Why would anyone try to deny the very real occurrence of the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Because they don't want to face the truth. They may be the kind of people that are compassionate and can't rationalize an occurrence like the Holocaust, or if they allowed their mind the register that it was so, they might have to do something about it. And doing something about it is too much work.

Answer 2

There are a couple reasons for this. One is that many times people tend to try to escape the truth and would rather live with a lie. Another is that the Holocaust is a period of shame to many. Those who were alive during that time cannot believe that they let the Holocaust happen. Also other nations want to say the Holocaust did not happen because they did not care enough to save the Jews during most of the Holocaust as many say they came very late.

Answer 3

I'd LIKE to think that the idea of human beings perpetrating that horror upon the world is too horrible to really have happened. Unfortunately, this is not the case and those who deny the holocaust are as evil as Hitler and his cohorts and should be publicly denounced whenever possible. Hitler got as far as he did because the world stood by and let it happen just as it is doing today in many parts of the world. Africa is a good example.

Answer 4

How do you know how real it was? Were you there? There is little doubt that many jews were massacred along with others considered enemies of the third Reich, but it appears to me that
it is overblown to be only about Jews. I went to a military school
as a very young man (13-15 yrs old) and they showed us actual
footage of when they liberated the concentration camps. I had
never heard anything about it and found it distressing. However
much is claimed about gas chambers, etc.
What I saw was hundreds of bodies, many still alive piled up.
All were obviously severly malnourished and practically skeletons
I have always wondered that if the Germans were intent on gassing them, why are they so malnourished? And why would
they still be alive? It seemed to me that they were starved to
death and out of millions of these people - how would you determine how many of these were Jews? I have not heard much discussion about why the Germans would want to kill them. Some claim that the gas chambers in Auswich, Poland
was fabricated after the fact and used as a tourist attraction.
Their logic is that there is not documented evidence of the Germans building it, when they were meticulous about keeping
records of everything else, even stuff that was evidence against
them.

Answer 5

Something that the Nazi's were very good at, propaganda. I too can't believe it when people say the holocaust never happened, when soldiers saw the camps, and there are pictures of the piles of bodies laying in those camps.

Answer 6

They don't want their role models being viewed in an ugly way. Think of Hitler and his army of youth, they were blind-sided with power and a feeling of immortality. Wouldn't it be easier to deny the holocaust then to change half of their beliefs?

Answer 7

I don't know-its so retarded. I guess its kinda like how people don't want to admit that slavery and Jim Crow doesn't still affect African Americans to this day....The Holocaust was terrible...I cried while reading about it....

Answer 8

because then they have a reason to still be racial and religious bigots. However, the ones I've heard about are just cruel people anyway, I think they all should be jailed on princpal.

Answer 9

To verify their antisematic ways.

Answer 10

People are afraid of the truth.