Do people really think the Holocaust was a hoax?

Question

i am listening to michael savage, and a guy called in totally rationalizing why he thinks the holocaust never happened. i know Iran's president stirred up all kinds of crap, but do people from educated countries honestly think he has a point? How is that possible?

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpictures.htm

Answer 1

The Holocaust is an irrefutable fact. As a survivor of several labor and concentration camps, and as one whose entire family, save my elder brother, was murdered by Nazi thugs, I sincerely wish it had not occurred. It is also irrefutable that I am still here—a reminder of those barbaric acts perpetrated not so long ago on the European Jews by an ostensibly civilized German nation. Law-abiding, ordinary citizens of the Third Reich turned fanatical; implementing their beloved Führer’s agenda of murder and destruction. They became killers for him and we became the survivors of his madness. We were not expected to remain alive and give testimony to their crimes against humanity. Alas, it can not be denied that I survived this disaster; the most horrendous calamity of the twentieth century. I am here, alive. I represent the tragic truth. It is my belief that I was spared for this purpose. It is now my moral responsibility to bear witness for as long as I shall live, for I am the truth and will not be silenced by lies. To deny the truth, the awful facts of the Holocaust, is simply to lie.

Answer 2

The Holocaust is an irrefutable fact. The evidence, of course, is overwhelming. The countless photographs (most of them taken by Nazi SS and military personnel), testimonies of survivors, and Allied liberators as well as from Nazi documentation media and their war-time propaganda films all prove that this mass Judeocide took place. Yet, there are a number of people that claim it was all nothing more than a hoax. These deniers call themselves "revisionist historians." Their express purpose is to alter documented historical fact. In the process, they turn scholarship into mockery, transforming truth into a make-believe fantasy spawned from unmitigated cynicism. They use the resulting misinformation to spread their anti-Jewish beliefs to the general public. Moreover, their theories, derived from blatant fabrication of data, misquotations, and quotations used out of context, are presented under the deceptive mask of scholarship and are made available to the world by way of the Internet, radio, and television. Although only relatively few fringe groups, propagandists, and pseudo-scholars embrace Holocaust denial, their activity is increasing and the potential for their influence to grow is evident. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all Holocaust survivors, historians, and those sincere chroniclers of the Holocaust to inform the world of the truth before the peoples around the world potentially fall prey, over time, to collective amnesia and adopt a romantic mythical view of the past events.
Denying the fact that the Holocaust occurred makes about as much sense as claiming that the earth is flat. It was the meticulous Nazis themselves who produced a large portion of the documents now available to anyone who desires to peruse them. They all point to the deniers' hypocrisy and make it plain that their claim to a "Holocaust hoax" is an unmitigated farce. Furthermore, contrary to the deniers' assertions, Hitler was fully aware of and did, in fact, order the annihilation of the European Jews. The facts of the Holocaust are so well documented in serious scholarly accounts that denial of Hitler's responsibility for the murder of the Jews is too preposterous to require refutation and argument.

Source(s):
1. http://www.yadvashem.org
2. http://www.ushmm.org

Answer 3

They consider within the Jewish conspiracy (that Jews world wide are running in combination to take energy and manipulate the sector; a few humans for that reason additionally keep them liable for countrywide and worldwide crises such because the First World War) and they argue that the Holocaust is a lie instructed through Jews and Jewish sympathisers to regain credibility after the Nazis "uncovered them". Which is evidently a rather unfounded argument to mention the least! Try watching out "Denying the Holocaust" through Deborah Lipstadt, it is a particularly well booklet on why humans consider within the 'Holohoax' and the terrible penalties of humans believing matters like that. In reaction to aminu2763 (under) who believes that none folks have honestly seemed into the likelihood of it being a Hoax: I have. I wrote my dissertation for my last yr at the Holocaust and seemed right into a first-class deal of study. As good because the booklet I recounted above, I must additionally suggest "Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution" through Laurence Rees, and specially the TV documentary headquartered on that booklet which indicates a first-class deal of eye-witness bills and interviews with sufferers and perpetrators inside the Holocaust. Of direction we are not able to comfortably deny the likelihood of it being a Hoax with out watching on the proof, however there IS tons of proof and you should not anticipate feedback of Holohoax believers is blind attractiveness of the norm. It is attractiveness of info.

Answer 4

I personally believe that the Holocaust really happened. But there are going to be deniers out there as well. David Irving was jailed in Austria for being an active Holocaust denier, and I think that is dead wrong!! Everyone has a right to their own opinion/theory without being thrown into the clink for it. To throw people into jail for "thoughtcrime" is very 1984 - very frightening!!! It's not any different from Nazi Germany.

I always advocate freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

Answer 5

I think the problem is with the giving of Isreal to the Jews after WWII. Taking a people's holy land and dumping all the people that no other country wanted on such land would definately stir up some bad feelings.

Answer 6

I have heard a handful of deluded individuals say that they believe it was a hoax, but I don't think that very many people believe that! At least I hope not. *sm*

Answer 7

if body count is important, stalin killed far more of his own (non jew) in the gulags. the "holocaust" is an issue that zealots endlessly work to fan the flame.

we now have some big fish to fry, including a major economic diaster regarding the energy situation and atomic warfare regarding iran, north korea and pakistan.

move on and quit making a fool of yourself. everybody is sick to death of this dead horse. (i know, i know - those who forget the lessons of history are cursed to repeat them - i know, i know yadda yadda yadda).

Answer 8

When you have a hatred for a race of people you will say anything. There were more then Jews that died in those camps. As far as the President of Iran, he is a little man playing in the big boy's arena. He was one of the people that held our people captive and then did not have the guts to tell the truth when shown the pictures.

Answer 9

I don't think it was but I don't like when it is referred to as the "Jewish Holocaust" because in that, the Poles, gypsies, disabled, homosexuals, Russians, etc., are not acknowledged. The Holocaust was about far more than American history teaches. The numbers of different groups are questioned but in the face of the facts, nobody can truly deny that it happened.

Answer 10

Not untrue,just greatly exaggerated,not unlike some religious stories(,gets more press,I guess.)..

Answer 11

just because it's an "educated country" it doesn't mean everyone gets an education...

also many people are very easily manipulated...

so yes, some think that, but they seem to be the vast minority...