Holocaust

That is why they believe it. People who believe in conspiratorial pseudohistory like Holocaust denial generally do so not because of a serious assessment of evidence, but because of an ideological/political investment in the conclusion.

Bear in mind that Holocaust denial is not a particularly easy thing to innocently come across. It's not like say, Creationism in the USA, where there is a sizable fundamentalist Christian minority who push it into the political arena and get it a certain undeserved amount of attention which could lead to one innocently coming into contact with it and being duped by it. Holocaust deniers, by contrast, are extremely fringe tiny minority in every way. Without looking for Holocaust denial material, it's unlikely you'll find it.



So "Holocaust deniers are mostly neo-Nazis and obsessive conspiracy theorists" is an extreme statement?

The point regarding the concentration camps being rebuilt after the war by the victors seems to be a key arguement of theres.

Sure, you are correct in that no one is born a Holocaust denier.

In regards to your point about where they got their beliefs from. I am not sure what would make them look for this evidence (maybe it is simply an interesting theory that makes for a good read?), however the evidence you ask for could easily be found by searching. I'm pretty sure there are websites explaining their theories and reasoning.

I don't think they have, well i know that Treblinka and Belzec have not been rebuilt.

Some of them were, I believe it was Auschwitz which was dynamited by the retreating Germans and subsequently rebuilt, atleast in part, by the Polish after the war leading to the claims, by some, that this is proof positive it was all fake.

On this topic in particular, I think you will find that @anarchism101 has excellent judgement.

Why do you say that mate?

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The fact that you have read something does not make it correct.

Because I have read many of their posts.

Their posts? How many of him is there on here?

Same reason people deny the Armenian genocide, the Holodomor, the Bengal "famine", and every single other genocide.

Rewriting history is how you win the culture war. You kill off a people, and convince everyone that they never lived there in the first place.

I have also read many, many books on the subject and my conclusion is the same. @anarchism101 is excellent at destroying the assertions of deniers and other weak-minded people.

Bear in mind that Holocaust denial is not a particularly easy thing to innocently come across. It's not like say, Creationism in the USA, where there is a sizable fundamentalist Christian minority who push it into the political arena and get it a certain undeserved amount of attention which could lead to one innocently coming into contact with it and being duped by it. Holocaust deniers, by contrast, are extremely fringe tiny minority in every way. Without looking for Holocaust denial material, it's unlikely you'll find it.

Just had a brief look in to this. Auschwitz is mostly still standing, well the brick part. Its sister camp Berkenau, has some huts standing but mostly demolished. The only thing i can find on the camp being rebuilt is a claim that after the war a hut was converted to resemble a gas chamber, by holes being put in the roof to replicate what it might have looked like for the gas to be dropped in? I haven't looked in to whether this is justified or not yet though. Do you think this is part of what they mean by rebuilt? because i don't think these camps have been fully rebuilt, well i know they haven't, unless of course googlemaps is prewar.

Let me have a look in to these claims about holes being installed after the war, it can't be true, there would be no reason for them to do that would there? Even so i can't believe that this is enough evidence to deny the event ever happened though.