Originally posted by brimstone735
The holocaust happened. You can't magic that away.
Indeed, the
Final Solution was well-documented on both sides of the war. We
know the Nazi concentration camps were real. We
know the world
wept when they discovered the full extent of what happened to European Jews under the Third Reicht.
But
do we know the full extent?
One of the most sickening things about the Holocaust is that it is now
off limits from historical research — it is
inviolate, we
cannot question it.
And that's
wrong. Particularly when there are
very real questions that need answering... Such as,
how many Jews were actually
exterminated?
One of the truly hair-raising stories that came out of post-war Germany was that the fekking Nazis
couldn't agree on
how many Jews they
had gassed and cremated. Hermann Goering himself, during the official signing of his confession, took the fountain pen, scratched out "two
million," and corrected it to read "three million" before he would sign the document... One of the Allied officers who witnessed this
correction became nauseous. And rightly so.
This suggests that Allied investigators may have seriously
underestimated the number of Jews murdered.
On the other hand, there have been claims by reputable war historians over the decades that six million was far too high a number, and that the true
number of exterminated Jews amounted to three or four million.
And, yes, when I speak of "reputable war historians," I'm talking about David Irving, who served time in an Austrian prison for being an
anti-semite, although his major crime seems to be in
questioning the Holocaust. Irving
never denied the Holocaust, he simply
said the numbers of Jewish dead were vastly inflated.
When he was accused of being an anti-Semite by another author, Irving took the author and her publishing company to court in London... Which was a
mistake on Irving's part. In Britain, the
defendant carries the burden of producing evidence. So, the author who had accused Irving brought
the
victor's history of WWII in Europe as her evidence — hers was a circular and self-affirming argument:
6 million Jews died in WWII
because history says so.
Irving not only lost the case, but the judge sitting on the trial made a point of
chewing David Irving's ass afterward, calling him everything
except a white man. LOL
Of course, Irving's research into finding the
TRUTH of the Holocaust tread on far too many toes, but it
also garnered him a following
among Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups worldwide — which, unfortunately for Irving, has dogged him for decades.
I, for one, do not believe the accusations that David Irving is an anti-Semite or a Neo-Nazi or anything else except one of the most gifted historians
of the 20th Century. I've read his biography, I've followed the news stories, I've read his trial transcripts; and what I see standing out like a
sore thumb is the staunch
bias against Irving from
everyone who unquestioningly (and
mindlessly) defends the six million Jews
account of history.
I think the Holocaust should be a
living memory, open to research and new evidence, even if it refutes the
victor's version of
history.
I've said it before and I'll say it again here: When any chapter of history becomes
inviolate, when we can no longer
ask questions
about it, then that chapter of history is
dead to us.
— Doc Velocity