Of Course, the Holocaust Happened. What Are You, Stupid?

Covering this whole topic reminds me of when I wrote an article called “Why Can’t Everything Be Free? ” and someone said something to me like, “Are we so far gone that this needs to be explained to people?” The answer is, “Yes, we are indeed.” This topic is sort of like that.

Claiming the Holocaust didn’t happen is just as ignorant as claiming the Earth is flat, we didn’t go to the moon, or that planes weren’t flown into the WTC on 9/11. Of course, in the modern world, there are small but significant groups of people who believe those things. All of those very, very dumb things.

Given the sort of people that read Culturcidal, I have to believe almost all of you know the truth already. But even though that’s the case, since this belief is getting MORE popular among young Americans, it’s good for you to know some of the facts, so you can blow holes in it when you hear it.

Incidentally, there are probably more Americans who don’t believe the Holocaust happened than you think. So many that it makes me wonder if I’ll be spending my 100^th birthday trying to convince people that 9/11 really happened:

Granted, you could make some fair objections to the wording on the 2^nd question or the methodology of any poll, but there’s still unquestionably a significant percentage of the population, particularly among younger Americans, who believe the Holocaust never occurred.

This is certainly not because of any new research that came out or genuine concern about historical accuracy (When was the last time you heard someone questioning how many people died in WW2 or what the battlefield conditions were REALLY LIKE during D-Day?).

To the contrary, the people actively pushing Holocaust denial almost inevitably overlap with the exact same people that obsessively rant about Jews. Why is this? Mainly because these people hate Jews and want to spread that without having people correctly point out what the kind of lies they’re telling can lead to down the road.

So, why is Holocaust denial so incredibly ridiculous that it really shouldn’t even need to be addressed?

Well, as a starting point, there’s no shortage of evidence that the Jews (and others) were exterminated by the Germans.

In fact, there are lots of existing, easy-to-access interviews with survivors of those concentration camps who talk about the deaths that occurred all around them:

Incidentally, you can also hear WW2 soldiers talk about it:

We could go on and on and on and on with this. There are still living people who were in the concentration camps and there are an enormous number books and interviews from survivors that are not hard to find.

You can even look at the bodies and piles of clothes left from the dead if you’re so inclined:

So, we have stories from the victims AND that is backed up by the soldiers that liberated them. But, what about the perpetrators?

Does Germany deny that the Holocaust happened?

No, not at all.

The official position of the German state is that the Holocaust occurred, roughly 6 million people died, and they feel so strongly about it that you can quite literally GO TO JAIL FOR 5 YEARS for Holocaust denial there. They have a national Holocaust memorial. They have several significant Holocaust museums. You can even go to the camps yourself.

Incidentally, do you know where that figure of 6 million dead initially came from? From German records and testimony in the Nuremberg trials that occurred right after the war. This is from the actual transcript of the trial:

Adolf Eichmann, the sinister figure who had charge of the extermination program, has estimated that the anti-Jewish activities resulted in the killing of 6 million Jews. Of these, 4 million were killed in extermination institutions, and 2 million were killed by Einsatzgruppen, mobile units of the Security Police and SD, which pursued Jews in the ghettos and in their homes and slaughtered them by gas wagons, by mass shooting in antitank ditches, and by every device which Nazi ingenuity could conceive. So thorough and uncompromising was this program that the Jews of Europe as a race no longer exist, thus fulfilling the diabolical “prophecy” of Adolf Hitler at the beginning of the war.

It’s worth noting that some of these camps, like Treblinka, weren’t even “work camps” per se. They were SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to kill people who were shipped there – and they were just part of the program. People were deliberately starved to death, shot to death, worked to death, and gassed. Since this happened in the forties, not say 1,000 years ago, there’s so much visual evidence, correspondence, trial testimony, and witness accounts verifying this happened that you could probably spend 40 hours per week perusing it for the next five years without coming close to getting done with it.

Now, if there was some strong, coherent argument that the Holocaust didn’t happen or was heavily exaggerated, I’d be happy to go point-by-point and dismantle it, but it doesn’t exist. Like the flat Earth theory, it’s all selective quotes, conspiratorial thinking, and unprovable assertions contradicted by endless evidence to the contrary.

Where that ultimately leaves us is with victims who say it happened, contemporary accounts from soldiers & journalists that say it happened, the people who did it saying it happened, and massive amounts of evidence from the Nuremberg trials showing it happened.

The only counter to that is, “Nah, that didn’t happen like they say it did” that comes from anti-Semitic dum-dums online that no smart person would trust to babysit their kids, much less teach them about history.

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