Iran is holding a conference on wheather the Holocaust happend. Did it?

Question

I say it did. And I also think 6 million Jews did die. Maybe more. What do you think?

Is Iran going endup at war with Israel?

Answer 1

I worked at the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives for ten years. One of the largest photo collections we had was the U.S. Army photo collection, which included all the official U.S. Army photos taken in the World War II. In my time at the Archives, I saw tens of thousands of photographs of piles of emaciated corpses in liberated concentration camps. I'm convinced that the pictures I saw were not duplicated over and over again. Even corpses piled in heaps still retain their individual appearance. To even suggest that the Holocaust is a myth is a laughable charge in the face of the overwhelming photographic evidence to the contrary I saw almost EVERY DAY. I don't normally sling this ugly word around often or casually, but Holocaust deniers are fools, just out and out fools. They are willfuly blind.

Answer 2

it is in elementary words political. Ahmadinejad isn't wondering the history of the Magna Carta, or the fall of the Roman Empire - and those activities had a techniques, a techniques, a techniques a lot less documentation than the Holocaust. also, there stay witnesses of the demise camps. i have not heard of any residing witnesses of the statement of Independence, why isn't the truth of the 4th of July being voted upon? interior the mid-twentieth century, the bandit international locations attacked different international locations at will. right now, the bandits salary public kinfolk individuals wars and hearth up enmity, arising crises out of entire fabric. Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad, only thugs to be brushed off. And this is all baloney besides. We play into Ahmadinejad's fingers regardless of techniques from discussing it, and the media seems unaware of that. If this elements some thing sensible to international discourse, i'd be surprised.

Answer 3

If Iran decides to disavow the Holocaust, the reasons will not be based on actual historic evidence. Now whether they will go to war with Israel, I don't know--you can't truly predict the possible actions of *anyone*.

The Answerers above have done a good job at answering your question. However, I thought I'd add a bit to their responses.

When Allied troops liberated the concentration, labor, and death camps, the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, some of the units flew in film crews in order to record the state of some of the camps. Those in the units knew that no one would believe the death and devastation on humanity caused in these camps unless they could see it. The U.S. got top film makers and film analysts to authenticate what was recorded. Britain's films were eventually pieced together to make the documentary film "Memory of the Camps" (there's a link to the film in my sources).

Unfortunately, there has been some "non-fiction" books written to discount the Holocaust. These books cite the "evidence" gathered from British "historian" David Irving. Irving, a long-time Holocaust denier, was convicted of denying the Holocaust in 1989, though recently recanted by saying that Jews (though not necessarily others) were gassed. His original arguments (the ones cited by books) were that no one was ever gassed in camps, the Nazi pogrom was the work of people impersonating stormtroopers, and that Hitler tried to protect the Jews.

Answer 4

Evidence is that it did.
The anti-Holocaust people maintain it was all fabricated, but things like the movie clips of the dead bodies and the incredibly wasted-away survivors of Concentration Camps would be hard to mock up even today.
Plus, the Germans were good record-keepers. Their own records show names and numbers into the hundreds of thousands that they either killed directly or who died of 'natural causes' in their camps! An awful effort to go to by the 'liars' claiming there was a Holocaust, don't you think?

And in practical terms - I met a guy (born a Jew) in the 1970s whose family consisted of him, siblings and his two parents. There were no aunts, uncles, grand-parents or any other relatives.
Yet his father had grown up in a Jewish village in Eastern Europe. In 1937, two years before the war began (remember, the rest of the world was fighting it two years before the USA got involved, if you're an American), there had been a big family reunion of over 300 people.
The Germans invaded and deported the villagers.
After the war not one other person from the village related to the father could be traced by the Red Cross or UN. By the 1970s, the situation hadn't changed - 299+ relatives who had been around before the Germans invaded were never seen afterwards.
Just one example and thousands more tell the same sort of story.

Judge for yourself - BUT - do it on the evidence. The anti-Holocaust people start by knowing the answer ("There was no Holocaust") and work backwards to 'prove' it. Most of the rest of the world works from the evidence and - unfortunately - have to say there was!

Answer 5

Of course it did. No matter what crazy idea you come up with there will always be someone willing to believe it. There is a flat earth society for example.

Holocaust denial, in this case and in most others, is often politically motivated.

As to the comments about Dafur: yes genocide is transpiring there and yes the U.S. is doing nothing to stop it. Neither is any other nation - what is your point? Why assail the U.S. particularly for inaction instead of any other country? Do you believe we should send troops anywhere in the world a people are being persecuted and murdered? Would you have us send troops to Tibet to fight the Chinese army for example? There would be an awful lot of fighting we would be doing and I'm not sure the world would be a better place as a result.

Answer 6

May be they should read a book by Primo Levi like 'The Drowned and The Saved' or 'If This Is A Man' if they're not sure. Then, perhaps sit back and THINK about it for a while. After that, have an 'informed' discussion about how to prevent such a thng ever happening again.

Answer 7

While living in Chicago during the late 80's, I met an elderly man who had numbers tattooed on his arm. The neighborhood I lived in was mainly Jewish and Polish, and after meeting this man I began to notice the tattoos on other older people, from time to time. I don't think they keep them so that they can remember, but so that we will not forget. The houlocaust happened, there is no question about it. What's worse, we have not yet learned how to keep it from happening, over and over again, in places all over the world. It is happening right now while I sit here typing.

Answer 8

Sadly it did happen. A lot of my relatives from my grandmother's side died during holocaust. My grandmother herself was in the ghetto. My great grandfather was one of the few death camp survivors. My grandmother's family escaped from the ghetto with the help of their Christian neighbors in Ukraine. They literally begged the nazis to release my family and told them that they got mistaken for Jews and were not really Jews and showed the nazis few crosses as if in "Look, they forgot them at home!". They were released, but my family still suffered in the ghetto, before being released . Other relatives of my family unfortunately did not make it. They were brutally murdered and beaten by the nazis. My great grandfather was in a death camp building some bridge in Ukraine. He was in his 30's at the time, but looked like he was 90. His teeth were broken, he was beaten brutally. Finally he was at the stage of near-dying when nazis decided to release him and another person. My grandfather made it to his village, but the other person took a shortcut and was caught and killed by nazis.Look aside from thousands of eyewitness accounts of horrors of the Holocaust, there are a LOT of nazi photographs and videotapes of this event. Nazis loved to take pictures. They did not expect to lose a war and to for all those tapes to wind up in Allies' hands. Holocaust is an unfortunate event, that is well documented. Jews were not the only ones to die during the Holocaust, other minorities and those who were against Nazi ideology died as well.

Answer 9

No matter of discussion......!!!
In Italy we have a peculiar way to say that could fit very well this dumb conference and all the participants. Our Italian saying is :
"La mamma degli idioti è sempre incinta" which literal translation is "Idiots mum is always pregnant". Never ending !!

Answer 10

The evidence is still there if they wanted to do any studies. For nay-sayers all they would have to do is DNA testing on grave sites and it would easily show Jewish DNA traits. They won't ask, though, because they might get the right answer. (They're not really looking for that)