Holocaust is a Myth or a reality?
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If you're Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or a neo-Nazi or something, it's a myth.  Here on planet Earth, however, it's a horrifying reality.  I've seen actual footage -to say it's horrific is something of an understatement, I think.
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Yep, and the Nurmberg trials alone had 7 freightcars loaded with affidavits documents and testimony supporting the holocaust... then came the real investigation.\n\nThe nay-sayers (anti-Simites) evidence so far comprises only a small bookcase full of tainted opinion.        \n\nSee (http://blog.myspace.com/gunnyrant)
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It's not a question of belief. It's something that happened during WWII. If you want to know what it really means come to my country, Poland, and go see the former concentration camp in the city of Oswiecim. It was a place where mostly Jews, Gypsies and Poles where kept during the war in inhumane conditions. They were killed there in gas chambers, but before that their gold teeth were pulled out, their hair shaved... You can see the actual remnants like those in the museum. Nazis also used human body fat to make soap. Also, medical experiments were being carried out on the camp prisoners during war, for example - they tried to change your eye colour by injecting some chemicals into it and did all sorts of mutilation to people while they were still alive.\nAs I said - it's not a question of belief. It did happen, it is documented, you can see the photos, talk to the people who survived it, see the piles of shoes, clothes, hair, watches, glasses of the ones who died in the concentration camps, visit the sites of mass graves. \nAnd then you can start wondering how on earth one human could do such a thing to another human being.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million.\n\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), Serbs (targeted mostly by Croat Nazi Ustashas, over a million killed), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]
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Whether the Holocaust really happened or not only matters for Israel, and Germany, cause Israel benefits from that claim, and i think that Germany is still compensating for Israel..\nBut what matters for all of us, is the possibility of such a terrible thing to happen to any one, or any group.\nA lots of terrible things like the Holocaust are happening in the world right now.. Like the hunger in some african countries, the diseases, and lots more.\nSome estimate that 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Isn't that a Holocaust?\nI hope we work to prevent Holocausts, rather than argue about an ugly part of our human history..
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If it's not real, it's not a fact. You can't find an unreal fact, because a fact is something that is real and true..... You could make something up and call it a fact, but it wouldn't be.
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Mentioning events in history doesn't make you a racist. It's ok to say "Holocaust."\n\nThings happen because either: \n\n1. There is no God and actions in life are completely random.\n2. Fate, destiny, testing faith, etc. exists.\n3. There is a God, but there is no divine plan and actions in life are completely random.\n\nAnd what ever you choose to believe above, bad things happen in life...to everyone.
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Yep. True story.\n\nBut not real nukes.
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Why is anyone even asking this question?  The level of ingorance that one has to have to doubt it happened - only serves to perpetuate the root causes of this holocaust and create more in the future.\n\nSee the movie The Man in the Glass Booth, about Eichmann's trial in 1966.  If you get to travel in Europe, go see the sites of Sobibor, Auscwitz, Treblinka, Madenek, Dachau, read up on Babi Yar in Russia and talk to any Jewish person from Europe.
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
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my grandfather survived the holocaust and i very sure that he isnt lying about it, i can see the number in his arm. \n\nTHE HOLOCAUST   \n\n   \n\nThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.\n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.\n  \n\n   \n \nThe Holocaust\nSee maps\n\nBefore beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities.\n\nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.
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Yes and no. Here is my academic, working-on- my-master's -in-mythology answer: Anything can be both oral history and mythology. For that matter, anything can be hard-fact history and mythology. The academic definition of a myth is a story that gives significance to a religion or a culture, *whether true, false, or unproven*. The entire Bible, though much is historical fact, can be classified as mythology, as can the documented details of Siddhartha Gautama's life, the writings of Confucius, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's global warming chart.
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It's a historical fact that the holocaust took place. The jews were blamed for the German's down fall, depression or whatever and so Hitler convinced the people by getting rid of them it would solve everything! So, yes they were tortured,starved and even beaten to death along with gays,gypsys and disabled people.
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This question has been run into the ground.  The Holocaust of the 1930'and 40's was a factual occurrence in the history of man.  There are to many living witnesses, physical evidence,and documentation to think otherwise.  It does not matter how many times this question is asked, it is not going to make the facts change to meet your needs.
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Many people were killed in WWII including the Jews.\nbut the story of holocaust was made up by the Zionist Jews to pretend they were not safe in Europe and they needed their own homeland. That was the main pretext for invading and occupying palestine, a country that had no role in the war. But let it be said that there are some Jews who oppose occupation of Palestine.
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The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\n\nhttp://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html\n\nhttp://www.shamash.org/holocaust/\n\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html\n\nhttp://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/\n\nThe Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.\n\nhttp://www.holocaust-history.org/\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0312\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/\n\nOur site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust.  Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles.  Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\n\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nThe image galleries on this site have been grouped into ten sections for your convenience. Click on the sample thumbnail photo to view all of the galleries in any section.\n\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm#1\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe, along with various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry in particular.