A Rebuttal of Holocaust Revisionism

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Even in today’s modern society of advanced technologies and research methods, there are still people who believe that history has recounted the horrific genocide of over six million European Jews incorrectly. These deniers are known as Holocaust revisionists. Now, these people do not believe that the Holocaust simply did not happen. Instead, they believe that historians have hyperbolized the death toll and that they have morphed the extermination camps into something that they are not. Some even believe that Hitler has been portrayed wrongly as the villain. They think that Hitler was one of the Jewish peoples’ best friends and was a great aid to them. Also, revisionists have conjured up the outrageous idea that the Jewish people were the real antagonists. Revisionists state that the Jews wanted land in the Middle-east, so they seized the opportunity to scream to the world that they were being oppressed and discriminated against. As a result, they received what is now known as Israel for compensation. Now, the previous examples are only a small percentage of the total number of revisionist ideas of how the Holocaust really played out (Lipstadt). Holocaust revisionists strive to dispel the widely accepted idea of the Jewish genocide during World War Two. However, the plethora of proof which historians have uncovered through war trials, film evidence, and written evidence, makes it blatantly obvious that history has been recounted correctly.
There are four arguments that revisionists have conjured up that are completely illogical and absurd. The first is that the extermination camps used to massacre six million European Jews were not really extermination camps at all. According to revisionists, when the Sov...

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...an extremely difficult concept to grasp. However, history must always be remembered correctly. Otherwise, as Geoffrey Keynes stated, “history will repeat itself”.

Works Cited
Butz, Arthur. “A Brief Introduction to Holocaust Revisionism.” Institute for Historical Review.
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“Combating Holocaust Denial: Evidence of the Holocaust Presented at Nuremberg.”
Holocaust Encyclopedia. 10 Jun. 2013. Web. 3 April. 2014.

Lipstadt, Deborah. “Denying the Holocaust”. BBC. 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 10 April. 2014.

“The Holocaust Never Happened”. Youtube. 13 Jul. 2010. Web. 10 April. 2014.

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