If the Holocaust was merely "propaganda," why did the Allies go to such lengths to downplay it? There is no proof that the Holocaust occurred. 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, 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. 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. 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. It is true that Germany had fewer than , Jews when Hitler came to power in 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. 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,, 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,, by the end of alone.
The war in Europe would not end until May, 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,, 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.
The Red Cross never issued such a statistic, nor has it offered any estimate of the number of victims who perished in the camps.
In its bulletin of February 1, , the Red Cross declared that it had never compiled, much less published such statistics. The , figure was actually taken from the Swiss paper, "Die Tat", in This estimate, however, was only a figure for the number of Germans who perished in the concentration camps. No mention of any Red Cross figures, however, was ever made by the paper. Despite the obvious deception, Holocaust deniers continue to peddle it, hoping that few people will actually check the sources.
Nazi policy towards the Jews was emigration, not extermination. From the beginning, the Nazis made no secret of their goal of creating a "Jew-free" Germany and Europe. One of the earliest methods was, indeed, forced emigration. But on November 10, , precise instructions from Berlin to kill the Jews in his area were received by Higher SS and police leader, Friedrich Jeckeln from Berlin, stating, that pursuant to the Fuehrer's order, Jews would no longer be allowed "to emigrate", instead they would be "evacuated".
In the Spring of , 1, mental patients had been transferred from sanitoriums in Eastern Prussia for "evacuation" near the Soldau concentration camp. They were never heard from again. The Nazis attempted to hide their intentions by the use of codewords. Despite the attempts at deception, Victor Brack, one of the chief architects of Hitler's "euthanasia" experiments testified to the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg, that it was no secret among the Nazi hierarchy that "the Jews were to be exterminated.
Many aspects of the glorification of the Wehrmacht in Germany are objectionable, since the army cleared the path for the criminals in the SS and Gestapo, and itself participated on more than one occasion in executions of civilians and POWs. In many countries, despite the laws in force, there is a tendency to turn a blind eye on Holocaust negation and genocide in the name of a misguided concept of freedom of speech. In Poland, the controversial politician and journalist Janusz Korwin Mikke, for instance, voices such opinions.
In essence, this was not only the most tragic of human experiences, but also the most significant—not only in terms of the past, but also of the present and the future. Denying the Holocaust and genocide is also an affront to the victims.
It strips those who died of their right to remembrance; for those who lost loved ones, it is a painful slander—a covert, or indeed an overt accusation that they are telling untruths. Images from www. Their use must not tarnish the good reputation of the victims of KL Auschwitz.
The prosecution and defence appeals are likely to go to Austria's supreme court and are unlikely to be heard until late this year. Austria has Europe's toughest law criminalising denial of the Holocaust.
He was arrested in November last year after returning to Austria to deliver more speeches despite an arrest warrant against him and being barred from the country. In the two speeches he termed the Auschwitz gas chambers a "fairytale" and insisted that Adolf Hitler had protected the Jews of Europe.
The state prosecutor, Michael Klackl, said: "He's not a historian, he's a falsifier of history. Even if he did voice views which were "horrible" or "repellent", he was no danger to Austria. Irving pleaded guilty, but under Austrian law the trial went ahead. Holocaust denial and distortion generally claim that the Holocaust was invented or exaggerated by Jews as part of a plot to advance Jewish interests.
These views perpetuate long-standing antisemitic stereotypes, hateful beliefs that helped lay the groundwork for the Holocaust. Holocaust denial, distortion, and misuse all undermine the truth and our understanding of history. This research project examines Holocaust distortion, its purveyors, and related increases in manifestations of antisemitism in 11 countries where the Holocaust took place. Learn more about Holocaust cartoon contests held in Iran and why they are an insult to the victims and memory of the Holocaust.
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