Holocaust Denial?

Question

Two things (if you answer one of them, that is good enough)
1) What arguments are made from holocaust deniers?
2) What's the first statement that comes to mind when you think about holocaust denial? (true or false, does not matter)

Answer 1

1. Many holocaust deniers argue that the holocaust was "made up" to either make Germans feel guilt, make Europeans feel guilt, and/or rally aid and support behind the Jews, whom they usually hate. Some of the leading holocaust deniers include radical middle eastern leaders (Iran's leader openly denied the holocaust), and some radical European antisemites.

2. The first statement that comes to mind? Wishful thinking, and anti-semitism. They probably hate or dislike Jews, and don't want anyone helping them in the least, so that they can just be obliterated by radical and extremist enemies.

Edit: As several have mentioned, there are mountains of evidence to prove that it did happen, but critics simply dismiss all the evidence and say "there is no evidence...."

Most convincing to me is the personal accounts by survivors. Try disproving that.

Answer 2

1) First, Holocaust denial has very different perspectives and is not just anti-semitic in nature. There are those who are ignorant and hateful who claim the Holocaust was a hoax out of simple bigotry and apologetic for the Nazi's. These people are simply ignorant and foolish considering there is ample proof by the Nazi's themselves that they eliminated Jews on Mass from 1941 onward.

There is also a variety of people whose research on the Holocaust is based for political purposes. Many academic Middle Eastern deniers know full well that Jews were collectively killed, but raise the issues of what and what not to believe to raise the eventual question of modern Israel's right and reason for creation.

Finally, there are actually numerous scholars and academics that contest methods used by the Holocaust industry to propell Israel's cause internationally and extort money out of foreign governments ( As long as it isn't the USA).
An example of this form of denial is- that most Jewish organizations accept Holocaust Historian Raul Hilberg's number that there were 5.1 million Jewish victims and about 100,000 living camp survivors in 1945 with an 80% death rate by now. However, the reperations conferences have claimed that there are still another 135,000 still alive today, insinuating that there were about 700,000 in 1945. Himmler himself said that there were no more than 500,000 in the camps and Jews only were 20% of them at that point. So clearly either there were less killed, statistics were wrong, or the Holocaust Industry is exaggerating for money and political purposes.

2) My first thoughts are ignorance and hypocrisy. No one can credibly deny the Jewish Holocaust occured. However, I see much hypocrisy to the extent that the WJC and JDL not only deny other people's genocides as a Holocaust but also actively lobby that others do so as well. The Holocaust industry is just as guilty of Holocaust denial when it comes to everyone else suffering.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
an entire article about this...

Criticism of Holocaust denial? How about the 6 million Jews killed....

Answer 4

2) Pictures don't lie and I suppose the millions of eye witness accounts would never hold up in a court of law?

Oh yeah and the sun won't shine tomorrow although it may from some peoples blessed *** urances.

Answer 5

Well Ahmanenejad (er however you spell it) said that they wee at war with each other and all the dead Jews DIC(Died In Conflict)

Answer 6

1) There are no convincing arguments, only a lot of ignorance, hot air and hate.

2) It is truly despicable to deny something so despicable and so widely accepted as truth based on loads and loads of physical evidence.

Answer 7

Deniers claim there is no real proof that anyone was actually killed en masse. Weirdly enough, the pictures of prisoners showing men and women starved to death were taken when the war was over or nearly over and the Allies had reached the camps. Most of the starvation occurred because the Allies kept the prisoners in the camps for some time after wards and did not have enough food to care for everyone (this is trivial). A misconception is that only Jewish people were in concentration camps. Most of the people imprisoned were Slavic (Russian, Polish, Eastern European), Gypsies (Roma), criminals, homosexuals, and social outcasts. However, there is no answer for the documented cases of mass killings of people. Deniers argue that documentation, like many other things, can be fabricated after the fact. I believe, however, that there was a number of inhuman atrocities, including mass killings--but do not look down so hard on the Germans without knowing that Americans have done the same kinds of horrible things to native Hawaiians, Phillipinos, Iraqis, Native Americans, Vietnamese, and native Cubans. If you'd like to know more about this, feel free to contact me.

Answer 8

1. It didn't happen and nothing you say will change my mind. Besides, there were never 6 million Jews in Germany.

2. The deniers are idiots or anti-Semitics.