Do you think that the Holocaust actually happened?

Question

Do you think that it indeed did happen? Some believe that it is a hoax, some on the contrary. There is a ton of proof but, some deny it with facts right back at you. Do you believe in the pictures, documentaries, books, and media? What makes you lean a certain way. I am not asking for you to persuade me but, I want to know your opinions. I believe that it did in fact happen. How about you?

Answer 1

Yes, Hitler, ever the good catholic boy, did just what the Church demanded.

Answer 2

Well, regarding what "some people believe".



IMO, hearing or reading what "some people believe" is one of the seminal proofs that human ignorance permeates the planet.



Even science has glomned onto ideas and positions that were proved ridiculous only a few years after the idea was endorsed by the general scientific community.



If scientists are going to indulge themselves in bad science how can we expect the average, poorly educated guy in the street to do any better.



I remember a nation-wide geography test given college students within the last 10 years.

25% of one well known university could not answer the question as to whether or not Nicaragua and Nigeria were border countries.



Remember

the 'Flat Earth Society'?

people who thought the Moon Landing was filmed at area 51?

Remember various politicians saying wonderful things to the potential voters?

remember the voters who actually believe what politicians say?

remember religious sooth-sayers quoting biblical figures as if there were some accurate record of such sayings?



People have the right to believe...anything they please...no matter how rediculous it may be. Unfortunately, far too many people are quite satisfied with doing just that.



I am sad to say that I support this right because it goes to the issue of freedom on thought.



Freedom of thought is to be preserved at all costs, even if we have to listed to blowhards waxing ad infinitum on subjects they know little or nothing about.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe it happened. How else do you explain the survivors who for decades lived with the horrible knowledge of what men can do to each other? Am I to believe that everything about the Holocaust is hoax and propaganda? That certain people did not exist (Anne Frank and her family)? That photos were staged to depict the horrors, but that they never happened. That the gas chambers and concentration camps, some which still exist as a testament to what happened, really did not exist and were erected to satisfy the plot of some conspiratoral faction? Please... the people who deny this horror... do they believe also that the trans-Atlantic slave trade never happened and that slavery never existed. We can only learn from history, people, if we are true and analytical with all information we are given. Not everything is true, but there are some things that are denied that simply can not be if all things are looked at and judged accordingly.

Answer 4

Yes, absolutely. They just recently opened a Holocaust Museum, which Holocaust survivers have been waiting over 60 years for. It has some pretty graphic descriptions from the Nazi's about the concentration camps.



I think it is human nature to want to deny it. No one wants to believe that anyone is capable of such horror. I've included some links about Social Psychology, which talk about some theories about Good People who Do Terrible Things!

Answer 5

Yes I beleive it happened. My grandma who recently passed away had her numbers tattoo still on her arm. Those that deny it happened have no facts to give.

Also consider this. If it was a hoax,did they have to pay all those actors to be starved to death,shot,gassed,torn from their families? What did their kids get for the same treatment? A candy bar?

Yes it really happened and If people say that didn't happen then we should say Hiroshima didn't happen and the entire war didn't happen. Lets While were taking away from the Jews history lets be fair and take from the black man(and womans) history and say slavery was a hoax. (It happened also).

So yes I believe it did happen.

Answer 6

Of course it actually happened. There can be no doubt that it actually happened, and those who quote so-called "facts" which deny the Holocaust are either deluded or lying through their teeth.



The Nazi era is one of the most minutely documented periods of time in all history. The Germans are extremely fastidious regarding record-keeping, and have repeatedly admitted that the Holocaust took place and that their Nazi government was responsible for carrying it out.



They recently opened their official records of that era to public scrutiny which should quiet those who deny the Holocaust, though those who refuse to believe it happened will claim the millions of pages of documents are all fake.

Answer 7

I don't believe it happened, I KNOW it happened, the holocuast is not a theory yet to be proved by some branch of science it is what happened. My grandmother lived in Germany during the 2nd world war and witnessed many of the depraved horrid acts towards the Jews during the war, but she certainly isn't the only one, there are countless survivors with first hand accounts, not 2 or three rednecks and a weather balloon but people who witnessed possibly the most vile mistreatment of man within their lifetime.

Answer 8

We've been lied to. Many people died in WWII, but not in the way we were told. The original 6 million Jews that were allegedly executed has been drastically reduce to around 2 million. Look into revisionist theory on the holocaust and you will see how the facts have been altered. Questioning history does not make one a racist so to those out there that believe we cannot question government stories, look at how the Nazi party swindled it's people into war in the first place. If that means nothing to you, recall the events leading up to the Iraq war, and now Iran. We are constantly lied to about significant world events and the motivation is most certainly NOT about national security.



please look at this video as well and you will begin to see the lies.

http://www.stage6.com/Een-Derde-Van-De-Holocaust/video/1894563/Jewish-David-Cole-interviews-Piper-(Auschwitz-museum)



And also, in case you didn't hear from the mainstream media, there has been a secret room in San Fransisco ran by AT&T(one of many around the country). Only people with NSA security clearance were allowed into this room, which reportedly was -- illegally-- recording all computer activities in the region. This means that our govenment is currently, illegally, servailing American citizens in order to crush dissent.



www.globalresearch.ca

american free press

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

Answer 9

I`m sure those that do not believe it happened think the sky is falling to. Adolph Hitler hated the Jewish people so much he has so many camps built to enslave these poor people. Funny thing everyone neglects to tell everyone is. That Hitler was of Jewish descent. He has tried for years and years to hide that from everyone. Because he was embarrassed by this fact.

Answer 10

Yes, it happened. What possible reason could there have been for faking the deaths of untold millions? It wasn't only the European Jews who suffered during this period of history. The Roma people were also affected, as well as anyone who was disabled in any way, people who were homosexual, Jehovah's Witnesses, and even Germans who opposed Hitler's regime.



I am appalled at those who claim the holocaust never happened. I have no idea how this benefits their lives. It's major denial in my opinion.



****I guess the people giving the thumbs down are 'denialists', huh? Give me a break.****

Answer 11

I just asked my Mom about it, she was ther on a tour.

At one time the shut 30000 russian prisoners, they where cuting hair for matrases, taking out gold teeth,burning people alive. I also heard they where testing drugs.There was many

consentration camps during World War Two in diferent countries.They even tryed to starve to death the whole city of Leninrad. I just cant belieave one guy from Delawere told me

USA won the war...

Answer 12

Yes it happened. There are too many witnesses, independent witnesses for it to be a lie.



The camps existed. The argument isn't did the holocaust happen, it can only be over the scale of the holocaust. There can be no question that the Nazi's extermined an awful lot of non combatants.



On that basis, it happened.

Answer 13

If not for family members that saw it, I'd prob. feel like you do.

If we say, well, what "if" it did happen, what difference does it make? most of the people that witnessed it are dead or almost dead. When I attended school, the teachers didn't teach it happened, fact is, there were only a few aspects about ww2 that were even mentioned. Hitler being one of them. In 1969, as we all sat around watching T.V. & watching the Moon being walked on & as one astronaught ran by the American flag that had been put there, what made it move when he ran by? theres no atmosphere on the moon, we been taught! What gives? Its like I said before, What difference does it make?

Answer 14

I have never doubted that the Holocast happened. I have known Jewish people who lost family members. I had a boss

who was driven from Austria to China before arriving in the US. People who debate on the side that there was no Holocaust are evil. Anyone who fights an understanding of genocide is evil.



That's just my opinion.

Answer 15

Seriously? No one thinks it is a hoax. That is, no one outside of the crazy, neo-Nazis that wave their swastika banners and certain Islamic fundamentalists. There is no way to lean towards yes or no. It happened. Over 9 million people were slaughtered. This question is just unreal. You want to know our opinions? It is not a goddamn opinion, it's fact. Are people just getting dumber and dumber these days?

Answer 16

The fact that you are asking the question means it did happen, because an idea lives in the minds of those who nurture it. The idea of great atrocity is present in you and not only you. By analyzing history one can realize that mistakes in the past do not necessarily repeat themselves if the beholder of that idea chooses not to invoke its re occurrence.

Answer 17

Yes. The documents. The film. The pictures. The testimonies of thousands upon thousands of people.



The evidence is so overwhelming in showing that it happened that it is inconceivable to me how anybody could honestly or sanely deny it.

Answer 18

The people who deny the holocaust count on nobody checking the so-called "facts" they state.



I have personally spoken with a survivor. If you ever are fortunate enough to meet one in person and ask them whether the holocaust was real, you will never doubt it again.

Answer 19

I'm all for conspiracy theories....our government is a system of corruption and manipulation, afterall. But, if you've ever seen the pain in the eyes of a holocaust survivor, you'd know without a doubt that it's not a little old Jewish actor being paid by some govment agency to tell a tale. It's real and it's raw.

Answer 20

If you do not believe that the Holocaust happened, look in to the old German archives. The Nazis pedantically documented their own crimes. Then contact the Yad Vashem in Israel and they can show you testimonies from the survivors.

Answer 21

It was orchestrated by a horrible maniac named Adolph Hitler. This man had to be insane as to think that he was "superior" to anyone. The Lord made every one of us for His purpose. I just don't understand why this man felt that he was better than anyone. What truly blows your mind is that, he too, was of Jewish descent. It was terrible. I hope and pray that mankind will STOP attacking, maiming and killing each other. If not, we who are descendants of those "wrongdoers," will have to suffer up to "10 generations" for this travesty. This is what the King James version of the Bible says. I wish you well. Peace, Love and God Bless.

Answer 22

Yes it did...I do not think American intelligence in WW2 while we were over looking and bombing Germany would be that wrong or would make that huge of an assumption they had to have known sometihng was going on..and besides even before the war started..Germany was already broadcasting to the world that Jews were not liked or alowed on German soil

Answer 23

I think that people who don't believe it happened are people who want to deny the jews any rights. surely it would take a myriad of people to make those photos and nearly impossible to stage such an event. I don't think that the people who experienced it first hand would really like your question. Good luck on your essay though lol!

Answer 24

There are always people out there who will claim something didn't happen.



According to 'some'-



There was no holocast.

We didn't land on the moon.

Al Qaeda was not responsible for 9/11.

And the Earth is not round.



Some refuse to consider logic and evidence. Their minds are made up and you are wasting your time confronting them with facts.

Answer 25

Considering that my 83 year old father wakes up screaming on a regular basis 60-odd years after liberating one of the death camps during WWII - you bet your sweet stars it happened.

Answer 26

I believe that the Holocaust happened. I don't think anyone would just lie about the torture they went through during World War Two.

Answer 27

Yes, I think it happened, but I think the numbers might have been exaggerated a little. The claim is that six million Jews were killed, but I often wondered if that was accurate. How does one know they were all Jews if most of the bodies were incinerated? I know the the Germans also threw Gypsies and homosexuals into those camps. How many of those were mistakenly counted as Jews?

Answer 28

Of course it did. Anyone who denies it is simply pursuing an agenda, and denying the facts. See:

Answer 29

it happened, just like genocide is currently occuring in Darfor right now. people choose to believe it did not happen because it is a dark time in history

surviving jews still have their number tattooed onto their arm how would you explain that?



but at the same time i think jews should stop complaining about it we realize it happened, now get over it stop trying to drag it out teach it as history not as oh we poor jews 6 million were killed oh poor jews...

Answer 30

yep just like the korean conflict did, or w war 1 or 2

your probley too young to rember, wasnt any tv reporters shoveing a mic in some ones face asking dumb ? then,

Answer 31

Yes, the Holocaust did happen.



There were too many eyewitnesses to the opening of these killing grounds to get away with a conspiracy of this magnitude.



Never again.

Answer 32

yes i do beleive it happened..

in the ninth grade i met in old lady she was 89 at the time she told us the story of what happened and she showed us picture..i even been to the holocaust MUSEUM in Washington dc it was pretty cool.

Answer 33

Yes it did happen there is no question about it, now the real statistics can be argued and will never really be known

Answer 34

the only person who doesn't believe it happened is armidijad from Iran, and there's probably a reason behind his rejection, probably because he wants to cause something like that and doesn't think it would get that much press as did the holocaust.

Answer 35

Yeah. I think it happened. Too many people still alive who went through it all. No reason to make it up.

Answer 36

I believe that idiot countries try to say it didn't happen as an excuse of why they didn't help out.



also, a fair amount of german people deny it ever happened.



To argue it didn't happen would be really stupid.

Answer 37

Of course it happened.....how would you explain the millions of bodies that we have footage and pics of? And the hari, teeth, shoes, eyeglasses.....just b/c a few nutjobs out there would like to believe it didn't happen does not make it so.

Answer 38

How can you ask like that? Of course it happened. Have you been in any concentration camps? Have you ever spoken to someone who survived it????

Answer 39

I believe that anyone who wants to deny the occurrence of the Holocaust should be placed in a concentration camp and starved to death!!

Answer 40

go to one of the holocaust victoms and look at the tatoo on their arm.



look at the videos with human jewish heads cut off, with burned children and parents and all of the gased jewish people and read eli wiesels book "night"





thats like saying african slavery never happened.

Answer 41

Naw they just made the whole thing up 4 no reason darling. This world we live in is PERFECT... Hurricane Katrina was made up 2..

Answer 42

i dont think it can be denied. it would be pretty hard to fake something so massive. go and read Mein Kamph by Adolph Hitler, and read Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally.

Answer 43

I do believe people were put into camps, slave labor mostly to work the mines, factories etc, I do not however believe that jews were the primary ones who suffered, I believe their numbers were not as large as tehy claim most died from disease and starvation not direct murder and that as many of other people suffered to and that they shouldn't direct all attention to just the jews, many were christians, Jehovah's witness (12,000) disabled, blacks, unedcuated poor etc. anyone who dissented, so the list comes to 12 million altogether that they know of. only about a million or two were jews. regardless of who whos' and how many died it was all bad horrible and deserving of not repeating in human history.



consider that most jews with money left the country beforehand. and why focus only on germany during the war? many in russia were imprisoned too, dissenters, Jehovah's witnesses who were sent to siberia to prevent them from preaching to others, as well as the poor, christians etc too. many stories I read of experiences of survivors who said that they had to work in searing heat of summer with bugs galore, with little clothing, and little to eat, little clothing during the frigid winters where temps dropped to 50 below zero and they were expected to work outside for 12 hours at a time.



many didn't survive, many frozed to death as there was little heat in the houses and tents. many surcumbed to disease as well. those that did survive have horrible memories of their experiences and many probably have nightmares of it (I know if I survived something liek that I would).



so the suffering was all around during war time, why focus on only one aspect of it unless there is a hidden agenda somewhere.



RRR

Answer 44

Sho nough and thats powerful stuff.

How did they explain a way all those bodies.

Did they all commit suicide?

Answer 45

I only believe things that can be proven.



Oh, wait, the holocaust has been proven.

Answer 46

Yes I believe that it happened, but I am definitely skeptical about some of these numbers.

Answer 47

I believe it did happen. People who deny it are utterly insane.

Answer 48

There is no doubt in my mind. To question it seems insulting to all the people that suffered and died during it.

Answer 49

there are many different ideas on this subject but i believe that it did happen

Answer 50

yes it happend!!!!!!!!! you dont have to bwelieve pictures and documents but when I was little I knew someone who was in it and the people who dont believe it are truly ignorant

Answer 51

Of course I do. That question can get you prison time in some countries.

Answer 52

Of coure it happened? How could you say it didnt. Email me ill explain more!!! proof

Answer 53

yes My parrents came from forced labor camps near one

Answer 54

Yes, sadly, it really happened. I met a survivor.

Answer 55

I do not think it happened





I know without a doubt it happened.





Only two types of people disagree



Idiots



anti-semites

Answer 56

yes I believe it happened

Answer 57

Yes it did happen. And all those things you mentioned is evidence that it did happen.

Answer 58

yes things are happening right now.

Answer 59

Anyone who denies it happened doesn't know what they're talking about.

Answer 60

Yes it did happen...

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/h...

Answer 61

i believe that more then i believe we landed on the moon....that is WAY more controversial

Answer 62

I believe it is true also.

Answer 63

In fact it did.

Answer 64

hell yeah it happ.. come on now.. be practical here... it def hap.. im really really sure of it

Answer 65

The "proof" are the people who are still alive that were part of it. It's not like it is ancient history. Duh.

Answer 66

I wish it didn't happen...

Answer 67

Yes what is wrong with you!!!

Answer 68

yes...duh