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Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
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The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the negationist notion that the regular German armed forces were not involved in the Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II. The myth, heavily promoted by German authors and military personnel after World War II, completely denies the culpability of the German military command in the planning and perpetration of war crimes. Even where the perpetration of war crimes and the waging of an extermination campaign, particularly in the Soviet Union – where the Nazis viewed the population as "sub-humans" ruled by "Jewish Bolshevik" conspirators – has been acknowledged, they are ascribed to the "Party soldiers corps", the Schutzstaffel (SS), but not the regular German military.
Germans protesting the Wehrmacht exhibition in 2002. The touring exhibition, organised by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, began to erode th
Germans protesting the Wehrmacht exhibition in 2002. The touring exhibition, organised by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, began to erode the myth for the German public in the 1990s. The signs state "Glory and honour to the German soldier!".
About 300 Polish prisoners of war were murdered by soldiers of the German 15th Motorised Infantry Regiment in the Ciepielów massacre on 9 September 19
About 300 Polish prisoners of war were murdered by soldiers of the German 15th Motorised Infantry Regiment in the Ciepielów massacre on 9 September 1939.
Großadmiral Karl Dönitz and several Kriegsmarine (Naval branch of the Wehrmacht) officers performing the Nazi salute in 1941
Großadmiral Karl Dönitz and several Kriegsmarine (Naval branch of the Wehrmacht) officers performing the Nazi salute in 1941
Three men about to be hanged in front of a large crowd of Wehrmacht soldiers
Three men about to be hanged in front of a large crowd of Wehrmacht soldiers
Historical negationism
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Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations of history. In attempting to revise the past, historical negationism acts as illegitimate historical revisionism by using techniques inadmissible in proper historical discourse, such as presenting known forged documents as genuine, inventing ingenious but implausible reasons for distrusting genuine documents, attributing conclusions to books and sources that report the opposite, manipulating statistical series to support the given point of view, and deliberately mistranslating texts.
A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a shin gunto during the Nanking Massacre
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 i
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.
During the Rwandan genocide, over five-thousand people seeking refuge in the then Ntarama church were killed by grenade, machete, rifle, or burnt aliv
During the Rwandan genocide, over five-thousand people seeking refuge in the then Ntarama church were killed by grenade, machete, rifle, or burnt alive.
A member of the revisionist group “Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform” erects a banner reading "[Give] the Children Correct History Textbook
A member of the revisionist group “Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform” erects a banner reading "[Give] the Children Correct History Textbooks".