Why is Holocaust denial important?

Question

... Why would I include it in a project? I'm struggling on how to answer that one, it's just important because it is. But somehow, I don't think my History teacher will like that!

Answer 1

Those who deny the Holocaust are haters, racists, anti-Semites, crazy, or mentally impared. They are in many cases extremely dangerous, spewing lies and hatred. The world is filled with them. The top selling book now in the west Bank, next to Israel, is Hitler's Mein Kampf.

We will have more holocausts if the knowledge is buried. It is important to know about the haters, what they think and do, so we can always remember need for educating the public about the truth taken out of political context, and simply left as what actually was and happened. Conclusions are taken from a humanitarian viewpoint, and help better the world. Politics entering these decisions destroys any good man can come up with.


Even the formation of Israel, done through politics, without truly understanding the views of Arabs and Muslems, has resulted in present day suicide bombers, aggression to wipe out all Jews world-wide, lack of truth, build up of military means to destroy civilization, particularly the Jews once again..

Answer 2

There can not be denial of the Holocaust . Records of the Nazis show more than crystal-clearly what happened. The fact and only, that Jews were branded like cattle, is a small token of the credibility of their records.
However, the over exploitation of the Holocaust by authors and the movie industry it's another story. That is something we can do without.
In an effort to justify what Israelis do to other nationalities, the use Holocaust as an alibi or excuse.
That has to stop, because it is becoming the fertilized ground to have the seeds for the next Holocaust.
We should not forget, but we should not condone similar attitudes however covert are the ways.
Furthermore, Holocausts were then, and are now happening, not only to Jews but many other nationalities. But for that we use the word Genocide. BEWARE, anyone can be next .
It only takes a fanatic lunatic.

Answer 3

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 4

The importance of Holocaust denial is simply the fact that without acknowledging the past, you risk repeating it's crimes. If enough people deny the holocaust for long enough, eventually most people will think that it never happened. Without the memories of the horrors involved, it is much easier to get people to do it again. The other aspect is that if you don't believe in the holocaust, and you already hate Jews, then you'll blame the Jews for this "false hysteria" regarding the holocaust. It just adds to the cycle of hate.

Answer 5

Hello,

The proof is overwhelming and the Nazis, brilliant as they were technically, didn't seem to have developed the paper shredder. So many records were left maticulously documenting things to the last gold crown and glasses.
Numeous complaints from one authority to another whining about how innefficient the firing squads and gas chambers were, not to mention the ovens in processing the victims in great numbers. In short they gave away and convicted themselves in this matter.

That being said, some consider this denial as a form of of mental gymnastics which certainly gets attention; perhaps they feel negative attention is better than no attention at all.
It is very much like those of the flat earth society, others who say ancient lizard kings and their Illuminati descendents rule the world; giant pyramids in the Bermuda Triangle etc.


Regards,

Michael Kelly

Answer 6

The denial of the Holocaust are more than just an important footnote. The existence of denial relates to the history of the anti-Semitic movements and racial tensions. To deny the Shoa is to deny history itself. The groups that deny it are attempting to re-write history in their own image, to make the death of over 8 million Jews, gypsies black, homosexuals, and political dissidents not happen is to attempt to show themselves as the victims.

It is ultimately important as a symbol of the most egregious thing ever done to mankind, by his own kind. It is still the largest single project of mass murder in documented world history. Take the World Trade Center's toll of 6000 (both immediate and peripheral deaths) and multiply it by 1300 times and while 911 is still fresh, it pales in comparison.

So we must understand and see the importance of the denials, even if we know them to be wrong. We remember both, in order to keep history accurate and alive.

Answer 7

All it is is a way for the Neo Nazis, Klansmen (and women), religious extremists (Christian, Islamic, etc), and other nuts to justify why they like to kiss Hitler's rear end and call it ice cream. It's because they want to do to this world what Hitler could not, and think that denying the Holocaust took place will make them more palatable to more moderate people. But thankfully the vast majority of people see through all their lies and their Holocaust denial.

Answer 8

You might start with the famous words of philosopher George Santayana "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

The President of Iran simultaneously denies the Holocaust and calls for the destruction of Israel. As Israel's creation was driven by the world's horror and guilt over the Holocaust, denying it ever happened allows for further guilt-free persecution of the Jews.

This same sort of rewriting history goes on around the world. Japan's children learn that Japan was a victim in World War II. The nation's leaders still deny their genocide in China, the great numbers of Korean woman and others forced into sex slavery, and their horrible abuse of prisoners of war. Chinese children don't learn about the millions who starved under Mao. In the US, few know that one reason for killing hundreds of thousands of people with nuclear weapons was to impress the Soviet Union. And in the Soviet Union, great swaths of history were swept under the rug for generations to avoid tarnishing the glory of the revolution.

And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut would say. The importance is that only by revealing the truth, and by making sure the world learns from its mistakes, can we ever hope to be a better people and live with greater peace, justice and prosperity for all.

Answer 9

I wouldn't include it decause Holocaust denial is not only a specious argument,it's an insult and an i njustice to the millions of people who died in the concentrtion camps.Can any rught-thinking person actually believe that there wasn't a campaign to exterminate "undesirables"?My uncle Leo was one of the first to liberate Bergen=Belson,one of the most notoriuos of the killing fields and i tend to take his word for the fact that it was all too real

Answer 10

Because the peolpe who denies the Holocaust, effdectively condonne the crimes commited by the Nazis in Europe and so they are the instrument in that criminal ideology's "reabilitation"