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Holocaust Denial

Statement

There is no issue or controversy among scholars about the reality that the holocaust occurred. Between 1941 and 1945 the German Nazis murdered about five to six million Jews and Gypsies, plus another million others. The largest number of murders took place by means of poison gases in six extermination concentration camps (KZs) in present day Poland, of which Auschwitz is the best known. This genocide is among the best documented events in human history because the Germans kept meticulous records of their crime. Documents are stored in various archives of victors and vanquished of the second world war. Eyewitness survivors of Auschwitz and other KZ's are still alive, and some have written memoirs which will endure as evidence of the evil. Even after none of the survivors remain, the facts will never be hidden. Films made of the camps show a ravaged, starving humanity which no fake or fiction film could re-enact.

Pseudo-scholars who deny the holocaust follow a sometimes undeclared agenda. Many of the supporters, believers, and writers of this denial of reality are anti-Jewish (anti-semitic) in their thought, action and attitude. Their wish is to revive the extreme chauvinistic, conservative, fascist politics of the first half of the century. If the holocaust events can be minimized or denied, then Nazi and other racist thought may regain respectability. There are too many people who may follow a racist pied piper again if the warning of the holocaust is forgotten.

Sources

Holocaust Denial and Nazism - Skeptic's Dictionary
Proving the Holocaust: The Refutation of Revisionism & the Restoration of History, Skeptic, Vol. 2, No. 4, Altadena, California, June, 1994. Published by the Skeptics Society, 2761 N. Marengo Ave., Altadena, CA 91001, (818) 794-3119
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Free Press, 1993)
Michael Shermer, "Proving the Holocaust: The Refutation of Revisionism and the Restoral of History", Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 58