why would someone deny that the Holocaust?
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There is an excellent and very detailed analysis of this question in the book "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" by Michael Shermer. He discusses the motivations and tactics of those who deny the Holocaust ever happened; then he goes on to provide evidence of how we know it did. It's a fascinating book. I highly recommend it.\n\nAnd yes, as you can imagine, they are largely anti-Semitic with a bit of a paranoid streak, and tend to be conspiracy theorists as well.
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I don't believe your "faithfulness" notion here.  Where was your god during holocaust days?\n\nYou can't tell me there weren't any god-fearing jew / people in those camps.  \n\nDon't bother with the "well well" + explanations about the permissive will or any other sort of will of god, and all the other explanations that amount to "too bad for them glad it wasn't us" rationale.\n\nAll over the world, people suffer terribly through no fault of their own.  Your god doesn't seem so faithful.  \n\nPerhaps you're simply lucky!
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The Holocaust (as opposed to lower-case "holocaust") is the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and approximately the same number of non-Jews by Nazi Germany led by Adolph Hitler.  Yes, it happened.  There are still survivors alive today who were there, as well as Americans, British, etc. who were involved in the liberation of the death camps who also witnessed the devastation.\n\nThe main deniers today are Moslems, as well as organized racist groups in Western countries (such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan in the US).
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If you mean the holocaust, its something that Jews made up so they could rule the media.
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it isn't. no one debates the fact that us white folks suck and killed the natives for their lands. unfortunately there are still idiots that try to say the holocaust never happened. Another thing ppl like to forget is that Hitler not only murdered 6,000,000 Jews but also 5,000,000 others for being gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally retarded. Don't forget all the people he murdered for helping these groups as well. Bottom line Indians were killed for what they had Jews for what they were. Therein lies the definition of the word holocaust. What the real question is why does no one remember that in 1994 there was another holocaust in Rwanda that the UN turned it's back to????because there was nothing in it for us to gain???? Nearly 1,000,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered for a name give to their tribe by the british. For no other reason than jealousy and hatred. We here in the US were too worried about whether our president should have oral sex to concern ourselves over the daily killing of hundreds of thousands of babies. Maybe the Rwandese should have gotten a better publicist....
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First, if you are going to try to raise a fundamental question about the authenticity of anything, try to do it in good English.  I hate having to wade through bad grammar and poor sentence structure in order to delve someone's meaning.  And second, if you are referring to that tired old argument about the holocaust being fake, then you are barking up the wrong tree.  The Holocaust happened and there is nothing you or your deluded friends can do about it.  I suspect that you know this and are just using it to stir up sentiments about something about which obviously you know nothing.
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One person claims that " you certainly have to avoid a huge amount of evidence to make such a claim." The same is true in reverse! \n\nMany people are ignorant and believe anything the government tells them. Truth is the holocaust industry is a billion dollar industry that also provides much revenue for the government. If the truth were known it would kill this huge industry of propaganda.\n\nMany people choose to be ignorant and don't know that there education is picked for them and they are trained to learn only what the government wants you to learn. Then comes the internet wereas we can no longer fool our children and they are learning the truth about hoaxes and other lies our government told us. Yet some people refuse to learn or even gather enough intestinal fortitude to even desire to know what is and what is not.\n\nThe links below will show that some people are so ignorant that even while they claim that one would have to avoid a hugh amount of evidence  to make such a claim would also support that they also would have  to avoid a huge amount of evidence to the contrary in order to substantiate such a ridiculous claim.\n\nSome countries are prosecuting people for holocaust denile. during their trial they are not alowed to provide any evidence agaisnt the so-called holocaust or they will be charged again. Once found guilty and denied any real defence they will serve 3 or more years for holocaust denile. Their attornies are not alowed to use anything that debunks the holocaust or they also will be charged with holocaust denile. See how morbidly insane this is! There is literally no defense , once you are charged there is no manner in which you can defend yourself because it is illegal to deny the holocaust. They have a win-win situation and you have the lose-lose situation. \n\n This is morbidly insane and only insane minds would support such a trial. Any government that supports this kind of trial  ceases to be the governemnt of the people and has selected one event over all events in history to protect. It has become a religion of the sick minded and surely will evolve in such a manner in the future that those who perpetrated this insane witch hunt will become the victims of their own insane hoax upon their people they swore to government with honesty.\n\nIf the holocaust is such a true event then it needs no laws to protect it because it will stand on its own merit. TRUTH NEEDS NO LAWS TO PROTECT IT ,ONLY LIARS AND DECIEVERS NEED LAWS TO PROTECT THEM AND THEIR LIES. That is why this needs laws to protect it, because it is flawed and most certainly a hoax.\n\nIf the holocaust were a true event it would defeat any denier in court on its own merit. It can't, therefore it is a lie that needs laws to keep certain people from questioning and investigating it for truth. It is insane, and any who do not thrive for the truth and search the other side of the story insanely follow the insane.\n\nTell me how insane it is that Hitler only wanted an aryan race of people whom are blue eyed and blonde hair when he alone had dark brown eyes and black hair and was half Jew himself. Look it up, don't trust Google but look it up under "HITLERS JEWISH ARMY." If this is true and history shows it to be true then the Jews are responsible for it alone and the burden should be lifted off everyones sholders.\n\nOh here it is (added at a later date) Hitlers Jewish Army :\nhttp://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html\n\nAlso: http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2002/09/were-there-jews-in-hitlers-army-if.html\n\nProof Hitler was a Jew NOT A GERMAN :http://worldwarll.www4.50megs.com/ahlife.htm\n\nThis is documented fact so now we can put it to rest and say that Jews are responsible for the so-called holocaust upon their own people. Shame on them! They did it to themselves , end of story, they owe us all reparations for hoaxing us and taking our much earned money to support their fraud upon America and the rest of the world
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Brooke, I sympathize. They can't handle historical fact - all they have is their one book, and they believe everything in it. So outside fact has no meaning. If the bible told them the sky was pink, they would look at it and say "what a pretty pink sky". If you told them it was blue, they would argue forever about how the bible says it's pink, so it's pink. They still refuse to accept that Hitler was a Christian, even though we've provided tons of evidence that he slaughtered the Jews due to his religious beliefs. Don't take it too personally - the christers don't like people messing with their world view.
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Definitely a MYTH, both in existence and scale\nJust Jewish propaganda to deceive the world.
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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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I am taking a holocaust class in collage. The way I understand it is that Hilterand the germans blamed the Jews for everything. Losing the war, denying Jesus Christ, and they had the best shops and house that money could buy. He had that took from them. To help u out a little more go to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. If u have more questions e-mail at Njacobs7477@yahoo.com, I will be glad to help u.
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There most certainly are people who believe not only that the Holocaust never happened, but that all of the pictures, etc were faked. There's an entire generation of young adults in Germany who were taught absolutely nothing about the Holocaust & it was only after the Fall of the Berlin Wall that they began to realize they'd had a "glossed over" version of history. I don't care how much you dislike a subject in history, it happened & can't be changed & SHOULDN'T be re-written to make it palatable or p.c. If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
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Primarily because it was popular to do so at the time.  Hitler believed in a conspiracy theory that said the Jews wanted to take over the world.   Hitler wrote (well he dictated it and it was heavily edited) called Mein Kampf - My Struggle in English, that does shed some light on his anti-Semitism (hating of the Jewish people)  I've included some resources below that may help you in your research. \n\n(I am not Jewish, but in an effort to be unbiased I must disclose that I do have Jewish relatives. The links I provided I have found personally useful and I find their coverage of the Holocaust to almost universally accepted.  There are however small groups which feel that the Holocaust never happened.  You will have to draw your own conclusions.  I was not alive then but the historical records and primary source material I have consulted have convinced me of the horrible reality of the Holocaust or Shoah.)
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Hi, I'm so sorry but this is one subject that cannot be simplified, I've tried long and hard to find sites that can be directed for young people, alas to no avail, so here is what we have to work with.\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\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\nThe Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\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\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nGood luck.
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Everything you said is true. I actually know a person who never votes but complains about politicians every day. This person also insists that the Holocaust never happened. So you see, there are many idiots out there.
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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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The most important fact about the Holocaust is this:  Some otherwise normal people almost wiped out an entire race just to feel better about themselves.  \n\nThe second most important fact about the Holocaust is this:  They failed.