Based on how the deniers support their argument, one can deduce that they ought to be non-believers of God. Since there are no evidence that suggest God’s existence and religious leaders could have falsely created the belief for the purpose of power and status in society. This is a way of identifying the type of people who are anti-semitic, by applying there logic to other perspectives on life. If one would to be anti-semitic but believe in God, then there argument would have contradictions based the basis that makes them deny the Holocaust. It can be viewed that the motivation for Holocaust denial is to restore the Nazis’ image, so that the ideology of national socialism can be more acceptable. David Irving is a Holocaust denier, who strongly believes that the Holocaust is all made up. He was discredited as an historian and was accused for manipulating historical evidence. In one of his book, Hitler’s War, he illustrates Hitler as …show more content…
Without proper ventilation system, the crematoria would not be able to operate.” (Lipstadt, 4) Notice that the denier’s claims are an absolute worst case epidemiological scenario and is all pseudoscience. They denied all physical evidence that proves the existence of the Holocaust but request that until they see logical reasoning to how this was possible, then they will reconsider. Obviously, we can go back in time and show them as the event is happening, and yet we can conclude that they will still ignore it. Deniers claimed that in order for the gas chambers to operate, the establishment need to have the proper ventilation system. The deniers also argue that the infrastructure ought to be constructed in a particular way. We can immediately see that the deniers are going to try to exhaust all possible ways that they feel they need to prove the Holocaust took
How could one dieny that the mass murder of six million jews never happened? These revisionist, or deniers, like to believe that it never did. Even with the witnesses, photos, buildings and other artifacts left behind, they still believe that the Holocaust is a hoax. The Holocaust deniers are wrong because there are people who have survived that wrote books, there is proof that Jews were being killed, and other evidence and artifacts have been found.
In order to properly understand some of the more prevalent ideas that the Holocaust was allowed to happen, it is important to look at the different churches and the historical anti-semitic feelings among these churches. In Germany, around the time of the Holocaust, there were two dominant churches; the German Evangelical Church, and the Catholic Church. The German Evangelical Church always prided itself as...
Gottfried, Ted. Deniers of the Holocaust: who they are, what they do, and why they do it. Brookfield , Connecticut : Twenty-First Century Books, 2001. Print.
Before it can be understood why the claims of these people are so outrageous, the two sides to the issue of the occurrence of the Holocaust must be explained. The majority of people believe that it did occur and use pictures, memoirs, letters, and other primary sources from the time to prove its existence. On the other hand, there is the smaller community of people who claim that there was no Holocaust. These are radical groups and self-described “revisionists. Those denying the event say that concentration camps were built after World War II was over as propaganda, and that the death toll numbers were simply made up. In their opi...
...at it never happened. I am clearly not a Holocaust survivor but the Holocaust did happen because there is so much stuff and artifacts that are around that it would be hard to believe that the Holocaust never happened. Holocaust deniers just do not take the time to listen or visit camps and do not have an open mind about it so they are not willing to learn about it. Holocaust deniers are wrong because there is too much evidence, there are Holocaust survivors, and leftover concentration camps.
“Jews, listen to me! I see fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace,” Madame Schachter imagined fire, the fire that would burn millions of Jews, gays, and disabled people. Many people died in crematory ovens during the Holocaust. The people who are responsible for the Holocaust are the minor Nazi soldiers because they didn’t question decisions, they ultimately pulled the trigger, and they separated families.
There are people that call themselves deniers. These individuals claim to see no evidence that the Holocaust took place. The deniers feel many of the details of the Holocaust have been altered to make it look like it existed. These people say that pictures have been altered and that the Holocaust was created to make a large
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Gottfried, Ted, and Stephen Alcorn. Deniers of the Holocaust: Who They Are, What They Do, Why They Do It. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century, 2001. Print.
Throughout Denial, Lipstadt and her legal team are shown collecting evidence and talking about why even though there was no photographic proof of the Holocaust, it happened. It was interesting to see her opponent, David Irving, struggle to combat her facts with his idea of reality. One exceptional example of this is when Rampton talks about the gassing chambers
However it does seem unreasonable to make such a statement in an advertisement, even if the individual is an anti-semist or neo-Nazi, since it was proved at the conclusion of the war that gas chambers did physically exist. Therefore, if a building for the sole purpose of carrying out the bringing death onto individuals by primarily depriving them form the intake of oxygen, then it could be concretely evident that these so called “chambers” did in fact carry out their purpose. It is also likely that these formats of massive killing of could have been to aid in the Nazis’ effort to exterminate the existence of Jews and other minorities. This same argument would ensue until the ending of the show’s first segment as Mr. Donahue continuously pursued Mr. Smith’s take on the Holocaust, while Bradley Smith dodged several questions by repeatedly mentioning, what he deemed to be, the inexplicably unjust portrayal of the Holocaust’s history and gas chambers in the United States’ Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. It was not until the beginning of the second segment that Mr.
Lazar and Hirsch conducted an analysis of what the population considers the reasons of the Holocaust denial through Yahoo Q&A. The most discussed question about the holocaust was why people believe it did not happen. Conspiracy theories are based on four assertions: the first one claims historians exaggerate the Jews suffering, the second one claims death camps were not enough to kill all the victims, the third one claims the Nazi regime had no intention of genocide for the Jews, and the last
It is hard to grasp the number of lives lost during the Holocaust. How someone could have so much hatred towards one group of people. Or how so many people could set back and watch something like this take place without protest. To begin to understand how a tragedy like the Holocaust could have took place without intervention we need to understand antisemitism.
Evaluating the Arguments for God's Existence No one can prove to anyone the existence of God, as in a mathematical proof. In my opinion the theory of reason is too limited to know anything beyond human experiences. Throughout history many rational arguments have been put forward but if you don’t believe in God, you never will.
One of the oldest dilemmas in philosophy has always been about the existence of god. Philosophers have always tried to make an argument for or against the existence of god, always searching and trying to find a answer that makes logical sense. The argument that soon came was, if God is all-powerful and all-good, it would have created a universe in the same way it created heaven: with free will for all, no suffering and no evil. But evil and suffering exist. Therefore God does not exist, he is not omnipotent, omnibenevolent, nor omniscient. A philosopher by the name of John Hick attempted to answer these questions by saying that a all powerful god does exist. He believed that god allowed evil in the world to create free-will. For Hick, God is ultimately responsible for pain and suffering, but such things are necessarily bad.