The Holocaust: The Deniers Of The Holocaust

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The Deniers of the Holocaust Doubters of the holocaust were once able to get attention from a great amount of people, trying to convince people that the holocaust is a hoax and such events like the gassing and the mass exterminations of Jews has never happened. The first Holocaust doubters even claimed that all the talk about the Holocaust was made up by the Jews and all the pictures and videos were made in the Jewish cinemas. Although these debaters are not as active now as they were years earlier, they were successful in getting many uninformed people to believe them; they did it by mixing facts with their own opinions. Without giving any respect to the people that lived through and survived the Holocaust, many people prefer to bring up…show more content…
The main goal of these people is to promote Nazism or fascism, or prevent Jews from having their own country. There are two types of groups of people that are considered to be deniers of the Holocaust, as the “Holocaust Denial on Trial” organization said: The goal of Holocaust deniers in the West is political -- they want to rehabilitate Nazism and fascism in general and Adolf Hitler in particular -- and to promote anti-Semitism and, at times, anti-Israel sentiment. Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world seems to be driven primarily by the goal of undermining what is perceived to be a powerful justification for Israel's…show more content…
A lot of Jews lost their lives during those years, some survived with scars that will never heal. But some people, despite the great amount of witnesses, ignore them and claim their information as false. By reading the information that the deniers of the Holocaust provide for people, it is easily noticeable that the deniers are racist toward Jews. It is why the people that deny the Holocaust will continue to deny it no matter how much proof is going to be provided. 1Works Cited Criticism of Holocaust Denial. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 02 Feb. 2012 Deborah Lipstadt et al. “What is the Holocaust Denial?” Holocaust Denial on Trial. Emory University. N.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2012 Haugen, David, and Susan Musser, eds. Perspectives on Modern World History. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Print Lasson, Kenneth. “Defending Truth: Legal and Psychological Aspects of Holocaust Denial.” Current Psycholog 26 3/4: n. pag. Web. 2 Feb. 2012 Shermer, Michael, and Alex Grobman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why do they Say it? Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
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