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As mentioned before I'm looking into the Holocaust deniers, and Sir mentioned that I look into Richard J. Evans.

According to this historian,


"Like many individual Holocaust deniers, the Institute as a body denied that it was involved in Holocaust denial. It called this a 'smear' which was 'completely at variance with the facts' because 'revisionist scholars' such as Faurisson, Butz 'and bestselling British historian David Irving acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed and otherwise perished during the Second World War as a direct and indirect result of the harsh anti-Jewish policies of Germany and its allies'. But the concession that a relatively small number of Jews were killed was routinely used by Holocaust deniers to distract attention from the far more important fact of their refusal to admit that the figure ran into the millions, and that a large proportion of these victims were systematically murdered by gassing as well as by shooting."


Hmm, interesting.

Another person I'm looking into is Michael Shermer who has written a book called "Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?"
I'd be interested to read this as it's a collection of information about the deniers.
He, along with Alex Grobman, examine all deniers claims and have come up with this:

The holocaust most definitely happened BECAUSE:
1. Written documents—hundreds of thousands of letters, memos, blueprints, orders, bills, speeches, articles, memoirs, and confessions.
2. Eyewitness testimony—accounts from survivors, Jewish Sonderkommandos (who were forced to help load bodies from the gas chambers into the crematoria in exchange for the promise of survival), SS guards, commandants, local townspeople, and even high-ranking Nazis who spoke openly about the mass murder of the Jews
3. Photographs—including official military and press photographs, civilian photographs, secret photographs taken by survivors, aerial photographs, German and Allied film footage, unofficial photographs taken by the German military.
4. The camps themselves—concentration camps, work camps, and extermination camps that still exist in varying degrees of originality and reconstruction
5. Inferential evidence—population demographics, reconstructed from the pre-World War II era; if six million Jews were not killed, what happened to them all?


I'd like to add a number 6, if I may.
Holocaust deniers, how in the name of [insert preferred figure of worship here] could one race of people have DEVISED the holocaust as a HOAX, and MIRACULOUSLY involved EVERY SINGLE JEWISH PERSON within Europe? As previously mentioned, with all the concrete evidence, there is no way IN HELL that one race could have MADE this up.

AUGH.




Right, well.
Some theories that the idio- i mean deniers have come up with are as follows:
Zion related theories
it's a hoax
it's was a ploy for the jewish community to gain sympathy

.. and the list goes on.

I'll be heading to the library soon to read up on some more key deniers and the claims they make.

Until next time..

okay

so i've been trying so much to get this to work, i hope this goes through !

I'm almost certain I'll be looking into the holocaust deniers for my project :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial

:)