The suggested gas chambers in Auschwitz and elsewhere are an invention – scientific experiments show that gas was not used to kill people, but only for disinfections”
“It was never Hitler’s intention to murder the Jews – they were to be deported to the east, but never killed”
In order to create doubt about the truth of the Holocaust, the deniers use some very dubious methods. Some examples:
The deniers pretend to be working for the “historical truth”. This sounds very noble, but only works as a cover. The deniers are merely working to undermine acknowledged scholarship.
The deniers put an equation mark between the existence of several historical interpretations of the Holocaust and the fact that it never happened. In other words: If one historian suggests that only 4 million Jews fell victim to the nazi persecution, and another historian suggests 7 million, then they disagree – an then the Holocaust is a false construction. But: that two historians disagree about the number of victims is NOT the same as suggesting that the Holocaust never took place. Those elements are NOT inter-connected.
The deniers’ interpretation of the sources is highly suspect. If a source says something specific or direct about extermination of the Jews, it is rejected as a euphemism – words like ‘extermination’ are said to mean something much less terrible. If, on the other hand, a source does use a euphemism (for instance ‘special treatment’ instead of ‘murder’

– which the Nazis frequently did – this source is of course taken literally.
The deniers also use pure falsifications, lies, rewritings of quotations, quotations taken out of their original context, and several other dirty tricks."
The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies