I have a set of the last Britannica published in a standard multi-volume set, the 1970 edition. After that, they started splitting the set up into Macropedia, Micropedia, etc. and cut down the length of historical articles immensely.
That 1970 edition has no article on the "holocaust." None of my older sets of various brands of encyclopedias even mention the word anywhere. I've checked. It seems to be a new concept that I didn't personally become aware of until later in the 70s.
Back in the 1980s, as a content test, I looked up Niall of the Nine Hostages, a famous Irish king from over 1,000 years ago. In the 1970 Britannica, there was a long article, a good chunk of a column, about him. In the next edition of Britannica, which was the split up crappy version, the article was less than half as long.
As Q wrote, people need to look at original hardcopy books and see for themselves what they say.
I have a set of the last Britannica published in a standard multi-volume set, the 1970 edition. After that, they started splitting the set up into Macropedia, Micropedia, etc. and cut down the length of historical articles immensely.
That 1970 edition has no article on the "holocaust." None of my older sets of various brands of encyclopedias even mention the word anywhere. I've checked. It seems to be a new concept that I didn't personally become aware of until later in the 70s.
Back in the 1980s, as a content test, I looked up Niall of the Nine Hostages, a famous Irish king from over 1,000 years ago. In the 1970 Britannica, there was a long article, a good chunk of a column, about him. In the next edition of Britannica, which was the split up crappy version, the article was less than half as long.
As Q wrote, people need to look at original hardcopy books and see for themselves what they say.
You can download the 11th edition of Britannica from Archive.org and the previous ten editions and supplements from https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/188936619