Holocaust Denial on Trial
Addressing denialist myths surrounding the massacres at Babi Yar and by the Einsatzgruppen, and the means of committing mass killings using diesel exhaust and mobile gas vans.
![Arthur Nebe. Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-Alber-096-34 / Alber, Kurt / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wiki_ArthurNebe_EZG1_500-500x315.jpeg)
Introduction: What were the Einsatzgruppen? The Einsatzgruppen (Special Groups) were four mobile paramilitary units who were assigned to follow the Wehrmacht (regular Germany army) into the Soviet Union and its…
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Were gasoline engines or diesel engines used in the death camps of Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor? Holocaust deniers claim: According to Holocaust deniers, those who believe the Holocaust happened have…
read more![Gas producer vehicle, 1940. Sam Hood [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons courtesy of collections from the State Libraries of NSW.](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wiki_GasProducerVehicle_DS5_500-500x315.jpeg)
Did the Nazis employ producer gas engines to create the poisonous exhaust used in the death camps of Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor? Holocaust deniers claim: “Producer gas engines” generate much…
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Can smoke and soot in diesel engine exhaust play a role in the death of human beings? Holocaust deniers claim: According to Holocaust deniers, the black smoke and soot in…
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How do we know how much oxygen is in diesel engine exhaust? Holocaust deniers claim: Diesel engine exhaust contains 18 percent oxygen, so a human being cannot die from asphyxiation…
read more![Erich Fuchs. See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wiki_ErichFuchs_DS2_DS5_500-500x315.jpeg)
How do we know a diesel engine can produce enough carbon monoxide in its exhaust to kill people? Holocaust deniers claim: The idea of using diesel engine exhaust to murder…
read more![By EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Diesel-smoke_ds1-500x315.jpg)
What is carbon monoxide? How does it kill? Carbon monoxide is a gas that cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled. It is a byproduct of the incomplete burning of gasoline,…
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What do the aerial photographs of the Babi Yar ravine show regarding the exhumation of human remains and the burning of these remains? Holocaust deniers claim: An aerial photograph of…
read more![View of the TV tower from Babi Yar, Kiev. By Roland Geider (Ogre) (own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wiki_BabiYarTVTower_BY4_500-500x315.jpeg)
Why are we not able to find physical traces of the mass graves at Babi Yar? Holocaust deniers claim: There is no physical evidence in the form of remains in…
read more![Syrets concentration camp (also: Syretskij concentration camp), a Nazi German concentration camp erected in 1942 in a Kiev's western neighborhood of Syrets. Barbed wire fence. By World War II unknown photographer (Babi Yar, Berdichev Revival) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.hdot.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wiki_SyretsConcentrationCamp_BY3_500-500x315.jpeg)
Did the Nazis attempt to destroy evidence of the Babi Yar massacre by exhuming and burning the bodies? Holocaust deniers claim: There is only one survivor who exhumed and burned…
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