Poll: Did the Holocaust happen?

Question

What's the general consensus on this question? Yes, no, maybe so? Who knows.

Answer 1

The holocaust never happened.

Answer 2

Please *please* don't ask questions like this.

Historical facts are not subject to a popularity poll.

Even if you get a unanimous yes (which is most likely ... although there are a few neo-Nazis out there), it is just fundamentally, deeply *wrong* to say that every once and a while we need to take a poll to see if something like the holocaust is still "true."

The very fact that you have to ask says that the holocaust-deniers (the lowest rung on the ladder of historical revisionism) are making headway.

The holocaust deniers *live* for posts like these ... as some people can be fooled (like you have) to think that it is no longer a settled *fact*, but something that is subject to question.

It is the tactic of revisionism to periodically ask the question ... and over the years, decades after the event, people will wonder why this question is asked.

This isn't a stupid-but-harmless joke like asking whether we landed on the moon. This is a fact about the most systematic horrifying thing human beings have ever done to each other.

Please please, if you have any decency, don't ask questions like this.

Answer 3

There needs not be a "consensus" on whether or not the holocaust happened. THE HOLOCAUST DID HAPPEN!!! Whether or not people wish to believe that it happened; it happened.

There is paper evidence, film evidence, and first-hand accounts, either from those who experienced it or those who witnessed it. I have met former soldiers who liberated camps.

So, to suggest that it matters that some don't think it happened or it might have happened or no one knows if it really happened is to dismiss the abhorrent PROVEN reality that Hitler and the Nazis built "factories" for the sole purpose of systematically murdering 6 million Jews alone in addition to 6 million gays, mentally ill, deformed, gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, political opponents, and Christians of various denominations.

Answer 4

Yes, of course it did. For any of you revisionist historians out there, American troops went into Germany at the end of the war, liberating people from concentration camps, finding mass graves, photographing, documenting, and detailing evidence of the atrocities as they went. To specifically answer your question, THEY know. In addition to the incredible volumes of military documentation, many of them, as civilians, have written about it. Any efforts on the part of people trying to claim the Holocaust didn't happen essentially accuses those all those legions of American heros of being liars.

If you're one of them, I hope you have the grace to at least be secretly ashamed of yourself. And, if your efforts to cast doubt on whether or not this occured is due to a specific hatred of yours, perhaps targeting some ethnic, religious, racial, or social group also targeted by the Nazis, I'll hope right now for your sake that you never encounter people in your life who direct such hatred back at you, no matter how much you deserve it. I guarantee you won't like it.

Answer 5

Yes it happened. And was more terrible than can ever be imagined. Get some education. It can happen again, will happen again. There are literally hundreds of books by non Jews, people who suffered in the camps with them, saw the horror, witnessed the wholesale slaughter of babies, women, children, the experiments, everything. Some of them were American fliers and soldiers that somehow ended up in the camps and survived. I hope you are just young and not a finished product of the American education system. Start reading and learn for yourself.

Answer 6

Maybe not in the parallel universe you live in, but the probability of the holocaust in 20th century Europe is the same as the sun coming up tomorrow on this planet, earth.

Answer 7

There is no need for a consensus because it is a fact. Anyone who examines the evidence and comes to a contrary conclusion either has a learning disability or is a liar - no doubt motivated by evil and racism.

Answer 8

Yes, Mahmud Ahmadinedad, the Holocaust DID happen! Your hero Adolph Hitler was responsible!

Answer 9

"Who knows" you say? I know reality may be swirled around if you watch too much TV or sit in front of the computer for too long, but to question the existence of the Holocaust is ridiculous.

Answer 10

If you're really serious about taking this poll - you should talk to some of the veterans who liberated these camps, and to some of the survivors who were in the camps. I have.

Any body else's opinion to the contrary isn't even worth consideration.

Answer 11

Duh. Visit the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. and check out their photographs. Read "Night" by Elie Wiesel. Listen to people who survived the Holocaust who are still alive and talking about it today. Only a true moron would ever even hypothesize that it didn't happen.