Why do people still deny the Holocaust ever happened

[Rimmer]

 

Why do people still deny the Holocaust ever happened despite overwhelming documented evidence to support it?

 

I am thinking of documented evidence such as:

Survivor Testimonies: Firsthand accounts from millions of survivors.

Nazi Documents: Extensive records kept by the Nazis themselves, including orders, reports, and photographs.

Eyewitness Testimonies: Accounts from Allied soldiers, journalists, and others who liberated concentration camps.

Physical Evidence: The remains of concentration camps, gas chambers, and mass graves.

Trials: Legal proceedings like the Nuremberg Trials documented and validated the Holocaust through meticulous examination of evidence.

 

Could it be any or all of the following?

Anti-Semitism: motivated by deep-seated anti-Semitic beliefs. Denying the Holocaust is a way to delegitimize Jewish suffering and undermine Jewish communities.

Far-right extremism: Holocaust denial is often linked to neo-Nazi or other far-right ideologies that glorify Hitler and seek to rewrite history to fit their agenda.

 

Conspiracy

Deniers often rely on conspiracy theories, claiming the Holocaust was fabricated or exaggerated by Jews or other groups to gain sympathy or political power,   leading many to dismiss even well-documented events as "propaganda."

Deniers often claim that the Holocaust did not occur and that there was no systematic attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people.

 

Ignorance and Lack of Education

Some deniers may simply lack education about the Holocaust or have been exposed to other distorted versions of history.

 

Exaggeration of Numbers

Argue that the number of Jewish deaths has been greatly exaggerated and that the actual number was much smaller.

 

Gas Chambers Denial

Some claim that the gas chambers at extermination camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau were not used for mass murder, suggesting instead that they were merely used for delousing or other non-lethal purposes.

 

Fabrication and Forgery Theories

Deniers allege that evidence of the Holocaust, including survivor testimonies, Nazi documents, and photographs, were fabricated or forged as part of a conspiracy to promote Jewish interests.

 

Misinterpretation of Intent

Some argue that the Nazis did not intend to exterminate the Jews, but rather to deport them, and that the deaths were simply the result of disease, starvation, or other wartime conditions.

 

Challenging Survivor Testimonies

Deniers often claim that survivor accounts are unreliable or exaggerated, questioning the credibility and motives of those who provide firsthand testimony of the events.

 

It happened and if we forget it happened we are at risk of it happening again.

 

[CharlieH]

On this day of remembrance, let us renew our pledge to never forget. Let us commit ourselves to honouring the memory of the victims by standing firm against all forms of hate and intolerance, by teaching the truths of the Holocaust, and by fostering a world in which respect, dignity, and love are upheld.

The lessons of the Holocaust must never be allowed to fade into the past—they are a call to action for us all.

[Bkk Brian]

One of the scum who still does deny it:

 

The best known Holocaust denier in the UK is David Irving.

Despite not being trained as a historian, he has written numerous books about the history of the Second World War in which he expresses his pro-Nazi sympathies. He denies that the nazi Germans murdered Jews in gas chambers, maintains close ties with the IHR, and testified in Zundel’s defense. He has been fined in Germany for publicly denying the Holocaust and sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment in Austria.

https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/holocaust-denial/deniers-in-different-countries/