I asked this question just out of my curiousty,without any bad purposes!
2006-08-31 12:09:29 · 27 answers · asked by m_saamaan 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If you mean the deliberate slaughter of the Jews and other minorities in Nazi Germany - yes, it's true. We might wish it wasn't and there are sick individuals out there who claim that it isn't - but it is. No doubt whatsoever.
The ihr mentioned below as a source is The Institute for Historical Review - a pretended historical society dedicated to proving that the Holocaust never happened for anti-semitic reasons.
The lie that the number of victims has gone down is a deliberate confusion between the original estimate of 6 millions for total victims and an estimate of about 4 million made immediately after the war by the Russians for the number who were murdered at Auschwitz.
The Russians worked out how many could have died there, based on the number of people who could have been killed if the gas chambers and crematoria had worked at their theoretical maximum capacity. Careful work since then has reduced the numbers who died in Auschwitz to approximately 1.1 million while calculating and including the numbers killed at other camps and by the Einsatzgruppen - groups of soldiers and police whose job it was to follow the German army advance and wipe out those the Nazis disapproved of - mainly Jews but also physically and mentally handicapped people, those in positions of power in the governments they overthrew and gypsies - amongst others.
Look carefully at anyone who says they disbelieve the Holocaust took place and you'll find an anti-semite.
The Holocaust has been recognised in both British and American courts as something no reputable historian can deny.
2006-08-31 12:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by UKJess 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
~Take a tour of the camps, or any of them, and take a good look at the ovens. Well used. Impressive and moving experience.
The story is true to a point. What is generally left out of the story is the fact that the Jews were not the only ones killed in the camps, and, in fact, make up less then half the victims. What is also overlooked is the fact that the Nazi's didn't invent the idea. They borrowed from many examples from the past, not the least of which was the US reservation system and Indian policy. Also swept under the rug is the general knowledge of the world at large of what was going on and the silent approval of it.
The Nazis were far from unique. Similar "cleansing" campaign have occured in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Armenia, Uganda and several other places in the past century, and have been common throughout history.
Man will be man.
2006-08-31 13:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Alas,..... to forget the past, we are condemned to relive it....so it has been written and so it shall ever be. It was nice to see the directors of the pharmaceutical conglomerate (IG Farben) squirm on the stand when the prosecutors presented bills of lading for 4-1/2 tons of Zclon-B per month delivered to the SS! There's a ton of evidence on the holocaust but that won't stop the evilness in man to present itself again at some future date.
2006-08-31 13:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually the Red Army stopped their advance against an enemy that had managed to butcher thirty million of their fellow citizens to build Aushchitz and put several thousand completely emaciated actors there just to make the Nazis look bad. (Can you read the dripping sarcasm) OF COURSE THE HOLOCAUST IS TRUE
2006-08-31 12:32:14 · answer #4 · answered by Johnny Canuck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do you mean the historical event or the tv series? the historical event is definitely true. the tv series was not based on a true story, but the plot could have happened that way.
2006-08-31 13:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by nerdyhermione 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the worst things that humans have done to other humans. It happened, there are Holocaust memorials and museums in most major cities.
2006-09-04 04:27:14 · answer #6 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitely true unless you postulate a conspiracy of gigantic proportions. furthermore, so many other genocides in the 20th (and sadly now in the 21st) centuries that would have to be explained away to say that sort of thing does not occur
2006-08-31 12:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by larry n 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is absolutely and totally true.
I can be this firm about because relatives of my wife and myself were with the American forces which liberated some of these death camps.
In addition I have know people who were in these camps as prisoners.
2006-08-31 12:13:48 · answer #8 · answered by Randy 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
This is not a story. You need to study history.
2006-08-31 13:26:18 · answer #9 · answered by Dean B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its absolutely true. You can see the evidence for yourself at the Holocaust Museum in DC.
Why would you have doubts?
2006-08-31 12:16:04 · answer #10 · answered by kitkat 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋