Believe it or not, there are some people who STILL claim that the Holocaust never took place, but one would think that the photos of emaciated prisoners, gas chambers, crematoria, and mass graves would be sufficient proof.
2007-03-22 03:53:21 · 10 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm sorry that it's in the Politics section. I meant to put it in the History section.
2007-03-22 03:56:40 · update #1
usafatceo: I don't know if you're familiar with the story of Ilse Koch, but she was known as the "B***h of Buchenwald". She took tattooed skins from prisoners and had lampshades made from them! Also, how do explain away the sadistic "experiments" Dr. Josef Mengele performed on some of the prisoners at Auschwitz?
2007-03-22 04:17:29 · update #2
usafatceo: I haven't forgotten about the Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in the US or the atrocities that were committed by the Japanese during the war. However, I would also like to know how one would justify the "internment" of Jews, Gypsies, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents by the Nazis.
2007-03-22 04:39:57 · update #3
They are just denying it because that is easier to espouse and get people to listen to than saying that you thought that the Nazi's had a good idea.
usafatceo: half of my family went through that. half of them made it out of Europe, the rest didn't. you care to back any of that up? how was my great aunt who was 11 years old at the time she disappeared an enemy prisoner? her infant brother? I cant wait to hear this.
2007-03-22 03:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by bluestareyed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are some very awful people out there.
I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. It is an extremely jarring experience. What struck me is not how "foreign" everything looked, but how "normal" and "average." The setting for many of the photos (Germany, 1930s and 1940s) was only a half-step away from, say, America in the 1950s and 1960s - the buildings, cars, people all looked like what we are familiar with. A seemingly civilized modern Western democracy. It's more frightening because it was not some medieval setting, but something we could easily relate to.
It could happen anywhere.
Truth be told, photos of the segregated South in the US are similarly eerie. Again, it's a different scale of criminality, but not totally dissimilar. Look for photos of lynchings in the South in the 20s and you will be sick. Happy crowds of men, women and children, out for a picnic or for fireworks - except there's a corpse swinging from a tree! The evil is more horrific because the setting is otherwise totally "normal."
My Mom lived in the South in the 30s, and also had the misfortune of being in Europe in the summer of 1939. She saw some very bad stuff. A few of my distant relatives were "guests" of Mr. Hitler during the war, but got out.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans DIED to defeat what the Nazis stood for. My feelings about Holocaust deniers are too vulgar to post.
2007-03-22 11:20:18 · answer #2 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How sad,, and how easy it is to fool the masses.
1) they were prisoners interned just like the Japanese in America.
2) the Germans had no food to feed them. So they starved. That's were the bony pictures came from.
3) they had no where to put the body's so they Cremated them.We would have done the same to keep down disease.
4) at the end, things were breaking down and the solders all left, so the remainder had to fend for themselves. That's were the pictures of them standing around looking dazed came from.
5) A good example of all this is the Henderson-ville prison of the Confederacy. The prisoners there were in the same shape, skin and bones, many dying every day, no food or medicine and no won would ever believe that the moral southern people would do that on purpose. And they didn't. They simply didn't have it themselves.
Remember the winners get to right the history books. Try not to be fooled to easily.
Strange how no one wants to say anything about how our "FRIENDS NOW",,the Japanese, treated their prisoners. Mengele, he was part time compared to the experiments of the Jap's. Mass murder of entire cities, forced brothels, goes on and on.
Only the Jews are recognized.
strange
2007-03-22 11:13:05 · answer #3 · answered by usafatceo 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think that any one can deny any thing. The fact that people do deny something doesn't make it true. Like for example do you know that America is guilty of having concentration camps for Japanese Americans? They did and the conditions were as bad. At least the Nazis kept a record of how many they killed.
2007-03-22 11:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by david_pugsley 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is sad to see that the defining tansgression of 20th century politics is set aside by people, and, even, world leaders. 62 million people perished as a result of WWII. It simply cannot happen again.
2007-03-22 10:59:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, now you understand how brainwashed the majority of the middle east is. I mean seriously! We all know it happened, but this Ahmadinejad nutcase is convincing people different! But yet we should continue to treat this guy as a civil, upstanding leader that simply wants to enrich uranium for....for....??
2007-03-22 11:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by panthrchic 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
plenty of people think the moon landing was filmed in a Hollywood studio... people just want to make up stories and be difficult I guess.
2007-03-22 11:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by pip 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought they would wait at least until all survivors were dead before trying to rewrite history.
2007-03-22 11:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Many people believe that the government is using propaganda! I don't but many people do!
2007-03-22 10:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
because they are crazy.
2007-03-22 12:23:58 · answer #10 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋