Holocaust Denial Theory
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There is a burden of proof that every historian must bear, and it is in many respects one's ability to authenticate an historical event with hard data and incontrovertible fact that will validate one's analysis of the past. Old Testament accounts, for example, oftentimes discuss characters and events that are only to be found in the Old Testament itself. Archaeology has done little to verify claims that, for instance, men such as Solomon or Abraham ever actually existed. Conversely, archaeology will be particularly challenged to prove that they did not exist, and for this both believers and skeptics will always have a purchase on this particular facet of the ancient past. As it pertains to the recent past, by contrast, there is little that an authoritative history is left wantingùparticularly concerning events that have taken place during the last 75 years. Photographs, video, written records, sound bytes, and even living eyewitness testimony can all corroborate major historical events, rendering them complete and in detail. The Holocaust is just such an event that can, in hindsight, be placed firmly within the realm of those events that are, without question, known to have taken place. How, then, has a trend in Holocaust denial managed to take root in open, liberal societies that provide for the free flow of information? The revisionist historian, one suspects, would do better to question Moses' parting of the Red Sea or George Washington's reluctance to tell a li
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German peopleùnot the Jewsùare the real victims of World War II and the legacy it has produced.
Defenders of the Holocaust denial theory are not wholly of the eccentric, irrational ilk. On the contrary, many are serious scholars that at one time enjoyed reputations for sound thinking and legitimate inquiry. Also, much of the written work provided by these thinkers is lucid and persuasive, and intended to recruit othersùparticularly studentsùinto the fold. A good portion of the literature denies that this is an anti-Semitic movement, and purports instead to be scholarship in the service of genuine history and against the distortion of historical fact. Bradley Smith, for example, a leading mouthpiece for the Holocaust denial theory and director of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), has run a series of ads in college newspapers since 1991. In these little adds, Smith touts the "Revisionist Controversy" and encourages readers to visit his website to "Read the evidence" and "Judge for yourself" (www.adl.org).
Smith, employing many of the arguments sketched above, describes the Holocaust as a "fraud" that has been propagated by a "Holocaust lobby" that is owned and operated by Jews (www.adl.org). For Smit
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