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reply posted on 2-5-2009 @ 02:47 AM by mmiichael
Originally posted by Mulberry
I did history at university and we as historians were not allowed to question if it happen at all, pretty amazing if the main methodology of historical research is to ask the question why and when and if. People were frightened and most where bending over backwards to prove how they believed in it


I have a reading list for my holocaust course most if all were either Jewish or pro Jewish, hardly objective is it, no debate all closed down.


However the killer is this, the evidence for the holocuast is so minute, in that it comes from thousands of different sources where one has to speak and read a mired of languages, from Russian to Serbo Croat etc, it means that all the holocaust research is open to massive interpretation because of the disparate nature of the so called evidence, there is no definitive proof in a single sense that it actually happened, but holocaust historians get their view from all these disparate sources, thats why they never play the number game because there is lot of holes in this, thats why they want to make it a crime to deny the holocaust, because it is so easy to disprove in a free historical research without political or social interference . This is from the words of my course tutor and there was shock and silence in the room. I knew this of course, i was questioning as a historian, i was not prepared to accept spoon fed what some idiot told me..




I won't even ask where you got your education.

Despite the German attempts to destroy indictable war crime documentation as WWII ended, despite the embarrassed silence of millions throughout Eastern Europe, and despite attempts by anti-Semites worldwide to minimize or dismiss the Holocaust as a Jewish exaggeration or fabrication - it happened and there is no possible question of it or it's scale.

More and more is being unearthed, literally, every year. Red Cross and Russian archives, closed to the public for decades, new mass grave sites, and many underutilized sources have become increasingly available to historians.

Anyone traveling anywhere from Germany outward to countries like Poland, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, etc can talk to people in towns where they either witnessed or were told by relatives of mass murders by organized town mobs given bullets by the Nazis with instructions to use one each to put to the head of every Jew in the vicinity.

Open bonfires of Jewish corpses and huge mass graves were monthly occurrences. The evidence is still being dug up by researchers.

I studied Russian in University, and have spoken with dozens of these people
when a mutual language exchange was possible. The shame has cast a pall on Eastern Europe for well over half a century. A collective hatred where ordinary farmers and townspeople participated in collective lynch mob responsible for an estimated murder of maybe a million Jewish fellow citizens.

The fact that such a disgraceful revisionist history as Holocaust Denial can be accepted by so many now, particularly ones claiming advanced education, forebodes poorly for our culture.


Mike



reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 10:28 PM by emeraldzeus
reply to post by sensfan



I can say honestly, I wouldn't be an American if it weren't for the Holocaust. In fact, I probably would never have been born. My great grandparents fled here just before Hitler invaded, and some of our family refused to leave and were never heard from again.

I would encourage anyone who doesn't believe, to go to Russia and visit the old Jews living in poverty, still displaced from the war. Their stories will tear your heart out, and even at their age, they still cry talking about how as children, they witnessed their entire families executed in front of them.

Just the amount of bitterness still present in some (not all) Jewish communities, should be enough to tell those who don't believe, that something horrid happened on a massive scale. I've met quite a few of them personally. The United States owes much of it's Jewish, Russian and Polish population to the Holocaust, and if you've ever lived in Florida where there's a large Jewish community, you would know what I'm talking about. The older Jews are still extremely protective of their own and shut off from non-Jews because of the Holocaust. I've also witnessed and experienced this for myself on several occassions.


reply posted on 7-5-2009 @ 11:19 PM by amazing
reply to post by OhZone



I can't believe I'm reading this? Are you serious? I guess the question is: Do you really think that the Nazi's didn't kill millions of Jews on purpose? Do you believe that there were no concentration camps? Do you believe that there were no ovens for people or gas chambers? Or are you just arguing the ammount of people that actually died?


reply posted on 8-5-2009 @ 01:00 AM by seagull
reply to post by dreaken1993



Not everyone is labled as such for the mere act of questioning the numbers... There are many researchers who make their academic careers by researching that very thing. What gets some labled, correctly I might add, is the reason behind the questioning of the numbers.

"The evil Jews made up the numbers of killed, most of the supposed killed are living in Brooklyn" That's a denier, and should be labled as such...

"The numbers of killed may be wrong because this number got added to the total by mistake in 1950, and wasn't caught 'til now." That's legitimate research, and should be labled as such.

Ask yourself, why are you questioning the numbers?

Holocaust denial is, most unfortunately, a real growth industry these days...It started shortly, within months, after the fall of Hitler's thousand year Reich, and continues on today, as an attempt to rehabilitate Hitler. Most of the blame was layed on his henchmen/cronies. Since then it's transformed itself into virulent hatred of Jews, and not coincidently, Israel. Though the rehabilitation aspect is still somewhat in evidence.

Again, ask yourself this, what's your reason for questioning?



reply posted on 8-5-2009 @ 11:03 PM by seagull
reply to post by dreaken1993




no one is denying it or anything like that


Unfortunately, there are many deniers who do precisely that...not all of them, just the more rabid amongst them. There is a book, it's an older one, but still relevant to this conversation; it's called Denying the Holocaust: The growing assault on Truth and Memory. It was written by Deborah Lipstadt. In it she discusses the phenomanon of Holocaust denial. It'll give you a very good overview, and an insight into these people. I urge you, and others to read it. As I said, it's a bit dated, 1994 is when it came out; but no less relevant for that. I'm sure Amazon has it...

[edit on 5/8/2009 by seagull]


reply posted on 12-5-2009 @ 03:03 AM by Exuberant1
reply to post by mmiichael



No,

I want you to back up the claim you just made with some corroborative evidence.

Should that evidence exist in abundance; you should have no difficulty in locating, citing and posting it here to substantiate your claim.

On ATS we have a higher standards than most sites, I'm sure you know that by now.

If you don't post corroboration in your reply to this post then I will assume you don't have any, and are here to issue provocations to the members.


[edit on 12-5-2009 by Exuberant1]
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