Do you think the Holocaust was the hoax of the 20th century?

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there are things that people wonder about the holcaust. Examples:

1. The U.S.A sent in some sort of specialist having to do with gas weapons, to auschwitz concentration camp. they took samples of the gas chamber walls, because there should be some sort of residue on the walls, he found NONE! Many people think that this was the way 6 million jews were exterminated(2-3 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc.) i think its ridiculous to think 6 million jews died in gas chambers, its more reasonable to say 1 million or less died in gas chambers. most died of starvation. I do think the holocaust happened. but it makes me wonder, the diary of ann frank was written in ball-point pen, the ball point pen wasn't invented until after the holocaust. you start to wonder. So these theories have been popping out and other people that deny the holocaust have said it is a matter of publicity and it was planned out from the start.(ridiculous don't you think?)

Mike

Answer 1

No, but I think your high school diploma might be.

This is one of those stupid issues that keeps popping up around here. There is no debate about this. No hoax, no conspiracy.
This is a historical fact. The Nazis took very good records. They were thorough and efficient and had even made plans for a "Museum of the extinct people". Plus we have soldiers testimony, survivor testimony, guard testimony, mountains of records, plane surveillance photos, tons of records, articles from newspapers of that time. What more do you want, a time machine?


In response to your response, the USA DID NOT send a guy to Auschwitz. What you are referring to is the work of Fred Leuchter, who was hired by holocaust deniers to "prove" there were no gas chambers. He went there in 1988, forty+ years later and scraped some of the bricks and didn't find any arsenic. OF COURSE HE DIDN"T. If you leave a brick outside for forty+ years, of course the chemical crap will be gone. Errol Morris made a film about this in 1999 - it's called "Dr. Death", and you could also look him up on the internet. Here, try this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_A._Leuchter

As for Anne Frank's diary, ballpoint pens had been around since the 1930s. Pretty easy to look up. There may have been some edits to the diary by her dad, who survived and later retrieved the diary, and who censored some stuff dealing with sexuality, which would be the source of the "wrong pen" ink".

You've basically fallen into the trap the deniers like to set. They find one small little thing, often based on faulty logic or misinterpreted evidence, and try to convince you that if one little thing is false, the whole thing is false. Think critically, man.

Answer 2

No it wasn't. There can be no serious doubt that as a consequence of measures taken by the Nazis very large numbers of Jews and others died. There are a number of issues over which specialists may disagree. That millions died is clear, the exact number is difficult to determine. How many died due to mistreatment and how many were deliberately killed is similarly difficult to determine. When a programme of repression became one of extermination, how much various individuals (including Hitler) knew, who shares in the guilt, whether all Germans should be considered complicit, all of these are important questions about which serious and moral people may differ. As well, there is no doubt that other national groups have suffered extensive persecution and mass murder. Whether their cases are on par with European Jews during WW2 is again an issue on which debate may occur. But was the Holocaust a hoax? No.

Answer 3

No. The German concentration camps truly happened.

In his book: THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Butz, the author doesn't deny the holocaust happened but minimilizes it by descrediting the accepted sources.

All the holocaust deniers end up being holocaust minimilizers questioning the actual amount of people killed in such a short period of time, 1942-1944, or photographs of typhus dead being passed off as genocide victims, or pointing out the lack of photographic evidence of actual genocide taking place, or down-playing human experimentation, or pointing out that the gas chambers were actually 'de-lousing chambers' and the victims died in panic rather than being gassed on purpose, that the poison gas used was actually Cyclon B - a delousing agent used on German troops in WWI, and all other such dialectics.

But the holocaust deniers have no argument as there are written documentation for the extermination of the Jews.

As far as mass guilt, is all of Israel guilty for the murder of American sailors by Israeli military on board the USS LIBERTY in June 1967?

Answer 4

The Holocaust is an irrefutable fact. The evidence, of course, is overwhelming. The countless photographs (most of them taken by Nazi SS and military personnel), testimonies of survivors, and Allied liberators as well as from Nazi documentation media and their war-time propaganda films all prove that this mass Judeocide took place. Yet, there are a number of people that claim it was all nothing more than a hoax. These deniers call themselves "revisionist historians." Their express purpose is to alter documented historical fact. In the process, they turn scholarship into mockery, transforming truth into a make-believe fantasy spawned from unmitigated cynicism. They use the resulting misinformation to spread their anti-Jewish beliefs to the general public. Moreover, their theories, derived from blatant fabrication of data, misquotations, and quotations used out of context, are presented under the deceptive mask of scholarship and are made available to the world by way of the Internet, radio, and television. Although only relatively few fringe groups, propagandists, and pseudo-scholars embrace Holocaust denial, their activity is increasing and the potential for their influence to grow is evident. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all Holocaust survivors, historians, and those sincere chroniclers of the Holocaust to inform the world of the truth before the peoples around the world potentially fall prey, over time, to collective amnesia and adopt a romantic mythical view of the past events.
Denying the fact that the Holocaust occurred makes about as much sense as claiming that the earth is flat. It was the meticulous Nazis themselves who produced a large portion of the documents now available to anyone who desires to peruse them. They all point to the deniers' hypocrisy and make it plain that their claim to a "Holocaust hoax" is an unmitigated farce. Furthermore, contrary to the deniers' assertions, Hitler was fully aware of and did, in fact, order the annihilation of the European Jews. The facts of the Holocaust are so well documented in serious scholarly accounts that denial of Hitler's responsibility for the murder of the Jews is too preposterous to require refutation and argument.

Source(s):
1. http://www.yadvashem.org
2. http://www.ushmm.org

Answer 5

Of course not. Everyone know the Holocaust really happened - there are even Nazi archives which were recently opened to limited public access for the first time in sixty years which confirm the existance of concentration camps and the astounding number of people who were killed in those camps.
Both sides agree that this really happened - there are just a few nut cases out there insist on blaming the Jews for everything bad in the world, and try to make them look bad by insisting they "made up" the Holocaust to gain sympathy.

Answer 6

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 7

No. I've been to Dachau, I've seen the records the Nazis kept, I've seen the gas chambers, and I've seen the lampshades made from human skin. The Nazis killed millions, kept meticulous records, and their leaders didn't deny it after the war - even during the Nuremburg trials, the defense wasn't "it didn't happen", it was "I was only following orders."

Answer 8

That's just ridiculous. No. And just so you don't have to ask, planes really did fly into the World Trade Center, too.

Answer 9

you can get sued for saying that. It's a crime in many countries, including germany.

Answer 10

Are you wondering how many deluded people there are here who will answer yes?