Editing Holocaust denial (section)

==Revisionist tactics==
Revisionists do not deny the deportation of Jews from all of Europe and the detention in camps in Poland (which was semi-annexed by Greater Germany and abolished in name). They have several explanation models to motivate the Nazi deportation of Jews. None of them are bulletproof.

===Deportation to Madagascar===
Auschwitz, Sobibor, and other international concentration camps were located in Greater Germany. So &mdash; if the Nazis intend to expel the Jews ''out of'' Greater Germany, '''why did they take the effort to ship Jews ''into'' Greater Germany''' from distant occupied countries such as [[Norway]], France and Greece (which were ruled by [[Puppet state|puppet governments]] and were not going to be annexed)? In other words: if the policy was to get Jews ''out'', why bring them ''in''?

The Nazis used several euphemisms for killing; one was "deportation", according to the Nazi policy to cleanse Germany from Jews. The Nazis indeed had ideas of a Jewish homeland in Madagascar. Madagascar was under [[Vichy France|Vichy French]] control (but practically isolated from Germany) until 1942, when it was occupied by the Allies.

===Forced labor===
Some revisionists claim that Jews were rounded up for [[slavery|forced labor]]. This does not explain why small [[children]] and elderly people were deported, separated from their families. Since Poles and other Slavic peoples were used for forced labor, abducting more of these people would have been more economical than transporting Jews from distant occupied countries, such as Norway, France, and Greece.

===Security risks===
Some revisionists, such as the IHR,<ref>[http://www.nizkor.org/features/qar/qar09.html Response to IHR question 9 ("Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration camps?")] The Nizkor Project</ref> claim that the internment of Jews was motivated since they posed a [[National security|security risk]]. However, while most Jews were deported to Poland, Nazis did not routinely deport resistance fighters or non-Jewish civilians from occupied nations. In any case, this explanation is no good for the deportation of children as young as five, and old people in their eighties.

===Slaughter of millions vs genocide===
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Some Holocaust deniers use this fact in the reasoning "the Jews were not exterminated, therefore, it was [[No True Scotsman|not a real genocide]]." The simplest response is that the UN's definition of genocide does not require the successful implementation of a plan.<ref>[http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf Office of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG): Analysis Framework] United Nations</ref> Why? Because killing ''every single member of a given race'' is nearly impossible. Some people can pass as other races, like many Jews did. Some members of every race will be dispersed all over the world. Some would hide, bunkered, for decades. There wouldn't be a single successful genocide in human history if perfection was required &mdash; and this would make the word "genocide" meaningless.

Moreover, even if the Holocaust ''wasn't'' a genocide, it was still an atrocious loss of human life that deserves condemnation.