Editing Holocaust denial (section)

===Denialist focus on Allied war crimes===
In countries where outright denial of the Holocaust is illegal, Holocaust denial authors, focus "on so-called [[Allied war crimes during World War II#Western Allies|Allied atrocities]] against the Germans during and after the war."<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''Holocaust denial as an international movement'', ABC-CLIO, 2009, pg. 105</ref> According to historian [[Deborah Lipstadt]], the concept of "comparable Allied wrongs", such as the [[expulsion of Germans after World War II]] and the [[bombing of Dresden]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Evans|first=Richard|author-link=Richard J. Evans|title=Dresden and Holocaust Denial|work=David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition|year=1996|url=http://hdot.org/en/trial/defense/evans/520e.html|access-date=December 23, 2013|archive-date=December 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220011057/http://hdot.org/en/trial/defense/evans/520e.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> is at the center of, and a continuously repeated theme of, contemporary [[Historical revisionism (negationism)#Politically motivated historical revisionism|Holocaust denial]]; she calls the phenomenon "immoral equivalencies".<ref>Lipstadt, Deborah. ''Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory'', Bt Bound, 1999, pg. 41</ref> In 1977, historian [[Martin Broszat]], in a review of [[David Irving]]'s book ''[[Hitler's War]]'', maintained that the picture of World War II drawn by Irving was done in a such way to imply moral equivalence between the actions of the Axis and Allied states with both sides equally guilty of terrible crimes, leading to Hitler's "fanatical, destructive will to annihilate" being downgraded to being "no longer an exceptional phenomenon".<ref>Broszat, Martin. "Hitler and the Genesis of the 'Final Solution': An Assessment of David Irving's Theses" pages 390–429 from ''Aspects of the Third Reich'' edited by H.W. Koch page 395.</ref>