The word "holocaust" is of Greek origin and means
"immolation by fire". It is nowadays almost exclusively used to depict
the alleged extermination of the Jews by the Germans during the Second World
War.
According to the orthodox historians, the National Socialist
leadership, having decided to wipe out the Jewish race, set up six
extermination camps where [six] million of Jews were gassed. All six
killing factories were located in Poland (or in territories which had been
Polish before the war and were annexed by Germany in 1939 before returning to
Poland in 1945). Four of them (Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor and Chelmno) were pure
extermination camps, and only a handful of Jews survived them. At Belzec,
Treblinka and Sobibor, the Jews were murdered in gas chambers, at Chelmno in gas
vans. The remaining two extermination centres, Auschwitz and Majdanek, served
both as killing factories and as labour camps. In these two camps, the Jews
unfit for labour were gassed, while those able to work were at least temporarily
spared. The bodies of the gassed Jews were burnt, partly in crematoria, partly
in the open air, so that no mass graves were found after the war. As all gassing
orders were only given orally, no documentary evidence corroborating the
existence of homicidal gas chambers has ever been discovered.
The Holocaust historians claim that, in addition to the mass
gassings, the Germans shot between one and two million Jews on the Eastern
front. According to them, between five and six million Jews perished in
the German sphere of influence. More than half of them were murdered in
homicidal gas chambers (and, to a much lesser extent, in homicidal gas vans), a
large part of them were shot in the occupied Soviet territories, and the
remaining ones (some hundreds of thousands) perished from diseases, starvation
and bad treatment in labour camps and ghettos.
This is the official version of the holocaust, as it is
described in Raul Hilberg's standard work The Destruction of the European
Jews. Read the many articles on this website and you will see why it is hard for rational people to believe in this event.