Quote Originally Posted by Rajagra View Post
P.P.P.S. Isn't it interesting how in Germany it is illegal to suggest that the Holocaust was faked? Ask yourself this: wouldn't Hitler have been proud of such a law?
That's an interesting point and it should be clarified that the issue is not faking the holocaust but saying anything that tends to diminish it. There are people in jail as we speak who are only guilty of critical scholarship. For example, Ernst Zündel was imprisoned because he published a book saying that less than 6 million Jews were killed in the concentration camps, even though this is officially acknowledged. A sign a Auschwitz that used to say that 4 million Jews were killed there was quietly changed to a lower number (1.5 million, I think). Assuming for the sake of argument that only 5 million were killed instead of 6, isn't that already horrible enough? Others have been imprisoned because they said that there is no evidence that there were gas chambers and that the heaps of bodies were victims of disease. Why should it be a crime to say that? Shouldn't the test of whether or not one should be allowed to say something be whether it is true or not? Not whether it tends to annoy a certain group of people?

These people are called "Holocaust Deniers," which, like antisemite and self-hating Jew is a word coined to smear people. In reality, there isn't anyone who denies the holocaust. Everyone admits that the Nazis hated the Jews. Everyone agrees that they were rounded up and put into concentration camps and that an awful lot of people died. Historians just want to clarify how many people died and how. Why should that be a crime?

By the way, it isn't a crime in just Germany but also Austria, Canada, Italy and, I think, France and some other countries.