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A recent history of America First streamer Nick Fuentes’ Holocaust denial

Fuentes — who has called the Holocaust “fake,” “preposterous,” and “completely exaggerated” — now says he is “so sick” of being labeled a denier

Written by Jack Wheatley

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Amid a wave of conservative infighting last year over his appearances on right-leaning online shows, white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes remarked on his own program in December that he was “so sick” of being labeled a Holocaust denier. The very next day, during an interview with Piers Morgan, Fuentes mocked the question of how many Jewish people died in the Holocaust, saying: “I don’t know, I’m thinking maybe 7 million, what’s the number? Seven, 6 million? Something like that. Eight million?” He added that it “could maybe even be more than that, upwards of 10.”

Days before the interview, Fuentes told his “groyper” supporters that answering this way was part of a deliberate strategy to downplay and dismiss the Holocaust. “I’ll say it’s 300,000, I’ll say it’s 100 million because I want you to know that I don’t care,” he explained. “I want you to know that I don’t take it seriously.”

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust denial is “any attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jews,” when 6 million Jewish people were killed, including claims that “the Holocaust was invented or exaggerated by Jews as part of a plot to advance Jewish interests.”

In addition to casting doubt on the number of Jewish people who were killed, Fuentes has denied or questioned whether the Holocaust happened, denied that the Nazis used gas chambers, and claimed that Jewish people “weaponize” the Holocaust as “atrocity propaganda.” He has also frequently downplayed and mocked the genocide.

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  • Despite his history of openly antisemitic rhetoric, Fuentes has recently appeared on a variety of right-leaning online shows, including Louder with Crowder, The Tucker Carlson Show, the PBD Podcast, and more. This slew of appearances has seemingly earned him increased viewership and mentions from popular right-leaning online show hosts (though emerging research indicates his growing popularity may be aided in part by foreign bot farms). Fuentes’ increased public visibility follows a concerning pattern of Holocaust denial among Republican polling respondents — The Manhattan Institute found in a 2025 poll that 37% of polled Republicans believe the Holocaust “was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe.” Fuentes has bragged that Generation Z doesn’t believe in the Holocaust, saying, “We won. Holocaust deniers won.”

    Here’s a short history of Fuentes’ statements denying the Holocaust over the past few years, including during his America First streams:

  • Fuentes has called the Holocaust “fake,” “propaganda,” and said it “didn't happen the way they said it did”

    • In November 2025, Fuentes called the Holocaust “a Jewish bedtime story.” He added: “We’re just sick of hearing about it. Yeah, we want to make jokes about it because we don’t give a shit about it.” [Rumble, America First, 11/11/25]
    • In September 2025, Fuentes described the Holocaust as an “alleged war crime” and said “the manner, the method, the results are disputed.” He went on, claiming: “I think it's actually a lot less important to get the actual facts exactly right than to simply say it's being used as atrocity propaganda.” He concluded: “I think it suffices to say that it didn't happen the way they said it did because they said a lot of things about it and so much of it is ridiculous. It's probably exaggerated. And what's more important is you're not allowed to question it because it's atrocity propaganda.” [Rumble, America First, 9/10/25]
    • In February 2025, Fuentes called Schindler’s List — a film that “follows the true story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust” — “propaganda.” Fuentes said, “Just like with the Holocaust, they reenacted the liberation of the camps — fiction — and recorded it to create propaganda, just like they made Schindler’s List.” [Rumble, America First, 2/5/25; Prime Video, accessed 2/6/26]
    • Two days later, Fuentes said it was in college when he started “realizing the Holocaust was fake.” Discussing his time in college, Fuentes described himself as a “red-pilled NatSoc normie,” which seemingly refers to national socialist or neo-Nazi, and said, “I was like a normie that was emerging into, like, realizing the Holocaust was fake, realizing Jews control the world, like, full-on race realism.” [Rumble, America First, 2/7/25; ADL, accessed 2/6/26]
    • On the Fresh & Fit podcast in July 2023, Fuentes stated, “I don’t believe in the Holocaust.” He went on to say: “I don’t believe there were gas chambers. I don’t believe it was 6 million. I also don’t believe that there was ever an order given out that said OK, you know, we’re going to kill them all.” [Media Matters, 7/12/23]
    • While responding to a question about the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, Fuentes said in May 2023: “The whole thing is just preposterous.” [Rumble, America First, 5/31/23]

  • Fuentes has repeatedly mocked the Holocaust and denied that 6 million Jewish people died

    • Fuentes said in May 2025 that “They say 6 million died. Probably it was less. Probably it was far fewer than 6 million.” He also said: “To the extent that there are or were Nazis or there was Jewish suffering, there's nothing criminal or I would say even immoral when they say we're minimizing the suffering.” [Rumble, America First, 5/13/25]
    • In March 2025, celebrating America over Europe, Fuentes said: “We get to say whatever we want on the internet. We get to deny the Holocaust.” [Rumble, America First, 3/4/25]
    • In March 2025, Fuentes mocked “the alleged Holocaust of roughly 6 million Jews, give or take some millions.” [Rumble, America First, 3/11/25]
    • In February 2025, Fuentes claimed his studio was too hot, saying: “It's like 2 million, 6 million degrees. It feels like an oven in here or something.” He added: “It’s 6 million degrees, it feels like an oven in here or something. Which is very inhumane. That's very inhumane. It's the worst atrocity in history. Oy vey, it’s starting to feel like an oven in here. Anyway, I feel like I’m being thrown on a great pyre with millions of bodies day in and day out and they’re all burning up at a record pace.” [Rumble, America First, 2/19/25]
    • In February 2025, a supporter asked Fuentes, “How many Yeezy swastika shirts did you buy?” to which he responded: “I bought 6 million — do you believe me?” [Rumble, America First, 2/11/25]
    • In September 2024, complaining that people call him and his followers Nazis, Fuentes asked: “What did the Nazis do that was so terrible? The Holocaust?” [Rumble, America First, 9/25/24]
    • Fuentes also made a remark about the temperature in his studio in August 2024 and said, “It's like an oven in here. It's like 6 million degrees.” He went on, saying: “I'm feeling like a chocolate chip cookie. Feels like an oven in here. Feels like an oven disguised as a studio, but it's actually a death chamber. I hope I'll be OK. I hope it's not some sort of genocidal torture device. That would be terrible. But it seems unlikely. That seems like that would not make a lot of sense.” [Rumble, America First, 8/31/24]
    • In June 2024, Fuentes described the Holocaust as “fake Jewish suffering” and stated: “In actuality, October 7 and the Holocaust are very alike because they're both fake.” He said: “No one is denying that Jewish people died during World War II or were killed by the Nazis. … What is disputed is that Jewish people were turned into lampshades and bars of soap during the Holocaust. … Or that 6 million of them died. I don’t think 6 million of them died. Or that they were put in makeshift gas chambers that were made to look like showers but were actually gas chambers. I don't think that was real either.” [Rumble, America First, 6/7/24]
    • In August 2023, after stating that his “groyper” movement is “America First … not Holocaust First,” he called Generation Z “Generation Zyklon.” He also said: “My religion is not the Holocaust. It's not a blasphemy to say that 6 million didn't die.” [Rumble, America First, 8/12/23]
    • In July 2023, Fuentes complained that Jewish people “bitch and moan about the so-called 6 million Jews that died.” He added, “Do the Jews ever talk about the 100 million whites that died in World War II?” [Rumble, America First, 7/29/23]

  • Fuentes has questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers, saying “that’s not real”

    • In March 2024, Fuentes said he didn’t “buy” that the Nazis used gas chambers. Fuentes says: “If people wanted to tell me 6 million died in the Holocaust, I'd say OK, fine. If people want to say there were gas chambers, I'd say yeah, I don't know if I buy that.” [Media Matters, 3/12/24]
    • Fuentes said in September 2023: “What the Jews claim is that 6 million were exterminated with trick gas chambers, and that's the part I don't believe.” He added: “Six million? I don’t think so. Gas chambers? I don’t think so.” He went on, “I think the whole thing is completely exaggerated.” [Rumble, America First, 9/22/23]
    • In April 2023, Fuentes said Nazi gas chambers were “like a Hollywood movie. Of course that's not real.” [Rumble, America First, 4/11/23]
    • In March 2023, Fuentes complained: “If you say I don't think there were gas chambers, you must hate Jews, you're an antisemite.” He went on: “If you say I don't think it was 6 million — antisemite. If you say I think they hide behind that tragedy — antisemite.” [Rumble, America First, 3/13/23]

  • Fuentes has claimed Jewish people have “weaponized” the Holocaust for political gain, calling it “atrocity propaganda”

    • In December 2025, Fuentes claimed Jewish people “have weaponized this atrocity against my civilization in order to further your own political objectives.” He said: “To tell you the truth, I don't know how many Jews died during the Holocaust. I don't care. I don’t care. And I’ll say it’s 300,000, I’ll say it’s 100 million because I want you to know that I don’t care. I want you to know that I don’t take it seriously.” [Rumble, America First, 12/9/25]
    • In September 2025, Fuentes said Jewish people “exploit the Holocaust as atrocity propaganda to prevent people from noticing or questioning their rule.” [Rumble, America First, 9/20/25]
    • Fuentes said in July 2025 that the Holocaust and October 7 “are being used as emotional blackmail to guilt the native populations into accepting a melting pot, multiracial, diverse, tolerant society.” He went on: “This has allowed a small minority that is both a religious and ethnic minority, which is 2% of the population, to rise up and become disproportionately represented and influential in media, Hollywood, finance, banking, government.” [Rumble, America First, 7/25/25]
    • In April 2025, Fuentes said “the victim narrative of the Holocaust is the ideological foundation of all of the pro-diversity, human rights, tolerance — it’s basically the pillars of modern liberalism.” He added: “Emerging from World War II, the Americans, the British, they got together and said how can we prevent from ever happening again, another Holocaust, another Hitler, another totalitarian, racialist, fascist regime like the Nazis? They said we have to promote diversity.” [Rumble, America First, 4/16/25]
    • Fuentes stated in March 2025: “Clearly the Holocaust is used for political purposes.” He added, “That reason alone is enough to scrutinize the narrative, even if not necessarily the details or other aspects of it.” [Rumble, America First, 3/7/25]