The Holocaust was a period that spanned 1933 to 1945 where about 6 million jews died because of Nazi Germany and their policies. The leader of the Nazis, Adolf Hitler, hated Jews because he blamed them for Germany losing WW1 and putting them into a weak position in Europe. First the Jews had to wear special clothes to distinguish them from others, then they weren’t allowed in certain places, then they were sent to concentration camps where they were killed, experiment on, and even worked to death. We have evidence of these horrible things happening, we have firsthand accounts of what happened, some people who survived these events are still alive today, yet some people deny it happened.
A holocaust denier thinks that the holocaust didn’t happen or that it didn’t happen to the extent that people think. The Institute for Historical Review, formed by Willis Carto in 1978, was the first major organization that denied the holocaust, of deniers existed before this but this was a group who could spread more propaganda. Carto’s German counterpart, Ernst Zundel, is a big figure in holocaust denial, although he died in 2017. Zundel made the Samisdat Publishers in Toronto, Canada in 1977, this company does not exist anymore. This company published the Leuchter Report, which swabbed the walls of gas chambers in Auschwitz, this report is very biased. Zundel is also banned from Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, and Lithuania.
I believed that the Holocaust did happen because of the evidence we have, like pictures, real survivors, and structures.
Do you think the Holocaust happened?
What is your opinion on Holocaust Deniers?
Source: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial
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I am positive the Holocaust happened, and I don't understand why people want to deny the truth. Even if it makes people, places, or offenders look bad, it still happened, you can't change it or wish it all away. There are survivers, there are people who fought, and most importantly - there were family members grieving their lost ones. I think that Holocaust Deniers are people who (a) live in a happy-go-lucky world where everything is all glitter and rainbows, and they don't what that massecre of innocent people hanging over their heads, or (b) they don't want society to riot and whatever, so they make it seem like it wasn't as bad as it really was and that - maybe it didn't exist after all- I think that we need to know the Holocaust, so that history doesn't repeat itself.