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Holocaust Denial Theory

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 lie than to attempt to disprove the Holocaustùan event that tens of thousands of individual bits of hard evidence can attest to. And yet, a major plank in the revisionist history platform is concerned with debunking the Holocaust. The strategy employed by these deniers is elaborate, clever, nuanced, and of course, false. The reasons behind the denial are also numerous, though all are admittedly speculative. That Holocaust denial theory exists, however, is com...

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Holocaust Denial Theory. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 16:18, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1704469.html