Holocaust Denial (Auschwitz)?

Question

Why did people not do anything about Auschwitz specifically? Why did people not try and help jews and others. (not just individuals) Why were people deniaing the holocaust?

Links of web sites are most appreciated.

Answer 1

Here's reliable info from some history books and sites to clear up some of the Q's on what we did or didn't do and what we knew. first IMO WWII was basically a huge screw up for humanity, everyone could have done a little bit more to stop it although the germans were entirely at fault it's still important to see the big picture at the time we were not in a rush for another war and there was a large amount of anti- semitism public opinion over entering another war especially when we weren't the ones under attack would have raised a mass of criticism and neg op. "And the world stood still." the holocaust is impt to remember not as an attack on the Jews which it wasn't just the jews but many others as well, it was a tragedy for the entire human race because it could have and should have been prevented which is why the holocaust is important to remember and learn from.

-- england and france could have done a lot more to stop hitlers rise to power but were focusing on recovering from the first world war and many people couldn't even contemplate a 2nd, (p360, Davis).

--1935 Hitler publicly has pledged to rearm Germany He launched a "massive program of militarization" Mussolini also began invading Ethiopia at the time. The U.S. passed "the neutrality act" which would not allow us to sell any weapons or ammo to anyone involved this prevented us from helping the allies at the beginning of the war. Roosevelt was pressured by public opinion to remain completely neutral. "facing strong isolationist sentiment led by Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and a widely listened to anti semitic radio priest , father Charles coughlin, Roosevelt had to swallow the unpleasant bill"(p.361, 2. Davis).

-july 24 1944 soviets released the first camp. making it the first solid piece of proof that was found although stories had been around the west.

This is an excerpt from a famous speech given by Nobel peace prize winner, author of night and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel called "the perils of indifference".
READ THIS SPEECH
"Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again.
Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know -- that they, too, would remember, and bear witness...What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil...Of course, indifference can be tempting -- more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair. Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest. Indifference reduces the other to an abstraction...And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war against the Jews that Hitler's armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the Allies.If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene. They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once.
And now we knew, we learned, we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew. And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader -- and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.
No doubt, he was a great leader. He mobilized the American people and the world, going into battle, bringing hundreds and thousands of valiant and brave soldiers in America to fight fascism, to fight dictatorship, to fight Hitler. And so many of the young people fell in battle. And, nevertheless, his image in Jewish history -- I must say it -- his image in Jewish history is flawed.
The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point. Sixty years ago, its human cargo -- maybe 1,000 Jews -- was turned back to Nazi Germany. And that happened after the Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps. And that ship, which was already on the shores of the United States, was sent back.
I don't understand. Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart. He understood those who needed help. Why didn't he allow these refugees to disembark? A thousand people -- in America, a great country, the greatest democracy, the most generous of all new nations in modern history. What happened? I don't understand. Why the indifference, on the highest level, to the suffering of the victims?
But then, there were human beings who were sensitive to our tragedy. Those non-Jews, those Christians, that we called the "Righteous Gentiles," whose selfless acts of heroism saved the honor of their faith. Why were they so few? Why was there a greater effort to save SS murderers after the war than to save their victims during the war?
Why did some of America's largest corporations continue to do business with Hitler's Germany until 1942? It has been suggested, and it was documented, that the Wehrmacht could not have conducted its invasion of France without oil obtained from American sources. How is one to explain their indifference?..."

Answer 2

There are many websites to give you information about the holocaust just search google or yahoo and you will get heaps of entries.

About your question. The answer is slightly complicated because you are actually asking about two different times. No one really helped the Jews that much because countries were not open to mass migrations like they had been earlier. The US was not really accepting all that many immigrants and neither were the various countries of W. Europe. Beyond that people did not believe they needed to do anything except escape Germany so people did not look to go all that far away. As to why no one did anything about Auschwitz well that is pretty easy - no one knew anything about the death camps until they were liberated. Those who did know (the Nazis) certainly weren't talking about it. As to denials about its existence those are primarily taking place today. I doubt anyone except a Neo-Nazi or someone who is completely ignorant
would actually deny its existence and what went on there as there is way too much evidence that it did indeed take place.

Answer 3

Ok...first off, not everyone denied that the Holocaust happened. Holocaust denial gained in popularity among Nazi supporters during and after the Nuremburg Trials.

There was an underground that existed during WWII that many people used to help Jews in the concentration camps (not just Auschwitz). Here are a couple of links for you to check out.

Answer 4

I'm not aware of anyone who denies the Holocaust.

I took German in high school. We studied the language, culture and some history. My teacher said that many Germans at the time didn't know what was going on in their own back yards. All they knew was that their neighbors were there one day and not there the next. They didn't know where their neighbors were going, who (if anyone) took them.

Most concentration camps were in the middle of the forest, surrounded by multiple fences, guard stations... I'm guessing that to even get into the forrest near Auschwitz, there would have been multiple guard stations/check points that would have had to be passed.... Hitler may have been the ultimate personification of evil, but he wasn't a stupid man.

Answer 5

The Jews did not suffer in Germany because there was no Holocaust. Actually it was the Jews that was torturing the poor blond haired deprived Germans. Those tattoos on the Jews arms and hands that are still alive today (by the grace of God) are really there because they want to be hip.


OTHER CONSPIRACIES TO THINK ABOUT:

1. We knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor before they did. I mean come-on President Roosevelt liked the thought of our boys baking inside the Battle Ship Arizona before they died. The President was looking for a better way to get a good nights sleep.

2. America did not land on the Moon. We payed billions of dollars for the 360 foot Saturn 5 rocket so we could look at it and say wow that is a big rocket. We kept approx. 400,000 technicians, scientists and construction contractors quiet, with zero leaks to the public. The rocks that we thought that came from moon and have proved to be from the moon are really from the Pacific Ocean.

3. The Mafia whacked JFK, via the Russian connection, via the Cuban connection.... The man on the grassy knoll was a CIA agent acting on orders from Giancana from Chicago and Marcello from New Orleans, with duplicity from Castro and Kruschev....true story.

4. Aliens landed in Roswell and we transported them to Area 51 to back engineer their technology, where do you think the stealth air craft came from? Again, we kept it secret by brain washing the thousands of workers who were in on the scam.

5. The Moon we see every night is really not there along with the planets, stars as well as the Planet Killing Asteroids. Those were put there by the evil United States to toy with our minds.

6. The fossils of homo eructus, neandertals and 15 other hominids that are extinct were put there by paleotologists, archeologists, and assorted rock hounds to enhance their careers. Creationism is the only reality.

7. America is a conspiracy and is a fake country and none of us Americans really live here.

8. I was never born so this response to your question is a fake.

Answer 6

Hitler obviously used the jews as scapegoat to get the rest of Germany behind him. He blamed them for their debt because they controlled most of the money, when in reality they were in debt because of the WW1 guilt cause. Auschuitz was like anyother camp, no one cared so why would anyone do anything? Hitler used propaganda to persuade people that the jews were to blame for everything so people didnt see it as genocide. Naturally people conform so even if some disagreed they would most likely stick to what other said or believed. Not all Germans are Nazis and most of them probably didnt know exactly was going on.

Answer 7

These camps were not public spectacles. The general population was not allowed to simply stroll by and see what was happening there. For the most part the German people really didn't know what was going on. By the time rumors started about these camps the Nazis were terrorizing the entire population. If anyone tried to do something they simply disappeared, or were shot.

Answer 8

ANY BONEHEAD THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE THE HOLOCAUST EVER TOOK PLACE SHOULD GO TO GERMANY AND VISIT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
56-58 AM GROSSEN WANSSEE / BERLIN

There Germans have kept as a Memorial and Museum, the Villa where the "Final Solution" was decided called the Wanssee Conference.

Germany admits the holocaust took place.

Answer 9

probably because there wasnt anything in it for them
sad

some companies made money off it! cocacola (which used a different name which was marketed to the nazis), ibm which made the punch card machines for keeping track of the jews

Answer 10

These are two exelent web sites (the second one has videos):



http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/


http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://mx.geocities.com/yahwehnatan/&prev=/language_tools



I hope that they serve to you.