why is it that some people believe that the holocaust never happened?

Question

I remember hearing somewhere, I think it was the news that Mel Gibson's father and the leader of Iran believed that the holocaust never occurred.
How can any one be so stupid as to believe it never happened.

Answer 1

It is the latest form of antisemitism. It is an absolute insult to anyone who perished, was tortured, humilated, and persecuted and annhilated or anyone whose family members or their friends also perished) during WW2. It is a smack in the face of even the non-Jews who suffered. The ironic thing about denying the Holocaust is that it is the most documented event to ever happen in the history of the world: because the Nazis were so meticulous at taking notes, films, and photos. It is because of the Nazis themselves that we have so much PROOF about the holocaust. Over 1 million CHILDREN WERE ANNIHILATED IN THE HOLOCAUST: They burned children alive, and bashed their heads against brick walls if they cried. All pregnant woman, all children under 15 and anyone frail or old was immediately put to death. Anyone who can kill an innocent man or women, let alone a helpless, defense child is pure evil. The camps were hell. No food, no water, typhus, diseases, rats, tuberculosis and let us not we forget the humiliation and torture and death. The Jews were forced to work to death or were killed immidiately.

In one death camp: Sobibor, Jewish prisoners rose up and killed about 20 SS guards and most escaped. In retaliation for the event, the SS killed 40,000 people!!!!!!

Answer 2

One of the primary reasons certain people reject the holocaust is because they do not wish to see the state of Israel as sovereign. However, these people are not stupid. They cannot simply pick up a history book to learn the truth. In Iran, children are taught that the holocaust was created by Western nations to justify creating the nation of Israel. These are not stupid people--only mislead people. Not every nation have the freedom of information we, in the west, take for granted. Many Iranians do not "refuse to beleive" in the holocaust. They have never been given the opportunity to learn the truth.

Answer 3

The holocaust was so over the top horrible that some anti-Semitics begin making conspiracy theories. All anyone has to do is watch those old reels of holocaust victims being bulldozed into mass graves. Anyone with half a functioning brain can realize that the holocaust really did happen.

Answer 4

Most people avoid confronting what discomforts them, or challenges their own established view of the world, or belief system. In fact few of us are free of it, in one way or the other. Those who deny recorded historical events like the Holocaust (in which gipsies, and many others apart from the majority Jews, also suffered) are merely extreme cases. It's curious that Israelis, in occupying Palestine, using terrorism to get Britain out of it, ethnically cleansing Arab villages and so on, have inflicted on others much of the horrors that were previously imposed on them - short of gas chambers. And now most (but not all) find it impossible to admit it. It just goes to show how human, and vulnerable, we all are.

Answer 5

because some racial bigots feel that the holocaust was the reason the Jews got their own country and that it was an elaborate hoax in order to get that.

Anyone who thinks there was no holocaust should be sent on a guided tour of all the concentration camps in Europe.

Answer 6

Partly it’s because they think Jews only invented the story to gain more influence, partly because it’s really too unbelievable.
Could you ever imagine such thing? Millions were degraded in a most perfect way... The worst thing wasn’t killing so many people based on one common characteristic but they way they dehumanised them. Well, you surely saw/heard/read enough stories about it.
Finally, there is a point in their remarks... I mean, how can you prove anything from the history? Perhaps all of the history is a lie and we live in an illusin created by machines who suck our energies... :)))

Answer 7

To put down the Jews. Many people like to blame them for their own problems.

Answer 8

i think that they just have a selective memory. it happend not even that long ago.. they should wake up and read some history books

Answer 9

That's a very stupid question posed by a stupid questioner. Every body is free whether or not to believe something. You must not
impose your beliefs to the other people. 2ndly you are not allowed to call others with bad words! If I call you STUPID, it's because you have used the same word to others, meanwhile you should know I am a pagan.

Answer 10

they would perfer to keep their head buried in the sand and think they are "horror" stories like the boogieman