Holocaust Denial: One Of The Holocaust

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Holocaust Denial The Holocaust is one of the worst events that has occurred in history where over 6 million jewish people were brutally murdered. There are many facts and first hand accounts of what took place during those times. Many diaries were kept and pictures taken that capture the horrific events that took place. There are others accounts though that claim the Holocaust never happened and that no one died. 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 …show more content…

These camps were more than relocation camps. People died at these camps under extreme work conditions and being gassed. Survivors are proof that Jews were gassed and worked to death. Jews kept diaries and letters explaining the harsh conditions they were put under by the Nazis. Some survivors had family members or close friends that were gassed in the chambers. Deniers say that they died of natural causes or due to illnesses caused by being moved from their homeland. These illnesses were not just caused by being moved, but were also caused by poor living conditions they were kept in. Auschwitz was capable of holding 150,000 prisoners at a time, but was severely overpopulated with about 230,000 prisoners at once. People slept in feces and even sometimes dead bodies (Holocaust …show more content…

Hitler had a main goal of claiming territory in Europe. The Nazis forcefully took land that was not theirs and killed many people in the process, as well as capturing many Jews. The Germans were already bad people before the mass murdering of so many people occurred. America, Britain, and the other countries had already demonized the Nazis for their crimes of dictatorship and falsely claiming countries that were not theirs. For the deniers to say that the Holocaust is the reason that Germans were demonized is ignorant, because they have not thought about the other terrible things that Germany had done prior to the genocide of 6 million Jewish people (Holocaust

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