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Theory: The Holocaust Was Exaggerated

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Although it’s a known fact that the Holocaust during World War II resulted in the extermination of over 6 million Jews, unbelievably, some people still aren’t entirely convinced. Apparently, the ex-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the Holocaust was a “myth” and insisted that other countries aside from Palestine should take responsibility for providing the land for a Jewish state.

Furthermore, although less extreme, there are also Holocaust deniers that do not claim that the Holocaust was completely fabricated, but instead that it was largely exaggerated. However, they do deny the use of gas chambers and maintain that the pictures of thousands of corpses were people that had died of typhus.