Editing Holocaust denial (section)

==Genocide denials==
{{Main|Genocide denial}}
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Other acts of genocide have met similar attempts to deny and minimize them. [[Gregory H. Stanton]], formerly of the [[United States Department of State|US State Department]] and the founder of [[Genocide Watch]], lists denial as the final stage of a genocide development: "Denial is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further [[genocidal massacre]]s. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims."<ref>{{cite web |first=Gregory |last=Stanton |url=http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutgenocide/8stagesofgenocide.html |title=Eight Stages of Genocide Denial |website=[[Genocide Watch]] |access-date=June 19, 2013 |archive-date=March 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302002304/http://www.genocidewatch.org/aboutgenocide/8stagesofgenocide.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Holocaust denial is often compared to [[Armenian genocide denial]] because of similar tactics of misrepresenting evidence, false equivalence, claiming that atrocities were invented by [[war propaganda]] and that powerful lobbies manufacture genocide allegations for their own profit, subsuming one-sided systematic extermination into war deaths, and shifting blame from the perpetrators to the victims of genocide. Both forms of [[Historical negationism|negationism]] share the goal of rehabilitating the ideologies which brought genocide about.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloxham |first1=Donald |author-link=Donald Bloxham |title=The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians |title-link=The Great Game of Genocide |date=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-922688-7 |language=en |page=208}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=David B. |author-link=David Bruce MacDonald |title=Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation |date=2008 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-134-08572-9 |language=en |page=133}}</ref>