Hoax; a humorous or malicious deception.
What is a hoax? Most people believe them to be harmless acts of idiocy such as the belief in Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster. Though these are obvious examples, many critics believe the Holocaust was a hoax, but certain documents and medical autopsies prove that the genocide of over 6 million Jews was real.
It is a proven fact that at one time, well over 40,000 concentration camps were in use for the execution and/or malnourishment of well over a third of the Jewish population in Western and Eastern Europe (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Certain individuals are especially ignorant to the topic, some stating how, “simple arithmetic tells us that the Germans would have had to have had hundreds of camps, or else they would have had to exterminate 137 people per hour.(Is the Holocaust a Hoax?)” Furthermore, with just over 6 million Jews being distributed equally over the 40,000 camps, on average each …show more content…
In the case of Anne Frank, the wretched story of her and her family’s capture left the millions of readers speechless. Still, however, a small percentage of the masses believe The Diary of Anne Frank was a complex forgery saying, “The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax. Portions of the diary were written with a ballpoint pen. These pens were not in use at the time Anne Frank lived.(Is the Holocaust a Hoax)” The first ballpoint pen was used in Argentina after World War II in the year 1945. That is the same year Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam to retrieve his leftover belongings of the annex his family inhabited during the two year long game of hide and seek. In the coming years two more renderings of the diary were produced, one being written in part with ballpoint pen, the next being written completely with ballpoint pen with the intent of issuing the
What is a hoax? Most people believe them to be harmless acts of idiocy such as the belief in Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster. Though these are obvious examples, many critics believe the Holocaust was a hoax, but certain documents and medical autopsies prove that the genocide of over 6 million Jews was real.
It is a proven fact that at one time, well over 40,000 concentration camps were in use for the execution and/or malnourishment of well over a third of the Jewish population in Western and Eastern Europe (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Certain individuals are especially ignorant to the topic, some stating how, “simple arithmetic tells us that the Germans would have had to have had hundreds of camps, or else they would have had to exterminate 137 people per hour.(Is the Holocaust a Hoax?)” Furthermore, with just over 6 million Jews being distributed equally over the 40,000 camps, on average each …show more content…
In the case of Anne Frank, the wretched story of her and her family’s capture left the millions of readers speechless. Still, however, a small percentage of the masses believe The Diary of Anne Frank was a complex forgery saying, “The Diary of Anne Frank is a hoax. Portions of the diary were written with a ballpoint pen. These pens were not in use at the time Anne Frank lived.(Is the Holocaust a Hoax)” The first ballpoint pen was used in Argentina after World War II in the year 1945. That is the same year Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam to retrieve his leftover belongings of the annex his family inhabited during the two year long game of hide and seek. In the coming years two more renderings of the diary were produced, one being written in part with ballpoint pen, the next being written completely with ballpoint pen with the intent of issuing the