Actually, there's something more... silly about the holocaust denial.
It's not just the love of Hitler. It's that it came to almost be a synonim for the anti-Israel crowd.
But here's the funny thing: Hitler and the higher ups in the NSDAP actually planned to create a Jewish state and move the Jews there, before finally going with the "Final Solution". Don't think some particular love of them, but basically the idea was one huge ghetto.
The best known variant is probably the Madagascar Plan, though Palestine was considered too at various moments. Madagascar was the preferred variant because of its being an island and they'd be prevented by the sea from coming back.
Really, the key to understanding it all, is that the Nazis wanted the Jews removed from German society. Genocide was an option, but not the first one considered seriously and in a way not a purpose in itself.
(In fact, ironically, none other than Himmler seems to be against genocide in this quote from 1940, "
However cruel and tragic each individual case may be, this method is still the mildest and best, if one rejects the Bolshevik method of physical extermination of a people out of inner conviction as un-German and impossible.")
Anyway, the key idea was that the Jews had to go. They can jolly well be somewhere else, just as long as they're not _here_.
In fact Wannsee and the "Final Solution" only happened when it became clear that Germany will never be in a position to do that.
Anyway, Nazi Germany actually planned to create a sort of a Jewish state. A puppet state, make no mistake, but the plan still was to let it largely self-govern (as was largely the case with the ghettos too), and only nominally answer to a German governor.
And again, Madagascar was the preferred variant only because they wanted to prevent the Jews from coming back. If you told Hitler or Himmler or Rademacher (the guy in charge of planning the Madagascar deportation) that you could just let some millions go to Israel and they'll actually want to stay there, they'd have even paid the relocation costs. They were planning to pay for the Madagascar move anyway.
So it's kind of ironic to see the lemmings rush to the defense of Hitler, yet use it as a rallying ideology against something that Hitler himself would have and _had_ approved of, and which was an official directive and had a planning committee at least from 1940 to 1942
ETA: I mean, seriously, in 1940 Himmler discussed his proposal with Hitler of sending the Jews "
to a colony in Africa or elsewhere" and Hitler responded that the plan was "
very good and correct."
I mean, WTH?
Of course, that would require actually knowing history.
Hmm, ok, so I answered my own question. Never mind
I mean, wth, at least technically Britain and France had declared war on Germany in the west in defense of Poland, but the war against the USSR in the east was started by Germany. How does he manage to blame the Jews for starting _that_ conflict?
