Holocaust Denial

[Anomalocaris]

I have heard that The Holocaust wasn't widely known in American and British circles in the immediate decade or so after the war. I think it wasn't until the early 1970s that the murder of 6 million Jews got the name of Holocaust.

Could that be because of it took place in Poland and the USSR far away from any any American or British reporters? I hear the Soviets were pretty tight-lipped and restrictive about providing access, and they and the eastern bloc engaged in a form of holocaust denial where the anti-semitic nature of Nazi Germany's crimes was vastly downplayed.

I am considering going on a trip to Germany, Poland and Prague to see the former sights of it myself. It is such a fascinating yet horrific period of human history.

In my opinion the Holocaust is the worst thing to have happened on the planet, worse in some ways than any of Stalin or Mao's crimes.

USSR didn't deny the holocaust.  They don't ever deny the crimes of fascism, which owes its existence to anti-communism, after all.   It may seem scarcely possible or necessary,  but they actually exaggerate the crimes of the Nazis in terms body count and luridness in their historiography.  What they did deny was the significance of such a large fraction of the victims being Jews.  They would say so many citizens or so and so country parishes at Auschwitz, not so many Jews.  In communist doctrine, religious and ethnic identity are shameful feudal attributes of corrupt societies communism will supplant.  Not recognizing the victim as Jews is in their opinion a way to do victims honor, it's like saying those victims can't be so base as to see themselves through ethnic or religious identities, why no doubt in their final moments they were almost ready to fight fascists like good communists.