Аннотация:Due to this, many foreign countries provide criminal prosecution of Holocaust denial (from the English holo- caust, from Ancient Greek Ὁλοκαύστος – “burnt offering”). It is understood in the broad and narrow sense of the word. Thus, in the first sense, the Holocaust means persecution and mass extermination by the Nazis of representatives of various ethnic groups (for example, the so-called by Na- zis “impaired” ones, such as Jews and Gypsies, or people of a certain nationality: Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Belar- usians) and social groups (Soviet prisoners of war, homo- sexual men, masons, hopelessly sick and disabled people, etc.) during the period of Nazi Germany. In the second, narrow sense – the persecution and mass extermination of Jews who lived in Germany in the period indicated above. Along with the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, this extermination of the Jewish people during the years of Nazi Germany is one of the most famous ex- amples of genocide in the 20th century. Sometimes this116 Sociopolitical Sciencesterm is used in a broad sense with a lowercase letter, and in a narrower one with a capital one.