jlf1961 -> RE: is holacaust denial antisemitic? (1/27/2013 5:40:26 PM)
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And the Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD were entertainment troops to throw the Jewish people in conquered territories parties, with cake and ice cream. Jlf, there were seven major death camps, six of which were inside Poland. and they accounted for the extermination of 3.5 million people, mostly Jews. There were also smaller, satellite camps. The Einsatzgruppen, as you know followed the German army into Russia, Ukraine, Lituania, Romania, etc and were responsible for a difficult to estimate number of deaths. The small Jewish villages (the shtetls) were basically wiped off the face of the earth. Dickering whether the death toll was 4 million or 6 million is engaging in the worst sort of obscenity. So, to answer your OP, is holacaust denial antisemitic . . . you betcha! We are quite good at forgetting genocides. It is an interesting facility of the human mind, cus wtf, they really have nothing to do with our daily individual lives, and denying seems to serve some political or perverse conspiratorial purpose. The number of humans killed en mass just in the 20th C boggles the mind. Maybe we just can't handle the truth, to borrow a movie phrase. When I was a kid, my father was stationed in West Germany, one summer he took us to the camps that we could see in that part of the country. As an adult after the fall of the Berlin wall I toured 3 more. The camps in west Germany were primarily work camps, not death camps. As for the Einsatzgruppen, there were a few SS enlisted men that allegedly deserted, and made it to out of mainland Europe, unofficially they were debriefed, officially they were thrown in a POW camp. In all my research I have found nothing to verify that. However, Air Recon photos of the camps were available to the Allies as early as 1942.
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