It was pretty easy to jump on the band wagon and become a holocaust denier, because it seemed so obvious. Not to mention them darned Jews, right? But something never sat right with me, something along the lines of if it was so obvious why are deniers a minority.
So I did a bunch of research independent of any forums, because let's face it any one on a forum already has an axe to grind.
In the end I really did have to agree that:
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Deniers cherrypick. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of war related documentation there is available and deniers only ever seem to use the few bits that suit their purpose, and then they beat that like a kettle drum.
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Overwhelming evidence about the gas chambers NOT being gas chambers turned out to not be so overwhelming afterall. Again deniers seem to only use evidence or methodology that suited their objectives.
So either the Jewish conspiracy is so huge and well funded that they are able to perpetuate a hoax of a scale grander than I can even imagine. Or there actually is a lot of truth there. I do remain open to any new information on or approaches to the subject however.
Anyhow, am I the only one?
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Skyrock ago
People generally go through three phases in understanding history:
(1) the simplified school version, i.e. "The Nazis have put Jews into death camps and gassed them."
(2) the edgelord version that shines light on things that the highly simplified school curriculum didn't touch, but in order to be contrarian rather than to get the whole picture, i.e. "There were also labour camps whose inhabitants died through supply shortages, not industrial murder, and there were even some leisurely camps like Theresienstadt, and the holocaust didn't happen."
(3) the enlightened whole picture, i.e. "Not all camps were death camps, some even were relatively pleasant, and not all Jews dying in camps died through the Holocaust - but yes, the nazis gassed 6 millions."
Most people only reach (1), never question it and view it as an annoying hurdle they need to take for a good grade, without ever developing a real interest into the subject. People who reach stage (2) are like those annoying teenagers who think that they are woke, that they have all figured it out and that the sheeple need to wake up. People who reach stage (3) are like the based, weary and disillusioned dads who have figured out that things aren't easy and obvious as they thought in their edgy teenage years, and that there is a reason why things are the way they are.
Congratulations for reaching Stage 3, stay critical and question everything. There are many other areas of your knowledge where you have never made it past stage 1 or stage 2. I know because everyone does, including me.
benjitsu ago
Is stage 4 when you realize that the 6 million number is far older than WW2 and that there weren't even that many documented jews available to wipe out had they wanted to