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Removing false titles and excessive introductory commas, as well as a highly emotive quotation that seemingly serves no purpose but to be so; its unusual introduction, “In the words of…”, is something I’ve not seen in any other article.
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More general, that was only a small aspect of the Holocaust
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{{short description|Inappropriate comparisons or analogies that trivialize the Holocaust}}
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'''Holocaust trivialization''' refers to any comparison or analogy that diminishes the scale and severity of the war crimes that wereatrocities committed by [[Nazi Germany]] during the [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Foxman|first=Abraham H.|date=27 January 2014|url=https://www.adl.org/news/op-ed/inappropriate-comparisons-trivialize-the-holocaust|title=Inappropriate Comparisons Trivialize the Holocaust|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref> The [[Wiesel Commission]] defined [[Minimisation (psychology)|trivialization]] as the abusive use of comparisons with the aim of minimizing the Holocaust and banalizing it.<ref name="Wiesel Commission 2004"/> Originally, ''[[Holocaust (sacrifice)|holocaust]]'' meant a type of [[sacrifice]] that is completely burnt to ashes; starting from the late 19th century, it started to denote extensive destruction of a group, usually people or animals. The 1915 [[Armenian genocide]] was described as a "holocaust" by contemporary observers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Suny|first=Ronald Grigor|author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny|title='They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else': A History of the Armenian Genocide|title-link=They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else|year=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-6558-1 |pages=xxi, 347, 369}}</ref>
 
[[Manfred Gerstenfeld]] identifies trivialization of the Holocaust as one of eleven forms of Holocaust distortion; he defines Holocaust trivialization as the application of language that is specific to describing the Holocaust to events and purposes that are unrelated to it.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gerstenfeld|first=Manfred|date=28 October 2007|url=https://jcpa.org/article/the-multiple-distortions-of-holocaust-memory/|title=The Multiple Distortions of Holocaust Memory|publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs|access-date=2 December 2020}}</ref> According to David Rudrum examples of Holocaust trivialization include [[Lord Wigley]] invoking [[Auschwitz]] to oppose nuclear weapons and [[Al Gore]] citing ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' in defence of the environment.<ref name="Rudrum 2021">{{cite web|last=Rudrum|first=David|date=16 March 2021|url=https://holocaustlearning.org.uk/latest/holocaust-trivialisation/|title=Why Holocaust Trivialisation Isn't Trivial|publisher=The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre|access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref>
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