Is the Holocaust a Hoax?
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Is the Holocaust a Hoax?We’ve seen the pictures
We’ve read the testimoniesWe KNOW the facts
But Some People Still Aren’t Convinced
By: April-Michelle Thomas
Holocaust Revisionism Headed by “historians” or
“scholars” who deny the Holocaust
They say that the Holocaust is a gross exaggeration and a set of lies
Strong in the U.S.,Canada, Western Europe and the middle east
They think Jews use the Holocaust as an excuse to gain money through sympathy, so they can dominate all industry
The IHR and The CODOH The IHR (Institute to Historical Review) is the
main outlet for Holocaust revisionism Its magazine, the JHR (Journal of Historical
Review) publishes articles that aim to disprove the facts of the Holocaust and persuade others to deny the holocaust as well
The CODOH (Committee on Open Debate on the Holocaust) is the pet project of the IHR.
It was notable in the ‘90s for publishing articles in college newspapers across the country
Revisionist TheoryThe Holocaust Revisionists try to affirm their beliefs for the following reasons:
1. There were no gas chambers used at Auschwitz
2. Six million WERE NOT killed in WWII
3. The Nuremberg Trials were fake and their only purpose was to pacify the Jews
No Gas At Auschwitz Zyklon B was the
pesticide used to gas victims
No cyanide compound found on floors or walls of gas chambers
Gassings at Auschwitz were a technical impossibility
That’s Too Many No net loss of Jewish
lives during WWII They say that morgue
inventory reports were forged
The figures stated on the memorial at Auschwitz once said that 4 million died there, and now it says 1.5
Nuremberg “Sympathy” Trials A series of trials held after
WWI where many third Reich officials were tried
They think that these trials were a “Farce of Justice” for the Jews
Testimony of former SS officer Rudolph Hoss proved falseNo
Wolzek extermination camp ever existed
Lied because him and his family were being threatened by the German government
Revisionist Theory Is this what an extermination camp
should look like?
Who’s Saying All of This?
Holocaust Revisionists:
Are generally affiliated with the IHR/CODOH
Are strongly anti-Semitic Use various forms of
propaganda to promote their ideas
Holocaust DeniersErnst Zundel Publishes and distributes
books, flyers, and video and audio tapes through his website
“Frankly, I don’t think Jews should be so egotistical and think they are the navel of the universe. They’re not. Only a people like them could think themselves so important that the whole world revolves around them. I tend to go with Hitler-- the last thing that he was really worried about was what the Jews thought. To me Jews are just like any other person. That already will hurt them. They will be shrieking “Oy vey, that Ernst Zuendel said Jews are just like normal people”. Well, goddmanit, they are.”
Holocaust DeniersDavid Irving
Arrested in 2006 for speeches in which he denied the holocaust in Austria
Could have faced up to 10 years, but was awarded leniency when he expressed that he had changed his views
Has paid several thousand pounds worth of fines for his outspoken comments
Receives 300 letters a week from other Neo Nazis who support him
Holocaust DeniersThe President of Iran Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has been outspoken on on a number of occasions"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said in December 2005
Holocaust DeniersDavid Cole Is Jewish, but doubts the
reality of the Holocaust Seen as a traitor Made videos of
extermination camps made to make them look like frauds
Physically beaten on several occasions
Received numerous death threats from both Jews and non Jews
Holocaust DeniersHutton Gibson
(Mel Gibson’s Dad)
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the
gas chambers and crematoria at camps like
Auschwitz would not have been capable of
exterminating so many people. "Do you know
what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20
minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the
Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's
why they lost the war."
How Do The Survivor’s Feel? Outraged by the
revisionists and their propaganda
Holocaust denial is a “second death” for victims
Fear that that one day it will be just a “myth”
Stop The MadnessDeborah Lipstadt, Ph. D. At the forefront of the anti-Revisionists
movement Consultant in the construction of the
American Holocaust Museum Book Denying the Holocaust: The
Growing Assault on Truth and Memory scolds revisionists and others who buy into their propaganda
Sued by David Irving because she used some of his writings and speeches in her book
Stop The MadnessMel Mermelstein
Won $50,000 for proving to the IHR that his relatives were gassed at Auschwitz, and $40, 000 more for personal suffering
"This court does take judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944. It is not reasonably subject to dispute. And it is capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to sources of reasonably indisputable accuracy. It is
simply a fact."- Judge Thomas T. Johnson
Holocaust Denial on a Global Scale Many countries have passed laws banning Holocaust denial It is considered a form of hate-speech and Anti-Semitism In some areas the penalty can be up to ten years in prison
AustriaBelgiumBosnia & HerzegovinaCzech RepublicFranceGermanyIsraelLiechtensteinLuxembourgThe NetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerland
Holocaust Denial in the U.S. The U.S. is the base ground for many Holocaust Denial movements
because they have freedom of the press here However, There have been no major instances of prominent
Americans denying the Holocaust It seems that most Americans are outraged by Holocaust denial and
DO NOT buy into revisionist theory, no mater how publicized it becomes
“If one group advertises that the Holocaust never happened, another can buy space to insist that American Blacks were never enslaved. The stakes are high because college newspapers may soon be flooded with ads that present discredited assertions as if they were part of normal historical debate. If the Holocaust is not a fact, then nothing is a fact…”
- David Oshinsky and Michael Curtis of Rutgers University
Holocaust: Fact or Fiction?Decide For Yourself