Reasons for believing the Holocaust never happened?

Question

I know people strongly believe this, but what is their evidence and reasoning?

Answer 1

That's because it's one huge conspiracy involving millions of people from fake Holocaust survivors, fake eye-witnesses, thousands of fake photos of fake bodies and fake victims, etc...

The concentration camps were weight-loss centers.... and whatever else those nimrods can dream up to deny the overwhelming evidence of the Holocaust.

Anyway, Holocaust deniers are hate-filled loonies who are fueled by hatred not a truth-seeking zeal. I don't bother to debate them because debate is futile with these people. Their evidence is scanty at best and resembles mainly pedantically picking apart the smallest of dust motes in Holocaust histories. Or I should say most of them just parrot some discredited researcher as many of them don't have the brain power to generate their own arguments.

As for reasoning - since when does hatred need a reason?

Answer 2

I do not believe the holocaust happened the way it is said to have happen today (6 million jews and 6 million non-jews). All the time the holocaust story changes. All scientific and historic evidence points to only a couple hundred thousand died at most, and most of those were from diseases and starvation. In fact, most educated people agree. I question the official holocaust story just like everyone should. It doesn't make you anti-Jewish or anything. We must remember that not only Jews died but everyone that disagreed with the Nazis. I do not want to deny the holocaust not only because it happened but because my ancestors were in the biggest holocaust of all times.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone believes the Holocaust NEVER happened, because it obviously did.
I think what they mean is that maybe they exaggerate the number of people who were killed. Or they exaggerate the story a bit.
I once spoke to someone who didn't believe in the Holocaust completely, and I asked him why. He said that, the reason why he questions it is because at that time the number of Jews that were killed, did not match up the number of people that actually were Jews, so that is why he questions it.

I don't know because I have not done research on this topic so i cannot say if it is true or not, but this is just one reason.

Answer 4

Some do, and it seems a curious, sad and dangerous thing to me.

A friend strongly resented the whole notion and visited some of the concentration camp sites in Germany a few years back - he returned full of stories of how there was "no evidence", the "showers" were just that, no gas, no ovens... those who had died were simply "unfortunate prisoners for whom no resources remained - they died just as would have Germans here had we had to incarcerate so many" - he also rejected the numbers outright as impossible.

The argument put back to him - "6 million, 6 thousand, 6 hundred - any by that system is too many" - and his reaction to pictures and accounts given by GIs who saw the end of the war there provoked a little different reaction. Confronted with visceral images and the tellings of people who came in and found half-buried corpses and such he became eager to understand more than he'd led himself to believe.

It has not come up again. I cannot explain his sudden passion for his denial on his return from abroad except to say something inside was triggered - and with it a betrayel of anti-semitism (realizing it was by far not just Jews who were miserably abused and put to death) perhaps? It is equally as hard to explain his reversal - perhaps it is just something inside many people who don't want to accept the thing because it is so gut-wrenching - it SHOULD not be true, it MUST be propaganda, I don't WANT this blood on human hands - ANY hands.

But it cannot be denied - nor taught out of history except at our great common peril.

Answer 5

It is interesting but in Northern Alberta Canada a school teacher was teaching his students that the Holocaust never happened and that it was a big conspiracy by jews to help them take over the world. The man taught for over 20 years before anyone realized what he was doing.
Imagine being taught that in school, of course you would believe your teacher. Those poor people must have been shocked to learn the truth.
I would like to believe that all racists are taught wrong and can be persuaded to the truth if we just educate them. If only we could be given the chance

Answer 6

The people who deny the Holocaust, like Ahmanejad in Iran, don't say the second part of their sentiment, which is "...and let's do it again." Holocaust deniers are almost always crypto-Nazis driven by a fierce hatred of Jews. The evidence of the Holocaust is overwhelming. The Germans were excellent record keepers. The reasoning is hate.

Answer 7

The primary reason is that whenever one's strongly held values and beliefs are contradicted by facts, there is a tendency to want to subvert the facts to fit the values/beliefs, so they'll ignore any evidence that contradicts their beliefs in favor of any that support it (no matter how much weaker the latter may be). In this case, the belief is that Jews are more evil than others.

Answer 8

I don't know what anyone's evidence and reasoning is that the Holocaust never happened.

I will just quote Billy Wilder:

"If the Holocaust never happened, then where's my uncle?"

Answer 9

I used to have a job that took me to peoples houses for yard work. One old lady would not come out of her house but had to answer the door to talk to me. She had a number tattooed on her wrist. She was the right age to be a child in the concentration camps as a child. I don't know why anyone would choose to ignore history. That is when it is repeated.

Answer 10

How can anybody think the Holocaust never happened? Sounds like a bad rumor to me.