Something lately has really been disturbing me. There are, apparently, many individuals who deny the holocaust and the mass extermination of Jews during WW2. These individuals claim it never happened and that it's all a lie, despite the numerous eye witnesses, countless documentations, and undeniable evidence that proves otherwise.
HOW can people deny this? What are they basing this stuff off of?
2007-05-23 04:58:00 · 17 answers · asked by Mr_Masks99 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
People still deny man landed on the moon.
There are still people who think the earth is flat.
People think the US government blew up the WTC.
They think there are super secret groups like the Illuminati who control the world.
There is no telling why people believe some things they believe, or don't believe other things.
We just have to shake out heads on ignore them.
2007-05-23 05:13:58 · answer #1 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at who is doing the denying. There are people who believe the Nazis were justified in their actions. Why do you suppose that is? Why are the Israelis and the Palestinians and the Islamists still at war after all these years? Why are the Israelis still hated so much? When you can answer these questions, you might gain some insight into the question. The Nazis still believe they were doing as ordered -- just like the U.S. soldiers today who take their captives and water board them and do other kinds of tortures. In war most believe their actions are justified. The Holocaust happened then and can happen again today because people will not do anything until the problem is placed squarely in their homes. Those who don't remember the past are destined to repeat it. Those who don't act will always be forced to react to situations that could have been prevented had they paid attention and been diligent.
2007-05-23 12:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by Mindbender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How they're denying it is easy: words, written and spoken. Basis? None really, other than other people also denying it.
Proof of non-occurance of anything cannot be proven. One cannot prove that God or anything else does not exist somewhere in the universe. Atlantis cannot be proven or disproven to exist, but Troy and the Trojan War were eventually proven to have occurred and it shocked much of the world.
The Holocaust on the other hand is well documented in witnesses, pictures, documents and incarceration camps still in existence today. (But some people deny the moon landing as well and that was seen on international TV.)
Why they deny it is the better question. They deny it mostly to further justify their hatred for the Jewish people. No good reason there either, but that's how radicals are.
2007-05-23 12:16:03 · answer #3 · answered by John T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know either. I have always believed in letting people spout whatever it is that they believe in, but, this argument is a bit much....the Holocaust ended so many lives, so many families...i just don't understand why anyone would WANT to overlook it or deny the torture of an entire race.
Try that crap with slavery, and I bet there would be a law passed, acknowledging the events that took place.
We should learn from the past, not try to cover it up.
Individuals are not mad with power....groups of people are....get enough hating people together, and there's no telling what kind of pillaging and plundering they can do.
2007-05-23 12:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by melissa 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Denying a tragic event especially when that event happened to a single race is another form of racism. It isn't that people don't know or believe, its that they want to continue hurting those associated with the group such as Ahmadinejad in Iran. Denial can be either straightforwardly saying it never happened or more commonly making assertions about the numbers of those that lost life. For example, "It wasn't 6 million it was only 2 million."
This is also true of the Turkish-Armenian conflict and the enslavement of blacks in the Americas.
2007-05-23 12:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by David M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they believe it ties into the Zionist Conspiracy. Basically they believe that a handful of Jews rule the world and they are the reaon for all corruption in society and that they invented the Holocaust to justify the existence of Israel and the merciless killing of their enemies (arabs mostly).
It's just a different view point. I think its wrong for those that deny the Holocaust to be imprisoned (as they are in many european countries). If you don't believe in the Holocaust why shouldn't you be able to express that. I wasn't there, and I'm fairly certain you were not there either, so therefore neither of us can say for sure if the Holocaust happend. I personally believe that it did, but i'm never closed off to people who question accepted truths. (such as "america never landed on the moon", i don't believe it, but i'll listen to what they have to say)
New ideas can't hurt you!
2007-05-23 12:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People can rationalize anything. When something is beyond reason and explanation they just deny it ever happened. The old Germans who were involved or just lived there when it happened have difficulty explaining to their grandchildren, so they deny. The same thing is happening in Japan. Look at their history books and their denial of the "comfort women" they enslaved to service their army.
2007-05-23 12:08:00 · answer #7 · answered by lestermount 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand it either. Personally, I'd like to walk them thru the Holocaust Museum or one of the former camps in Germany / Poland.
My grandparents (maternal) escaped Germany in 1935...
2007-05-23 12:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People will believe any lie if it's big enough (and by lie I mean the lie that the Holocaust never happened).
2007-05-23 12:08:00 · answer #9 · answered by Waiting and Wishing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many people who choose not to believe in such things... either because it is just too horrific to think that human beings can treat each other this way or because they are closed minded and ignorant... usually it helps them to maintain whatever racial prejudices they may have to choose to believe that such a thing is lies.
there needs to be no BASIS for it... they just believe as they choose to believe... whatever suits them. Its sad really but unfortunately thats what some people have become
2007-05-23 12:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by Kimberlie H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋