Method The Holocaust is a world-renowned event. “We know about the Holocaust through a convergence of evidence such as documents, testimonies, facilities, inferential evidence, and photographs” (Farmer, 2014, p. 39). A rising conspiracy throughout the world is the theory of Holocaust Denial. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stated, “Holocaust denial is an attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.” Many revisionists deny the Holocaust events completely; however, there are distinct denial assertions that are made by other revisionists. “Key denial assertions are: that the murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II never occurred, that the Nazis had no official policy or intention to exterminate the Jews, and that the poison gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp never existed” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d.).
Holocaust denial has been argued for decades, “Holocaust Denial first became apparent in France. Fascist writers wrote books about allied war propaganda, saying the evidence regarding hat concentration camps and the …show more content…
Farmer, 2014 stated, “One of the main arguments put forward by the deniers I that the Nazi could not have disposed of millions of corpses without a trace” (p. 38). The answer to that question is simple, they used crematoriums to turn the bodies to ashes. Farmer, 2014 also wrote, “Another challenge thrown up by Holocaust deniers is to question why no great heaps of ashes were found; given that all of the bodies that the conventional wisdom says were incinerated” (p. 38). He later wrote “the answer to that question is easy to come by: the ashes of a thousand bodies could be loaded onto a truck, for example, and dumped into the nearest river” (p. 38). This argument put forth by the deniers was also easily proven to be
Holocaust denial has been argued for decades, “Holocaust Denial first became apparent in France. Fascist writers wrote books about allied war propaganda, saying the evidence regarding hat concentration camps and the …show more content…
Farmer, 2014 stated, “One of the main arguments put forward by the deniers I that the Nazi could not have disposed of millions of corpses without a trace” (p. 38). The answer to that question is simple, they used crematoriums to turn the bodies to ashes. Farmer, 2014 also wrote, “Another challenge thrown up by Holocaust deniers is to question why no great heaps of ashes were found; given that all of the bodies that the conventional wisdom says were incinerated” (p. 38). He later wrote “the answer to that question is easy to come by: the ashes of a thousand bodies could be loaded onto a truck, for example, and dumped into the nearest river” (p. 38). This argument put forth by the deniers was also easily proven to be