What evidence exists to show that the Holocaust happened?

Question

I have an open mind on this. I want to read answers other than "Of course it happened".

Answer 1

If you are actually serious, and not asking the questions to infuraite people or make a fool of yourself, or as some who deny it , are delusional , who argue that the US astronauts neverwent to the moon, and the moon landing was simply a scenes shot in a Hollywood studios. o rhat 9/11 was a plot by the US Government.. If you are from out of space and wish seriously to learn that there was a World War Two where Americnas did actually participate and li berated conce ntration camps with still corpses by the thousands lying around I invie you to join the Yahoo! group Remember_The_Holocaust. Otherwise, please stay as you wish,, That is if you wish to continue not knowing and pretending you k know , thatis your choice.. others who listen to you would know if you know or winking it. God bless! Unfortunately , i lost the parents who reared me in the Holocaust and i wouil have also beemn exterminated at Sobibor exterminationation camp with an estimated thousands of others. Yes my picture a is there in the Yahoo! group with my late parents..

Answer 2

I know you're not actually denying the Holocaust, but you open up a whole can of worms just by mentioning it. What you are really doing is questioning the authenticity of all of our history.

As far as the Holocaust goes, we have physical evidence and oral and written testimony.

Of course a conspiracy theorist would argue that these could all have been faked, but these three factors are the basis for all of our history, so if the Holocaust evidence is a conspiracy, surely all human history is a conspiracy.
Can we truly believe, for example, that the battle of Hastings took place in 1066, that Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the Americas in 1492 or that man landed on the moon in 1969? If we can't accept physical evidence and oral/written testimony, then these historical 'facts' become meaningless.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that once you accept just one, you wind up not being able to believe anything.

(The flat earth analogy that some people are using is innacurate - we can scientifically test the flat earth hypothesis in the present moment: we can't scientifically test eyewitness accounts of events that have already happened.)

Answer 3

Maybe you should look at what the liberators of the camps have to say on the subject. There will be many books in your local library for your research.

"The things I saw beggar description... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were...overpowering... I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'."
Source: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's letter to General George C. Marshall dated April 15, 1945.

You should also read the testimony from the Nuremberg Trials 1945 - 1949.
"No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. What is shocking about Nuremberg is the ordinariness of the defendants: men who may be good fathers, kind to animals, even unassuming--yet committed unspeakable crimes."

In conclusion, I don't understand how you can doubt such overwhelming evidence that is everywhere. There is nothing to have an open mind about: IT IS FACT!!

Answer 4

Well for one thing, at least one of the extermination camps has been preserved as a museum. Also you have survivors accounts. Plus there is a huge archive of evidence and photographs that the Allies accumulated to document the camps when they first encountered them. Also there were many people thrown in jail or executed for their roles in the holocaust. Some of these confessed, others protested that they were just guards and were not in a position to do anything about it. But very few of them could deny that it happened at all.

Answer 5

If you ask me, the Holocaust was one of the worst crimes in history, and the way you put it 'open mind' is very offensive. Many, many Jews died. Some people say it was just a stupid Jew plot, and of course it didn't happen! I, however disagree. Forgive me for saying this, for this is equally rude, but the Jews, what, they just decided to play hide and go seek or something? 6 million, huh? Yeah, sure.

But besides that, we have some hard core evidence. What about the string of numbers on a survivor's wrist? What about how we never found Adolf Hitler? What about all those liberated concentration camps? Those pictures, images that we have...I find it SICK absolutely SICK that someone could ever doubt that this happened, and yes, I'm going to say one last thing to you.
'OF COURSE IT HAPPENED!'

Answer 6

You have an open mind on this? What the freak does that mean? Do you have an open mind about the earth being flat? About the existence of gravity? Seriously, are you kidding me? How about: eyewitness accounts? The Nuremburg trials? The involvement of the United States in the war? All the people who have numbered tatooos on their arms? Hitler's documented (often filmed) speeches? The existence of the concentration camps? Give me a break!

Answer 7

Soon you'll have even more evidence than ever before and this will come from the records the Nazis themselves.

Nazi Records Opened.
The German government has finally agreed to let the outside world look at millions of historic documents – the erstwhile Nazi regime’s mutant records of depravity and murder.

The German government announced that it is dropping its decades-long resistance to opening the archives in the town of Bad Arolsen.

The files stretch for more than 15 miles, hold up to 50 million documents and make up one of the largest Holocaust archives in the world.

“We now agree to open the data in Bad Arolsen,” the German Justice Minister, Brigitte Zypries, said at a news conference here. She said Germany would seek revision of an 11-nation arrangement that governs the archives.
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The Nazis kept very precise records on everything and everyone.
It will take years to sift through it all, I would imagine.
Surely, no one is going to dispute what the Nazis kept in their own official records.

Answer 8

There are the actual sites of course, and the surviivors. If you happen to know or meet an old individual with numbers tatooed on his/her arm, then he/she is probably a holocaust survivor. But even old veterans that fought in Europe could probably testify to the veracity of the holocaust.

Answer 9

How about you ask someone who has lived through it. How about the gas chambers in the camps, how about WWII and Hitler, the Diary of Ann Frank, go to the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C., matter of fact visit Germany or Poland and ask them, why do you think the state of Israel was established after World War II? Next thing you know you'll be asking if Rwanda ever happened or the Rape of Nanking, or the genocide in Darfur/Sudan... don't be ignorant, get educated.

Answer 10

First hand Witness testimonials from victims of the holocaust.
Documented pictures taken during the time of the holocaust and from the aftermath when American forces invaded Germany.
Written documents from the Nazi's pertaning to the Holocaust.
Historical landmarks "Concentration Camp" sites.
etc...etc....etc......