Thank you for this Jim. Unfortunately Holocaust denial has been inching its way into mainstream for a long time, beginning right the liberation of the camps! It includes both outright denial, as well as minimalization, whataboutism, nit-picking and distortion of facts, as well as highlighting alternative histories, victimisation of the Nazis, and drawing parallels or including voices of unrelated groups. Other than the obvious connection to the “Protocols...”, I think a lot of it is guilt/shame, because revisiting those times leaves Westerners with only three roles: one-being so hated that people were willing to forgo their humanity to hate you; second-losing your humanity in order to hate someone; and third-facilitating said loss of humanity. None of these is easy to incorporate into one’s self perception, so any solution that will enable the maintenance of the self is preferred and unfortunately, current orthodoxy prefers individual “truth” over historical one. It’s so much cozier.
I second the field trip idea. Watching “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” would be good use of class time as well. I remember my dad watching a 4 part movie simply entitled “Holocaust”, and I sat down and watched with him. I was about 15. What I find most disturbing is how many prominent Jews now share this denialism.
Have you ever read the book Hellstorm by Thomas Goodrich? Or watched the long and informative documentary "Europa: The Last Battle" (available on Bitchute)? You'll see that a lot of evidence points in the direction that the Allies fabricated the holocaust, and that the photos of victims were from prison camps for german people after the destruction of Berlin!
Excellent and very timely, Jim!
Thank you for this Jim. Unfortunately Holocaust denial has been inching its way into mainstream for a long time, beginning right the liberation of the camps! It includes both outright denial, as well as minimalization, whataboutism, nit-picking and distortion of facts, as well as highlighting alternative histories, victimisation of the Nazis, and drawing parallels or including voices of unrelated groups. Other than the obvious connection to the “Protocols...”, I think a lot of it is guilt/shame, because revisiting those times leaves Westerners with only three roles: one-being so hated that people were willing to forgo their humanity to hate you; second-losing your humanity in order to hate someone; and third-facilitating said loss of humanity. None of these is easy to incorporate into one’s self perception, so any solution that will enable the maintenance of the self is preferred and unfortunately, current orthodoxy prefers individual “truth” over historical one. It’s so much cozier.
Well they don’t teach much in schools these days. Literacy is non existent.
I second the field trip idea. Watching “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” would be good use of class time as well. I remember my dad watching a 4 part movie simply entitled “Holocaust”, and I sat down and watched with him. I was about 15. What I find most disturbing is how many prominent Jews now share this denialism.
Thank you, Jim, for posing so powerfully
the essential question: How is this possible?
Foundational education is not happening for our young.
Neither at home, nor at school.
They are not being taught the core elements of freedom.
How can they understand how much they are needed right now
to stand up and defend and vote for democracy in America
if they don't know the horrendous human suffering
that a fascist takeover would cause all of us?
Denial of the Holocaust blinds them to the real and present danger.
All of us writers must reach out to the young.
Teach, inspire, respect, educate them--build the missing foundation.
Truth fears no investigation. And never needs laws to enforce it
Have you ever read the book Hellstorm by Thomas Goodrich? Or watched the long and informative documentary "Europa: The Last Battle" (available on Bitchute)? You'll see that a lot of evidence points in the direction that the Allies fabricated the holocaust, and that the photos of victims were from prison camps for german people after the destruction of Berlin!