Why do people deny the Holocaust ?

Question

I mean its clearly obvious it happened. Look at all the video and picture evidence for example

Answer 1

Thank you for asking this question. I for one will not even read the replies just in case one of them tries to convince us that it never happened. Then that get's me into "I want to strangle the idiot," mode. But I'm just too chilled at the moment and don't want to get angry.

My Mum is still trying find details of what happened to her grandparents. Opening of the archives has added new possibilities, but access is restricted to specialists and news media at the moment.

AND FOR THOSE WHO QUESTION THE NUMBERS, THE GERMAN GOVT., DOES NOT. THEY HAVE OPENED THE OFFICIAL NAZI ARCHIVES, 6 MILLION FILES EXIST. THE NAZIS KEPT ACCURATE RECORDS. SO FOR THOSE WHO DENY THE NUMBERS, GET UP TO DATE WITH WHAT IS EXACTLY HAPPENING IN THE WORLD.

Remember the recent court case in Austria, an English historian on trial for being a denyalist. He admitted in open court, as a professor of history, and now having access to the latest information, he was wrong, and 6 million is the correct figure.

Guess those who deny are just jew haters and even hard evidence will still leave them denying and hating.

Answer 2

Part of the "problem" is that many people have trouble accepting the fact that someting so horrendous happened in a modern world that is supposed to be so civilsed. If you have never met anyone who lived through the holocaust, if you have never talked to someone who was there - then the pictures, footage, and numbers are all abstracts that are difficult to put into context.

My Opa "survived" being captured and tortured by the Gestapo for helpng the resistance so I always had a pretty strong animosity to the German people - which became a bit of an issue when we had a German person on a work visit at work. The topic came up one day and she said that her parents don't talk about WW2 - that it is like they don't want to face the fact that they lived in that time. They were in the Hitler Youth generation so they were being raised in Germany at the height of the holocaust. So denial is sort of understandable in that case - who wants to face the fact that they were part of a culture that ended the lives of million of people?

One other point too is that it was not just the Jews who died during the Holocaust. It was a huge clensing - with lots of different people being sent to the gas chambers. Mentally and physically disabled people were murdered, the so called Gypsies and other ethnic minorities were also murdered during the Holocaust. Most people also don't realise that homosexuals had to wear pink triangles in public (like the Jewish star) and they were also sent to the gas chambers.

For me it is hard to deny that the Holocaust happened because my family was affected - and because I have looked at the Holocaust as part of my university level studies. Holocaust denial is a complex issue, and there is no one simple explanation of why people deny that it happened.

Answer 3

Here are the basic reasons:

1. They are ignorant of history.
2. They are "anti-Semitic" (dislike Jews).
and the BIG ONE,
3. They hate Israel.

The last one is the "big one" because The Holocaust is the major reason why the United Nations elected to establish a "Jewish State" in Palestine in 1948. So if The Holocaust is a fraud, then Israel is a fraud and has no "right" to exist.

Answer 4

The figure of six million is probably underestimated.Although the Nazi killing machine was absolutely thorough in recording every detail regarding the murders where possible , actions in the "field" and atrocities committed by its allies were never subject to such detail.Why deny ?
Because they are sad,emotionally stunted bigoted people who relish the idea of being part of a group who are feared.
The ironic thing is that if they were part of Hitlers Germany as a group of "unstable dissidents" they would be one of the first to go to the camps.
Doubt it ? What happened to Rohms Brownshirts ?

Answer 5

Jews have been hated for centuries. They have been vilified by christians who call them "Christ Killers" Also Father Abraham had a wife who bore him a son called Issac and he also had a concubine who bore him a son salled Ishmael. Issac went on to be a founder of the Jews and Ishmael the Arabs who later became Muslims...So now, not only do Christians hate them, so do Muslims.

Every civilization took their anger and repressions out on the Jews. Shakespeare vilified Jews in the Merchant of Venice using the Jew Shylock as an evil money lender.

In order to make Jews "pretenders" hateful people want to take away the awful things the Jews contended with over the centuries like that little pipsqueak who is the president of Iran who denys the Holocaust.

Lots of history and hatred at play here. A space this small can not begin to explain why there are so many "Jew Haters" out there.


For morph 88..A lot of the camps were in Germany

Answer 6

There are several good answers. However, you will only find the truth when you explore the nature of the capitalist society. It's not hard to grasp; first there's work, then the work is done, then there is unemployment, recessions, less work, deeper recessions, right wing politics flourish, war, peace, then there's plenty of work all over again. The media do an extremely good job of ensuring that hardly anybody ever works this out. Some people do though.

Answer 7

Maybe some people brought the stuff that the Nazi plundered of the Jews, so they put across this ludicrous idea it was faked - and looked really hard and found statements to back this idea 'They said this in the 1st world war too...'

They would want to believe it themselves so they didn't feel guilty and for others to believe it so they could sell stuff.

Edit Germans don't necessarily = Nazis I believe Ann Frank was part German on her dad's side.

Answer 8

There is a lot of ignorance out there. Maybe they feel more comfortable believing that it never happened rather than think about what happened to an entire race of people.

Answer 9

I don't even know, that is the one thing in history that people should not deny because of all the evidence that is out there. People are idiots.

Answer 10

Because some people simply don't want to believe that things that happened really happened and at the hands of other human beings.