Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is the falsification, trivialization, or distortion of the historical record. This is distinct from historical revisionism, a broader term enc
A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a shin gunto during the Nanking Massacre
The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum's promotion of the view that Armenians committed genocide against Turks, rather than vice versa, has received international condemnation for falsifying the history surrounding those Armenians killed.
Nikolai Yezhov walking with Stalin in the top photo from the mid 1930s. Following his execution in 1940, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors.
During the Rwandan genocide, over five-thousand people seeking refuge in the then Ntarama church were killed by grenade, machete, rifle, or burnt alive.
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest
Historical negationism
…invasion of China, and World War II, itself, were justified reactions to the Western imperialism of the time. On 2 March 2007, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe denied that the military had forced women into sexual slavery during the war, saying, "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion…
The Abe family in 1956 (left to right): his mother Yōko, Shinzo at the age of two, his father Shintaro and his elder brother Hironobu
Shinzo (center) with his family and grandfather Nobusuke Kishi (4th left), who influenced Abe's beliefs
Memorial monument for Shinzō Abe at Osaka Gokoku Shrine in Osaka Japan