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When did the holocaust become against the law?

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It is only "denial" of the Holocaust that is illegal in some countries. The Holocaust is the name used for the Nazi genocide against the Jews during World War II. After the war, Germany, Austria and other countries passed laws that prohibited the public denial of the Holocaust as an historical fact.

The intent of these laws is to prevent the same sort of ethnic or racial hatred to occur again in these countries, more specifically to prevent the rehabilitation of the Nazi movement by denying that they did anything immoral when they performed abhorrent and brutal acts against innocent people. It was a well-documented official program.

In a practical sense, it also deters Germany from falling under the control of any similar mass nationalistic movement by remembering the terrible effects it had on the perpetrators as well as the victims.

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