Why do some people deny the Holocaust ever happened? Could something like that happen again?

Question

Why do people deny the Holocaust ever happened, and say that the Jews dwell on it way too much? From what I know about it, it was beyond terrible..and I think those who are Jewish are right about talking about it...because what if some Hitler-type maniac came to power in some other nation...and decided to try and wipe out other minorities/religions/races just to create some 'super race'? Could it happen again?

And I don't believe the Jewish people should talk about it only amongst themselves. Let their experiences serve as a wake-up call and a warning of what can happen if no one is vigilant enough to keep it from happening again.

Answer 1

Hitler, himself had dwarf-like features. The Holocaust definitely did happen--I've talked to people who have the tatoos from their concentration camps on them.

Some people are trying to say that all those people died of disease, etc (in which case it would still be the fault of the Nazis), but I know for a fact that those cremation ovens, and huge graves did exist.

I definitely believe that something like that could happen again--even here, in the US--God forbid.

Answer 2

Unfortunately racism will always be around. You can just look at anti-Semitic movements from the Neo-Nazis to the Klan. The Nazis believe that Hitler was some sort of prophet and that the Jews were really a race that descended from Satan. All of this came from an extremely slanted and twisted interpretation of the bible. It's such a shame that something like religion, which is meant to be good, is used as a catalyst for hatred and bigotry.

If anyone is in Washington D.C., check out the Holocaust Memorial Museum. When I went with my school group, I had the opportunity to meet a man who had survived through Auschwitz. I dare you to walk through and observe the museum and tell me that the Holocaust was fake.

Answer 3

I don't know why people deny it happened. Perhaps they think someone made it up, because it is too terrible to believe. I don't think something of that magnitude will happen again, but there are smaller instances of what power-hungry people call "ethnic cleansing," as if it were a bath or something. I don't think Jewish people can help remembering it, because it is still not that far in the past. Survivors are still alive, and most people only need to go back one to three generations to know someone who was involved.

Answer 4

People who deny that the Holocaust ever happened do not want to take responsibility for this terrible insult to humanity and their need to blame others for their shortcomings. That is why it most certainly can happen again and has happened again to other people/races/nationalities. There is no such thing as a super race, just super racists.

Answer 5

No one denies that it ever happned. We just don't think that it has anything to do with being Jewish and wish some people would stop acting like they are persecuted. The crimes of the "holocast" were committed against specific European Jews ONLY-mostly because of easy access and a simple, albeit faulty, method of distinguishing them. Maybe if they would stop isolating everyone with their claims about the plight of the Jewish and the crimes against the Jewish people, that ONLY THEY CAN ADEQUATELY RELATE TO AND ONLY THEY CAN FEEL, then the rest of the world will be free to view it as crimes against fellow human beings and develop proper compassion.

Similar practices can, have and probably do exist in remote (hidden) places of the world. The same thing can never occur, again, on such a large scale.

Answer 6

"take responsibility for it.".......right....."denial".....right....anti-Semitism, as well..... and terrible guilt because the West...mainly France and England.......could have stopped Hitler dead in his tracks anytime between 1932 and 1939 with a show of courage and force,,,,,,,but didn't....and some 30 million plus died in Europe before it was all over....English historian John Macelheny: "For evil to triumph, it is merely necessary that good men do nothing"
and can it happen again? Just in the last ten years :Milosevic's Serbia, T\the Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda, Sadamns Iraq, Darfur tonight as we read these answers on Yahoo.....there are some just plain flat out evil people out there, and "we sit comfortably at home because there are rough people ready to stand between us and that evil"..the quote is from George Orwell

Answer 7

Yes it could happen again and it does still happen. In Rwanda Africa over a million Tutsis were murdered in over three mounths.
death of Rwanda's Hutu president sparked a three-month slaughter of nearly one million ethnic Tutsis.

Immaculée Ilibagiza is a member of the United Nations Development Program. She survived the savage Rwanda genocide and has devoted her life to sharing the importance of the virtues of understanding and forgiveness

Answer 8

If we don't study history, it is destined to repeat itself. Why do they deny it? It is easier to live in a world with rose colored glasses. It is also empowering to get others to believe in their way of thinking or denial. I live in a Jewish area, I saw many with their arms tatooed with numbers above their hands. They wouldn't talk about it because it was too painful. It was not only Jews who died. Many Catholics, due to their outspoken objection died too. Gypsies, converts, anyone objecting the Nazi party, etc.
We can't be quiet anymore. We have to speak out loudly about injustice.

Answer 9

i think some people are scared to admit something like that has occured in the world they are living in, and others dont want the arian society to look as bad as it is/was. as for your question about if it could happen agian. i use a rule of thumb to this kind of question. if it happened once, it just showed you its possible, and anything is possible among men...anything.

Answer 10

it is happening, they call it genocide now, in Africa, Bosnia etc.and remember the Killing Fields in Cambodia