People who don't believe in the holocaust, do you think that's bad for the future?

Question

There are actually people who deny the holocaust from ever happening, and there are survivors today, so imagine in a hundred years from now what people will say. Do you think this is bad for the future, because there are leaders that believe it didn't happen so they will make their generation have the same insane thoughts?

FTI: In Germany some guy denied the holocaust from happening and they put him in jail for a few years and they finned him over $27,000. Personally I think that's a good thig to do because I think the holocast and WW2 era is very important. But then again it is a harsh punishment.

I agree, I have heard religious people say this could never have happened because the jews are the chosen race. So they deny it because of their religious beliefs, and you an I both know that religion is a very powerful force in society, it can make you believe anything!

Answer 1

If we are unable or unwilling to learn the lessons that history has to teach us, we are destined to make the same mistakes over and over again. Definetly not good!!

Answer 2

I work with a woman that makes the statement "You people are all so sure that the Holocaust really happened" quite often. It makes me furious to hear such nonsense from her mouth. She is a college graduate with a masters degree in business and she is saying this! It is appaling and pure ignorance. I think that more about the Holocaust should be taught in shcools to prevent this from becoming an event in history that is questioned to the point that people actually start believing that it is a made up story.

Some websites about the Holocaust awareness:

http://www.dac.neu.edu/holocaust/
http://members.aol.com/dhs11/remember.html
http://www.du.edu/cjs/holocaust_awareness_institute.html
http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/index.shtml

Answer 3

What I cannot understand is how anyone can see the pictures and film footage of the Holocaust and still deny it ever happening. There was no technology to alter picture images or films. How do they explain the concentration camps, the logs of the people that were kept at the camps and the experiments that were conducted and how they were exterminated. I really feel people who will not believe something as horrific as a mass genocide will probably believe there is nothing going on like this in this day in country's such as Dafur, Sudan. This is like denying slavery never existed either. What this means for them is that they can become victims of something like this happening to them.

As for the uneducated answer about gluing God and science together? What the hell does that have to do with anything? People who are religious believe this happened. It was a religious group of people, namely Jews, who were killed by another religious based group of people who were Catholics. Hitler was Catholic. People like you are just like the people who do not believe in the Holocaust. What we need to be ever so watchful of is the religious persecution of one religious group of individuals upon another group of religious individuals. Such as going on now with the radical Muslims hatred and jihad upon others who do not believe or embrace their belief.

As to passing this belief on to their generation or those after them? Look at Mel Gibson. He believes the Holocaust happened though his father totally denies it happened. You can find a child reared in a racist home, and when grown will be totally the opposite. Or atheist parents whose children who will grow up and have religious beliefs. It is all in what a person chooses to believe in. Who can explain what makes a person believe in what he/she believes in or why people decide to be law abiding, and others criminals.

Answer 4

It's a nightmare to deny one of the worst human atrocities of the twentieth century. Much of the denial is coming from the Middle East. Shame on all forms of religious propaganda. The President of Iran is not interested in peace.

Answer 5

there is not any evidence of it not happening yet there's a lot of evidence that it did. They declare that that could be a Zionist conspiracy that controls the media and governments of the Western international First they got here for the communists, and that i did not communicate out—by using fact i became into not a communist; Then they got here for the commerce unionists, and that i did not communicate out—by using fact i became into not a commerce unionist; Then they got here for the Jews, and that i did not communicate out—by using fact i became into not a Jew; Then they got here for me—and there became into no person left to speak out for me.

Answer 6

I doubt it, there's a high percentage of people who believe the holocaust happened and there are too many books and witnesses to prove that the holocaust happened.

Answer 7

It is terrible and very frightening. Hitler wasn't afraid to exterminate millions..He once sited the fact that the world forgot the 1.5 million Armenians that were slaughtered
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana, 1863-1952.

Answer 8

well i be leave in the Holocaust my grandmother worked in the army filling up gas pumps any ways back to your question yes it would be bad it is such a big chunk of or history and one of my favourite things to learn about

Answer 9

I think it's very bad for the future. Learning about history helps it from repeating itself because we than learn from past mistakes others have made.

Answer 10

they deny it because they are ignorant or perhaps really afraid of what humans are capable of. i don't think its either good or bad for the future. history has taught us nothing ... well, it has taught us little. had we learned from out history many things would not be happening as we speak.