Denying the Holocaust is not merely frowned upon across much of Europe; it is a crime. The principle is clear: some lies are not just opinions but assaults on truth and a wound to the dead. That principle is codified in law—from Germany’s criminal ban on public Holocaust denial to France’s Gayssot Act—and reinforced at the European level by the EU Framework Decision requiring member states to criminalize the public condoning, denial, or gross trivialization of genocide when it incites hatred. These statutes make a claim about civic morality: memory is a bulwark against renewed persecution.
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