Hi Pure Argent:
When I realized the thread had gone into a "free for all" I just started breaking my own rules too. It's very difficult to discuss the holocaust because people think it's o.k. to jump around. People will right away post photos of dead bodies, and say their dad, being a WWII soldier in the 101 Airborn, is evidence.
People don't say "My dad was a WWII soldier, therefore the Holocaust happened." They say, "My dad was a WWII soldier who saw the death camps. Therefore, I believe that the Holocaust happened."
They believe that the Nazis were caught red-handed killing Jews, they think Americans and British liberated camps where the final solution of genocide of Jews had been implemented. But when you look at Raul Hilberg's book, The Destruction of the European Jews, you find that those camps were in the East, were liberated by the USSR, and when they were liberated, the "Final Solution" had been over for quite some time.
Dead wrong. The Americans and British and French and all their allies found plenty of death camps in the west. The USSR were simply the first soldiers to find a death camp. The Western forces' first death camp experience was at Buchenwald. Source.
Even if the Americans had never found one, though, the fact remains that the Russians did.
Thus their conception of certain posters here, that the Nazis were caught red-handed killing Jews in the West as part of the holocaust is totally wrong, yet this is why they're positive the holocaust happened.
Your basic reason for not believing in the Holocaust has just been shown to be wrong.
You can't understand the holocaust myth without understanding Zionism. The idea of Jews moving to Israel was too farfetched even for many Jews at the turn of the century, because people already lived there: Palestinian Arabs. Here's an excerpt regarding Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, which discusses the idea of making a Jewish country in Africa. The excerpt below is from a couple paragraphs on pg. 390.
Yeah, so? So what if the Jews were thinking of going to Africa? They certainly didn't intend to go in the way that Hitler was going to make them go.
One interesting aspect of the Uganda idea is that much later in the 1970's, Israel had an interest in Uganda. They helped put Idi Amin in place, but when Amin turned against Israel, he was soon after being portrayed as a huge NutJob, which was probably due to a Psyche Warfare, "PR warfare" campaign against him, hence really ridiculous notions that everyone today believes due to movies, like that Idi Amin actually believed that he was "The Last King of Scotland." which ties in with the free internet video,
Nazi Shrunken Heads.
Derail, followed by another anti-Holocaust link that is totally off-topic. Ignored.