Holocaust Denial

Why are so many people in denial that the Holocaust actually took place? Why are people trying to justifying a horrible time that they didn’t even witness? Why isn’t there the same amount of uproar with other genocides that are taking place today? Whenever I think about those who feel that the Holocaust didn’t really exist or those who try to, in a way, defend “the Nazi regime's systematic mass murder,” it makes me wonder why there is much interest in this particular event in our history?

It is sad to think that this is “one of the most notable anti-Semitic propaganda movements to develop over the past two decades.” In the website I found it said that a lot of the advertising for non-Holocaust believers has shown up in campus publications. While I think it is great for students to be able to write about what they strongly believe in, I don’t think it is acceptable for students’ writings to hinder the lives of other students at the school. Sadly enough, with editorials about the Holocaust not existing and all of the anti-Semitic feelings that are provoked by these articles, does just that. In the website I found it says that this movement has “generated acrimony and has frequently caused friction between Jewish and non-Jewish students.” It’s sad to think that this friction between Jewish and non-Jewish people ended long ago, but now it seems that this hatred is being revisited in present times.

Another part of the Holocaust Denial which I don’t fully understand is that some feel it didn’t occur “because there is no single ‘Master Plan’ for Jewish annihilation.” Just because we don’t have evidence that there was a “Master Plan” for the Columbine Shooting doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. And, just because we don’t know of any “Master Plan” doesn’t mean that one did not exist. I’m sure that if the Nazis had a “Master Plan” for the killing of millions of Jews they wouldn’t just make the information public knowledge.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/denial.html