Why do so many people get hostile when I posted a question about questioning the Holocaust?

Question

I thought that's what all good historians do , question the past . Is this the history section or the religious section ?

don't assume you know me

Answer 1

I don't know in what way you were questioning the Holocaust but I would assume the only reason people would get hostile with you would be it you did not believe it existed or if you thought it was justified. To ask about certain events to learn about it intelligently is one thing but to doubt the accuracy of it is an insult to the survivors and their families.

Answer 2

The reason people get angry at the question is two fold:

1. It's historical FACT that the holocaust happened. Asking to prove it did... is denying the known FACTS and therefore gives an indication of antiseminism.

2. The only people who have recently questioned the FACTS around the holocaust are those who are known to harbour anti-jewish opinions. You asking this question puts you in the same catagory.

And Yes, it is good to question the past.. but only to question the unknown, unproven history... it's moronic to question the known FACTS.

Hope this answers the question.

Answer 3

Why you think. You really think, that with all the evidence, facts and all that happened, a good historian will question the Holocaust? You are mental

Answer 4

I side with WRKEY.

This is a part of RECENT history. There are many Americans today whose relatives died in the holocaust. My dad is 84 years old and was a serviceman in WWII. I am sure there are servicemen alive who remember liberating the death camps. My friend (54 yrs old) knows through her parents of relatives who were lost in the Holocaust.

This is not just a religious issue as you tend to think.
"Millions of other minorities also perished in the Holocaust in addition to this figure (RE: Jews of Europe). About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or
"undesirable": Poles (6 million killed, of whom 3 million were Catholic/Christian, and the rest Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 500,000 and 1.2 million killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses, Atheists,[citation needed] Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, Eastern Christians, and Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed."

Answer 5

Because that was a very emotional and horrendous experience for the family's and survivors of the Holocaust. Too many innocent people died then for no other reason than their religion.

Answer 6

This is a very sensitive subject for many people. Some people want to act like it never happened. some people wish everyone would get over it. Still others say it should happen again now. Everyone has their own opinion and has a need or desire to be heard.

Answer 7

It was a murderous thing the Holocaust. This issue is related to things like religion and race, so that's why I believe it is polemic to question it.

Answer 8

It's just that history is pretty clear about the Holocaust, if you are trying to deny it ever happened, you are going against nearly ever source and countless Jews that first-hand witnessed it!

Answer 9

Weren't you ever told there are some things that you don't talk about in polite company? eg. death penalty, abortion, politics, the Holocaust?? People perceive you by the questions you put out there.

Answer 10

I've read and didn't bother answering your "question". You said "I want hear evidence" You got very good answers, then went on to denigrate the people who answered.

Just by that I believe that you are at best a TROLL, at worst well don't ask.