What Is Being Disrespected by Holocaust Denial

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What Is Being Disrespected by Holocaust Denial

Written By : John Hawkins

When people deny that there was a Holocaust, it is extraordinarily disrespectful. That’s because the evidence is absolutely irrefutable and when people say it didn’t happen, they are cruelly denying those that were murdered the simple dignity of having their true story told.

What you are about to read is from the sworn affidavit of “Hermann Graebe, the manager and engineer of a branch office in the Ukraine of a German construction firm.” It was read in a Nuremberg courtroom and it’s about events that occurred on October 5, 1942, at the hands of the Germans (From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, pp. 961-962)

…My foreman and I were directly to the pits. I heard rifle shots in quick succession from behind one of the earth mounds. The people who had got off the trucks — men, women, and children of all ages — had to undress upon the order of an S.S. man, who carried a riding or dog whip. They had to put down their clothes in fixed places, sorted according to shoes, top clothing, and under clothing. I saw a heap of shoes of about 800 to 1,000 pairs, great piles of under-linen and clothing.

Without screaming or weeping these people undressed, stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said farewells and waited for a sign from another S.S. man, who stood near the pit, also with a whip in his hand. During the fifteen minutes that I stood near the pit I heard no complaint or plea for mercy…

An old woman with snow-white hair was holding a one-year-old child in her arms and singing to it and tickling it. The child was cooing with delight. The parents were looking on with tears in their eyes. The father was holding the hand of a boy about 10 years old and speaking to him softly; the boy was fighting his tears. The father pointed to the sky, stroked his head and seemed to explain something to him.

At that moment the S.S. man at the pit shouted something to his comrade. The latter counted off about twenty persons and instructed them to go behind the earth mound…I well remember a girl, slim and with black hair, who, as she passed close to me, pointed to herself and said: “twenty-three years old.”

I walked around the mound and found myself confronted by a tremendous grave. People were closely wedged together and lying on top of each other so that only their heads were visible. Nearly all had blood running over their shoulders from their heads. Some of the people were still moving. Some were lifting their arms and turning their heads to show that they were still alive. The pit was already two-thirds full. I estimated that it contained about a thousand people. I looked for the man who did the shooting. He was an S.S. man, who sat at the edge of the narrow end of the pit, his feet dangling into the pit. He had a tommy gun on his knees and was smoking a cigarette.

The people, completely naked, went down some steps and clambered over the heads of the people lying there to the place to which the S.S. man directed them. They laid down in front of the dead and wounded people; some caressed those who were still alive and spoke to them in a low voice. Then I head a series of shots. I looked into the pit and saw that the bodies were twitching or their heads lying already motionless on top of the bodies that lay beneath them. Blood was running from their necks.

The next batch was approaching already. They went down into the pit. lined themselves up against the previous victims and were shot.

When people say “never again,” this is the kind of mass murder and inhumanity they are talking about.

Bildo

There are no words to describe people who deny the holocaust. They should be ridiculed, cursed, and shunned for the pathetic excuses of humanity that they are.
libliever

Everytime I think of a denier I think of that whack-job over in Iran.

He makes me sick.

I read that the Nazis in camps would kill the babies and children first, then the young adults, then older adults and finally leave the elderly alone so they could witness their progeny perish before their own eyes.

They were cruel, cruel bastards.

The scale is just unimaginable.

Nearly 40% of European Jews were wiped out and nearly 90% orthodox Jews were wiped out.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Holocaust denial absolutely confounds me. I will never understand how anyone can honestly believe, in defiance of literally mountains of evidence, that the Holocaust never happened.
Jack Schite

Thank you. It can't be said often enough.
avi

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-10-06 21:03:38

It's based on resentment of moral authority while simultaneously equating morality with victimhood. Deny the victimization and you deny the moral authority.
BIG

I lost family by the Nazis. I can't recall my grandfather ever talking about his oldest brother, but my dad told me that the letters just stopped and they never heard anything as to their fate. He had a wife and two daughters. I worked with people that had tatoos on their arms. One guy was out going and you would never know the horrors he had seen. But another guy was just a shell of a man. He was nice, but very quiet and was the worst worker I ever saw. But the old man that owned the place would let him work there for as long as he wanted.

It enrages me that people deny the Holocaust took place. It is just a sick hatred for Jews that goes back thousands of years and it will probably never go away. It continues today with the US stopping looking into Iranian brutality while saying nothing about the UN's Goldstone report. It is the silence that kills. We may say never again, but the world is a dangerous place. A vile strain of anti-semetism is running rampant and the international community supports it through their donations to the PLO-Arabs. And they claim to do this in the name of peace?
CoolCzech

Equating Holocaust Denial with a healthy, well-reasoned and well-grounded skepticism of politically-motivated “global warming” hysteria is the ultimate form of Holocaust Denial, the ultimate form of disrespect of Holocaust victims, and a morally base, indecent, and repugnant thing. So of course Al Gore couldn't help but do it… it's in his nature.
Bill_Dalasio

The surefire way to tell that Holocaust deniers know they're lying through their teeth is to actually listen to them. No sooner do they finish telling you how the Holocaust never happened than they begin telling you how the victims deserved it.
CoolCzech

That's quite right, Bill_Delasio: it's striking that the very same people that argue there is no factual basis for the Holocaust also are the ones that wouldn't be particularly upset if there was.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Posted by avi

2009-10-06 22:58:42

No, there's gotta be more to it than that.

I mean, what exactly do they think the ruins of all those concentration camps are? Sound stages? What about all the footage taken by Allied soldiers documenting the liberation of the camps? All faked? And the soldiers who claimed to have been there? All liars to a man?
boatman47

I think you folks are missing something – about Ahmandinejad anyway. I have no idea if he really thinks the Holocaust never happened. What is obvious is that it is politically advantageous for him to say so.

The equation is actually simple. Deny the Holocuast and you undermine the legitimacy of Istael as a nation. Undermine Israel and you undermine the US position in the Mideast. Undermine the US and it opens the door for Iran to become more influential / powerful / respected at the expense of the US. Pure ( if very cynical) international politics.

You may think it cynical and dishonest – and objectively, you are right – but your opinion is not the point. The point is that large numbers of Muslims in the Mideast believe ( or choose to say they believe) Ahmandinejad's statements.

In international politics – as in our own elections – if you can fool enough of the people for long enough you can get what you want.
avi

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-10-07 09:48:52

While I may have been oversimplifying a bit, there really isn't 'more to it'. It's easy to believe that there are complex psychological phenomena at play when you operate on the premise that deniers are normal people who have been hoodwinked and brainwashed into believing the impossible.

But the truth is much more horrific.

Between the ears of a denier is nothing but pure anti-consciousness. Not stupidity, gullibility or insanity but WILLFUL DEVALUATION OF REALITY.

These people simply assign no value on truth or life. They're nihilists whose driving ambition is to gloat over a mountain of corpses (not just those of Jews) while starving to death.

Try picturing Ahmadinejad with slashed lips and crusty clown makeup and it would be easier to understand where he is coming from.
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