Deniers of the Holocaust

Deniers of the Holocaust

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Becky C
Background on the Holocaust

• Many Jewish people were killed
• Holocaust is Greek in origin meaning, "sacrifice by fire."
• By May of 1945, 2/3 of Jews were murdered
• Nazis didn't just target Jews, also targeted, Poles, Russians, and Slavic
• Nazis created ghettos to isolate Jews

History of Holocaust Denial

• Institute for Historical Review created to ridicule the Holocaust
• IHR became very powerful in its denial claims
• IHR made up of Neo-Nazis (New-Nazi movement) and anti-Semites (anti-Jew)
• Most Holocaust deniers will call themselves "revisionists."

Denying the evidence

• Disproving the mass killing of Jews in gas chamber is key to establishing no genocide was involved
• Deniers claim the Jews were tragic victims of raging epidemics
• Movies and pictures of liberated concentration camps were taken
• Many deniers claim the movies and pictures are fake

Forced labor at Auscwitz

Auschwitz

Gas chamber door
Who are the Deniers?

• David Irving is one of the leaders of the deniers
• Irving spent years poring over Nazi archives
• Irving publicly claimed there were no gas chambers at Aushwitz
• He was tried, convicted, and fined in a German court for saying this
• Bobby Fischer, chess player extraordinaire
• Fisher's parents were Jewish
• Fischer believes in world-wide Jewish conspiracy against him

David Irving (on right) with former Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer at Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct 11, 1979

Bobby Fischer
Public Reaction to Holocaust Denial

• In 2006, Koffi Annan said it is important to rebuke the Holocaust deniers
• Elie Weisell calls the Holocaust the most documented tragedy in history
• Holocaust denial is no illegal in most European countries
• Most courts will deny the deniers claims to their "freedom of expression"

Koffi Annan
Proof Against the Deniers

• Hitler shot himself in the head to avoid Soviet capture and military trial for the Holocaust
• Heinrich Himmler shot himself as well to avoid war crimes including the Holocaust
• Deniers fail to follow true evidence
• Official documents and eye-witness accounts are true evidence
• Nazi government had Holocaust documented very well
• Irving spent years poring over Nazi archives

Hitler

Himmler
The Bible

• God's people (the Jews will be helples in his hands for 31/2 years (Daniel 7:25)
• The Lord will scatter the Jews from one end of the earth to the other (Deuteronomy 28:64)
• Jacob's descendants would again regain control of Israel (Amos 9:14,15)
• Ezekiel predicted when Israel would be re-established (Ezekiel 4:3-6)

One great Website to checkout is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at:
http://www.ushmm.org

Another interesting site with lots of video is:
http://www.holocaustcenter.org

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Matt S.
History of holocaust denial

• Called holocaust revisionism by its supporters
• The first deniers were nazi's themselves
• The KKK did not think the holocaust ever happened

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It didn't happen

• The number of 5-6 million Jews is an exaggeration
• The Photos were fake and footage was misrepresent
• Photos were really from world war 2
• They claim that the gas chambers never happened
• There is not enough rubble where the buildings were torn down

This a Photo that they say is fake.
It did happen

• Numerous reports written by the nazis about the number of jews killed
• Records of jews that were shipped by train to a concentration camp
• Structures of remaining camps
• All the photos and footage
• Many witnesses tell their story
• Orders for tons of various poisons
• Hard to fake

Laws against holocaust denial

• Belgium- fine to 1 year
• Italy- 3-4
• Israel- 1 to 5 years
• Canada does not have a law
• We have the first Amendment

wikipedia Best sorce for holocaust denial


Sebastian E.

They call them selves revisionists

The leaders name is David Irving

Every revisionist has a picture of Hitler in there wallet

They attempted to whitewash camps to make it look like nothing happened

They view the Holocaust as a Jewish communist plot financed by Jewish internatinal bankers

They say that Hitler had nothing to do with the holocaust

They say the Jews tried to kill them selves

They hire execution technoligest's to say the gas chambers were fake.

About 20% of the duobters just do it for the publicity.

go to holocaust denial website