Community Book Event

Students in Facing History and Ourselves classes will host an event for the community to discuss the book Night, a Holocaust survivor memoir by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel. For details about the event, contact the class instructor, David Cohen.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Holocaust Denial

Even today, there are groups that deny the occurence of the Holocaust, claiming it was fabricated by the Allied forces and the Jews. Common evidence provided by these groups include almanacs that report the number of Jews stayed stable during the war, and chemists and experts testifying that the gas chambers were mocked up and actually unable to execute anyone. The point of this argument is that the Nazis did not actually make plans to commit genocide on the Jews within Germany.

I came across an interesting article which takes a nicely sized sledgehammer to that position.

"Starting in 1942, the Jews began circulating rumors that they were all being killed. These rumors filtered through various news agencies, from various sources.

By 1945, the Jews had forged tens of thousands of Nazi documents, all "proving" that the Nazis had committed mass murder. The Jews invented the whole thing in a whirlwind effort. They invented the places where the gassings took place. They researched and invented the techniques that were used. They forged photographs and wove them into the documentary record.

Their Jewish chemists figured out which perfectly ordinary buildings would be palmed off as gas chambers. They forged reports of how well the gassing operations were going. They forged reports to Hitler saying that the Eastern territories were free of Jews.

They forged inventories of the morgues, saying there were showerheads and gas-tight doors in them. They forged the whole story about SS guards being taken to a special camp to get them used to the idea of killing Jews.

Everything, every bit of it, forged.

Somehow the Jews got their Jew agents to be there when this forged evidence was presented to Hoess and Broad and Kremer and all the dozens of Nazis tried in 1945 and 1946. All of them must have had the same initial reaction: "what!? I never wrote that!?" but the Jew agents, of course, slapped them around a bit until they admitted it was true. And the Jew agents were very good, because every single one of them admitted that it was true. Those agents must have been quite good at making Nazis admit things, because a lot of those Nazis were seasoned military men. Where'd they hire those agents from?

They found a few thousand Jews who were willing to lie through their teeth and say that Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not a concentration camp. They must have held a big meeting, gathered all the survivors together, and briefed them. "OK," the Head Jew would have said, "repeat after me: Auschwitz was not a nice place to live. You did not go swimming at Auschwitz. Auschwitz used its morgues to gas people. In the summer of 1944 they burned bodies in ditches. Everyone on the left, you actually saw people being led to the gas chambers. You on the right, you did not, but you heard a lot about it." And so on."

-http://www.holocaust-history.org/~jamie/the-hoax.shtml



1 comment:

  1. For further reading, I recommend:

    regarding "The Final Solution" -
    http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477

    Responding to Holocaust Deniers:
    http://www.adl.org/holocaust/response.asp

    Additional response from the Nizkor Project:
    http://www.nizkor.org/

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