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What is Holocaust Denial?

02.

Why do some people deny the Holocaust?

03.

What are the basic views of Holocaust deniers?

04.

How can Holocaust Revisionists deny Nazi atrocities given all the evidence?

05.

Are Holocaust Deniers historians?

06.

Don't Holocaust deniers present facts to back up their arguments?

PART B

What are some of the main claims of Holocaust revisionists. How are they rebutted?

07.

The Holocaust was merely Allied propaganda.

08.

There is no proof that the Holocaust occurred.

09.

The estimates of Jewish losses during the Holocaust are greatly exaggerated. There were never even 6 million Jews in Germany.

10.

Didn't the International Committee for the Red Cross report that only 300,000 people had perished in the German concentration camps, not all of them Jews?

11.

Nazi policy towards the Jews was emigration, not extermination.

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Not a single document has been found with Hitler's signature ordering the extermination of the Jews.

13.

Zyklon B was a fumigant. It wasn't a practical agent for mass murder.

14.

If Zyklon B is so highly toxic, how could bodies have been removed from gas chambers only minutes after execution?

15.

Zyklon B is so highly flammable that a single spark from the ventilation system or the immense heat created by the nearby furnaces would have resulted in an explosion.

16.

There is no proof whatsoever that the Nazis ever murdered anyone in gas chambers.

17.

American engineer and execution 'expert', Fred Leuchter, proved that the 'so-called' gas chambers at Auschwitz could not have been used for their 'alleged' purpose.

18.

Didn't Simon Wiesenthal himself state that there were no extermination camps in Germany?

19.

For years, the death statistics at Auschwitz-Birkenau had been put at well over 3 million. Recently, however, a memorial plaque at the former death camp estimates Jewish losses closer to 1 million. Shouldn't the new figures imply that Jewish losses for the Holocaust are much lower than previously thought?

20.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a fraud. I t was written in ball point pen, which was not in common use until after her death.

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What is Holocaust Denial?

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Holocaust Denial, also known as Holocaust Revisionism, is the attempt to deny or trivialize the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany against Jews and others during World War II.

For an internationally accepted definition see the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion.

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02.

Why do some people deny the Holocaust?

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Most Holocaust deniers want to wash away the stain of Nazism in an attempt to make Nazism an acceptable political alternative today. Many have present and past ties with hate groups and are trying to shed that image by masquerading themselves as seekers of historical truth, rather than merchants of bigotry. Holocaust denial is an important tool for anti-Semites. On July 24, 1996, Harold Covington, leader of the National Socialist White People's Party, explained why:

"Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history..."

Holocaust denial is an updated version of an alleged Jewish conspiracyin which Jews use lies and extortion to gain advantage of everyone else. The common denominator to all Holocaust deniers is anti-Semitism.

This big-lie is especially painful for Holocaust survivors and all those who lost loved ones to Nazi mass murder who are confronted by people who deny their suffering and loss.

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What are the basic views of Holocaust deniers?

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Holocaust deniers argue that Nazi Germany was the victim of a conspiracy, contrived by the Allies to brand Nazi Germany the villain of World War II. They maintain that the U.S. and Great Britain concocted wild atrocity stories about the Nazis to cover up their own war crimes. Jews, they claim, joined the conspiracy in order to prey upon the sympathies of the world and extort money from post-war Germany in order to establish the State of Israel. (Arab leaders have sometimes resorted to Holocaust denial in an attempt to delegitimize the existence of the State of Israel). To one degree or another, Holocaust revisionists claim the Holocaust is an exaggeration, if not an outright hoax. Many argue that Hitler's intentions were peaceful, and that the real villains of the war were actually U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and the Jews.

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How can Holocaust Revisionists deny Nazi atrocities given all the evidence?

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Holocaust revisionists claim the survivors of the Holocaust lied about their experiences, that Allied soldiers who liberated the camps exaggerated what they saw, that the films and photos of Nazi atrocities-even those captured from the Nazis themselves- were made up later, that captured Nazi documents were forged, and that confessions made by the accused were coerced. They deny the existence of the gas chambers used by the Nazis to murder millions and that they were built by the Allies after the war to make Germany look bad. Moreover, the Jews who did die in concentration camps were actually victims of disease. In fact, they argue that the Allies should be held for those deaths, because their bombing attacks prevented the delivery of supplies and medicines from reaching the camps.

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05.

Are Holocaust Deniers historians?

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Although Holocaust Revisionists would like people to believe they are serious students of history, virtually none of them are historians, nor are any of them recognized as such in the academic world. Perhaps the most famous Holocaust Revisionist author is David Irving, who holds no university degree. In 1996, Irving sued American scholar in England, Deborah Lipstadt for libel. Lipstadt had accused Irving of being a Hitler apologist and Nazi sympathizer as well as dishonest researcher. Irving was found by the British court to be a "falsifier of history, anti-Semitic, and a racist who he associated with right-wing extremists who promoted neo-Nazism." The trial concluded with verdict for Lipstadt.

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Don't Holocaust deniers present facts to back up their arguments?

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The claims of Holocaust deniers are grounded in flawed research, biased statements and, in many cases, deliberately falsified evidence. At the same time, they deny the authenticity of documents, eyewitness testimonies, films and photos that historians have concluded to be authentic. Holocaust Revisionists often copy the practices of genuine scholars by holding their own conventions or citing the works of other Holocaust deniers -as if they were facts- all in the attempt to deceive the public.

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07.

The Holocaust was merely Allied propaganda.

A 07.

The Allies actually ignored reports filtering out of Europe about the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Even when convinced of their veracity, they tried to withhold the information from the public. On August 8, 1942, Dr. Gerhart Riegner, the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, asked the U.S. delegation in Switzerland to relay information about Germany's plan to exterminate all European Jews under its control to American Jewish leader, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. The information had been given to Riegner by a highly-placed German official. Instead of relaying the message, the U.S. State Department actually withheld it and ordered its Swiss delegation not to relay any such reports in the future.

In the same year, a member of the Polish underground Jan Karski, had secretly been smuggled into a German concentration camp in Poland. Making his way out, he was sent to London by the Underground to deliver his report on the horrors he witnessed. Karski spoke with both Roosevelt and Churchill. History records, however, that Karski's pleas were largely dismissed.

One need only check the major newspapers of the period to realize how little attention was paid to Nazi atrocities. If the Holocaust was merely "propaganda," why did the Allies go to such lengths to downplay it?

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08.

There is no proof that the Holocaust occurred.

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No crime in history has been as well-documented as the Holocaust. Proof of the Holocaust is multi-faceted. It is demonstrated by a myriad of documents, the majority of them Nazi-authored, captured by Allied troops before the Germans had a chance to destroy them. Included are detailed reports of mass shootings and gassings. Some 3,000 documents on the destruction of Europe's Jewish community by the Nazis were, in fact, presented by the prosecution before war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg.

The first-hand testimony of survivors who lived through the horrors of the death camps as well as the reports and confessions by the perpetrators leave little doubt as to the nature of Hitler's "Final Solution." Horrifying films and photos of killing operations and their aftermath can only begin to give us a picture of the extent of Nazi bestiality; as do the reports, photos and films taken by the liberators. Allied officers and troops were sickened by what they saw at sites of slaughter they had just liberated.

It is important to note, that no Nazi war crimes suspect who stood trial in the post- war years for their misdeeds ever claimed that the crimes of which they were accused were fictional. They instead argued that they were "only following orders."

The evidence is, in fact, so overwhelming that on October 9, 1981, Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the California Superior Court, took judicial notice of the Holocaust ruling that, "The Holocaust is not reasonably subject to dispute. It is capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to resources of reasonable indisputable accuracy. It is simply a fact."

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09.

The estimates of Jewish losses during the Holocaust are greatly exaggerated. There were never even 6 million Jews in Germany.

A 09.

It is true that Germany had fewer than 600,000 Jews when Hitler came to power in 1933. The majority of Jews murdered by the Nazis, however, did not live in Germany. They resided in the countries which Germany invaded during the war, especially Poland and areas of the former Soviet Union, where millions of Jews once made their homes. In fact, the Protocol of the Wannsee Conference (Jan. 20, 1942) a German document outlining the Nazi plan to annihilate European Jewry, lists over 11 million Jews throughout the continent.

The 6 million figure can be demonstrated by comparing Europe's Jewish population before and after the war. Even after making allowances for those who fled Europe and others who could be expected to die due to natural causes, there are nearly 6,000,000 people who cannot be accounted for.

Authentic German documents confirm the slaughter of Jews in the millions. The famous "Korherr Report" (named after Richard Korherr, chief statistician for the SS) puts the number of Jewish losses at more than 2,454,000 by the end of 1942 alone. The war in Europe would not end until May, 1945.

The Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry, meeting in April 1946, put the total Jewish Holocaust losses at 5,721,500. On the basis of wartime statistical reports on ghettos, concentration camps and mass murder operations carried out by the Nazis, historian and international jurist, Jacob Robinson, arrived at a figure of 5,820,960. German historian, Helmut Krausnick, put the number of Jewish losses nearer to seven million. While the exact figure will never be known, scholars of the Holocaust find the rounded-off figure of six million to be in line with all the evidence.

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What is Holocaust Denial? - Museum of Tolerance

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