Yet another blow to holocaust deniers.?

Question

Nazi sympathisers got yet another blow to their cause with this announcement;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_eu/nazi_archive_1
Now, anyone with more than a teaspoonfull of brain matter knows that the holocaust happened and that the figure of 6 million is low in comparison to the real numbers.
Now with the opening of these archives (what took so long?) the real numbers will emerge. And they won't be pretty.
Putting holocaust denyers futher out in the fringes of reality where they belong.

Answer 1

Yes it is! I didn't look at the article you linked but I think I know what you're talking about. I never understood how people could deny the holocaust. How can you deny something that clearly happened? Where there's survivors and pictures and evidence, and somehow millions of people unaccounted for? Stupid skinheads.

Answer 2

I have always maintained that there are two kinds of Holocaust denyers, each dangerous in their own way. The first kind are the conspiracy nuts who think it never happened at all, that it's all fiction. These people are dangerous because they are irrational and crazy.

The second kind of Holocaust denyer is the group that really scares me. These are the people who say, "Oh, the holocaust wasn't THAT bad." These people are usually rational and intelligent in many ways, but for some reason they want to dismiss the suffering that occurred.

Their logic summarized hyperbolically is, "Oh, only 5 million died during WWII and that was mostly of starvation so what's the big deal, how dare they complain about it."

Any effort to make any part of the horror of genocide tolerable they are opening the gate to allow it to happen again.

Answer 3

Sadly holocaust deniers are like 9/11 conspaircy people.
No matter how many facts to disprove them they will go on believing their fiction.

MORE INFORMATION:
Most people talk about the Jews.
I remember the other victims as well that being Christians, Pols, Russians, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally handicapp and all the other "undesireables"

Yet when liberals here the word holocaust all they come up with the Jews are whinning again.

To the person who like to lump the KKK in with conservatives please remember Byrd was a member of that organization.

Nor do liberals want to be reminded that FDR turn away of ship full of Jews that were avoiding the holocaust.

Serveral still die because they had no where to go by back to Holland.

Answer 4

Yes - I agree with you entirely. The more information like this reaches the public domain, is broadcasted and is worked on by historians, the better it will be for our understanding of what went on and the more it will marginalise the conspiracy idiots who deny the Holocaust ever took place.

Sadly, as one of your other answerers has already stated, there will still be those whose faith (and it does fall into the category of faith) will always set them diametrically opposed to these facts. They will call the files spurious, they will call into question any interpretation of the information. We must ensure these people are not allowed to peddle their information unchallenged.

Answer 5

Why do people deny that it even happened? Is it always denied in order to give Conservatism a boost? Seems that way. Conservative bastions, like the KKK, are onboard with this effort to deny. I guess if they can make Hitler look friendlier, Bush and the rest will feel better about their political regime's straight line of ancestry from the old guy himself.

Answer 6

I remember reading many years ago that the UN looked over these documents, and found that the death camps killed 14 million people, 6 million of them were Jewish.
It would be great if the non-Jewish people murdered would be remembered.