2007-11-07 23:55:54 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No, there are deniers of everything. Some people think the moon landing was done in a studio.
Some people are really f'cking stupid.
2007-11-07 23:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are categories of holocaust deniers. i've got had the "excitement" of assembly some and that they don't all have the comparable practice of concept. One form are people who believe the holocaust in no way befell and are thoroughly ignorant. they suspect that the holocaust substitute right into a brilliant conceal-up and such. Of what, I have no concept. the 2d form are slightly greater rational than the 1st and declare that confident the holocaust befell however the numbers of Jews that died are exaggerated. they suspect that the Jewish inhabitants mixed the style of non-Jewish lifeless with the quantity of Jews that died and claimed that the only ones killed have been Jews for mass sympathy. They in my view experience that it rather is insulting to declare the holocaust in basic terms befell to a majority of Jews whilst others have been persecuted and finished to boot.
2016-09-28 14:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by mataya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
There was documentation (at least a full railroad boxcar full) of it--and THAT was compiled by the Nazis themselves.
Besides, how could a hoax of such proportions be carried out? Anyone who's ever tried to keep a secret knows that it will inevitably leak as more people are let in on it, and face it, thousands of people must have known about what was going on--both those who were perpetrating it and certainly those who survived it. I'm sure, too, that there were people who lived near the concentration camps who must've at least had suspicions of what was happening, even if they kept them to themselves (given the times, probably the prudent thing to do from the standpoint of survival--I sometimes think that most of us tend to be that way, though we might like to think we'd have had the courage to speak up. If I seem to be pointing a finger, remember that four of them are pointing right back at at me!).
Well, I suppose there were people who thought Columbus faked his voyage when he returned to Spain, too.
2007-11-08 02:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are in fact a very small number of people who do not believe that the Holocaust occurred, but they are very vocal about their viewpoints. I do not count people who debate and discuss the exact numbers of deaths and proportions of populations killed as Holocaust deniers as long as they accept the basic event. We have an incredible range of sources to establish the occurrence of the Holocaust.
2007-11-08 02:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabethe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not particularly. I base this opinion off of the fact that children today grow up into a much more understanding ( don't think its the right word), there is still racism and people are still racist but people don't go to that extreme so people born after it don't believe it could have happened. But people that were alive during it also have sort of the same thoughts... that something that extreme must not have happened...that was such a evil occurrence that people try to forget it happened or talk themselves into believing something of that magnitude couldn't have happened.
2007-11-08 00:05:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. I see it as a combination of cowardice in the teaching of history in grades 5-12 (we teach history up to 1865 here in the US--after that, you're on your own til college) and the access to mass media that the deniers and their associates have.
2007-11-08 02:13:10 · answer #6 · answered by psyop6 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, I recently joined that crowd -- and I'm a WWII historian. I never really looked into the figures in the past. I merely took as good coin what had been reported over the years. The reality though is that while large numbers of Jews were certainly executed, the Holocaust numbers are simply not realistic. While many people clearly have an agenda to promote one way or the other, my only pursuit is for the truth. There are some good articles floating around on the Internet for anyone who might be interested further in exploring this topic.
2007-11-08 00:01:43 · answer #7 · answered by Nighthawke 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Not really, since they weren't there. Not everyone believes everything they read or see on TV, and some have a genuine distrust of written history because of hwo biased an incorrect so much of it is.
I'm not one of these people, but they are out there.
2007-11-07 23:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The level of stupidity that some humans are capable of sinking to ceased to shock me years ago. Now I just have to laugh at them, because the alternative isn't as nice.
2007-11-08 00:01:16 · answer #9 · answered by brattiness73 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The people who don't believe must have never owned a TV
2007-11-08 00:00:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋