How Did The Holocaust Exist

Over 9 million people were killed within a span of four years in the 1940’s. One and a half million of these were children and over five thousand Jewish communities were destroyed by the Nazi party. This group was lead by Adolf Hitler, a german politician who became a military leader and dictator of Nazi Germany. Since a young age Hitler had a deep hatred for Jews, and referred to them as a people and compared the activities they took part in “like a maggot in a rotten body.” (Rice, p.19) Although all these victims had to suffer there are many today that still believe that the Holocaust never existed. Many who claim the Holocaust never happened use the same main points to try and support their view. For instance some of the claims that these Holocaust deniers make are that the gas chambers in many camps had no trace of poisonous gases and were not real, that …show more content…
The Gestapo got its reputation through efficiency, brutality, and spread fear through Europe. “We watched the men destroy the whole apartment of five rooms. All the things for which my parents had worked for eighteen long years were destroyed in less than ten minutes.” (Meltzer, 1976, p.53). Many revisionist make claims that there is lack of records and reports to prove the legitimacy of the so called secret police force. They also state that any existing documents were forged by those trying to get money out of the German government. Although there is a lack of direct record claiming that they took place in these crimes there is many indirect documentations suggesting the mass killing of Jews. (Rice, p.76) stated that “due to the lack of evidence from the time passed since the Holocaust it is hard for anyone, whether a historian or scientist, to tell when the first formal steps were taken for the beginning of the Final Solution.” Leader Heinrich