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are some of the facts — the bare truth —
about the Holocaust.

Q: Did the Nazis have an agenda
other than antisemitism? Though
Adolf Hitler certainly hated Jews,

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vinced of the existence of a master race that
was in danger of disappearing. To prevent
this, he believed, Aryans must stop mixing
their pure blood with that of lesser beings —
primarily Jews.

Answers to important questions
about the Holocaust.

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Adolf Hitler

Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor
avid Irving may have lost his case,
but there are plenty more like him
out there.
Earlier this month, a British court ruled that
Irving had not been slandered when Emory
University Professor Deborah Lipstadt
described him as a Holocaust denier in her
book Denying The Holocaust: The Growing

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Assualt on Truth and Memory.
While Irving may be the best-known Holo-
caust denier (don't honor their claims by using
their chosen title of "revisionist"), many more
of them exist — as do others who are totally
ignorant of the Shoah.
So arm yourself: Get educated.
As we approach Yom HaShoah, Holo-
caust Remembrance Day, on May 2, here

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wasn't his primary goal really to
unify and rebuild Germany after
World War I?
A: No. The Nazis' sole focus was hatred of
the Jews. In the words of author Nora Levin,
writing in The Holocaust: the Destruction of
European Jewry, 1933-1945, "There was no
Nazi ideology aside from anti-Jewish ideology."

Q: When did Hitler become an anti-
semite?
A: In his book Mein Kampf, Hitler himself
pinpoints the beginning of his' antisemitism. It
was between 1909 and 1913, when he
was living in Vienna, that Hitler first became
a follower of Vienna Mayor Karl Lueger, who
was outspoken in his hatred of Jews.
Hitler also read as much antisemitic material
as he could get his hands on, including the
infamous forgery The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion. It was also around this time, when
Hitler was 20 years old, that he became con-

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0: What exactly were the "Nurem-
berg Laws"?
A: Instituted in 1935, the Nuremberg Laws
were a collection of laws that limited Jewish
rights in Nazi Germany. While German citi-
zens had been persecuting Jews for some
time, these laws marked the first instance of
the state officially and legally endorsing anti-
! semitism. Among the Nuremberg Laws:
1 • Only those of "German or related blood"
(i.e., no Jews) could be citizens of the country
• Jews and gentiles were no longer allowed
to marry or have intimate relations
I • Jews were not allowed to display the Ger-
i man flag

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Q: How do we know that Hitler
himself knew about the "Final Solu-
tion?" Can we really be sure it
wasn't just his officers who planned
everything?
A: For reasons impossible to understand,

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