Not Six Million nor Thirty Thousand: From "Holocaust Revisionism" to "State Terrorism" Denial in Argentina, 1945-2016.

In early 2016, Dario Lopérfido— then Buenos Aires city’s minister of culture— made headlines when he claimed that “ there were not thirty thousand desaparecidos (dis appeared) in Argentina.”1 This blunt statement sparked controversy, as many perceived it as an attempt to minimize the brutality and extent of the repressive plan undertaken by the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (Pro cess of National Reor ga ni za tion, 1976–83). It did not stand alone, for this claim was also championed by apologists of the Armed Forces such as denouncer of socalled “terrorists” Cecilia Pando; selfproclaimed “revisionists” like Nicolás Márquez, and Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims (CELTyV) cofounder Victoria Villaroel.2 All shared an ethos, presenting themselves as defenders of “historical truth,” “complete memory,” and “silenced victims” against “official