rt from Berlin. No liquidation" (Shermer 217).
The second premise asserts that the infamous gas chambers at Auschwitz and other internment camps did not in fact existùat least not as mass extermination mechanisms (Shermer 189). Rather than gas chambers, it was harsh living conditions, forced labor, and disease that attributed to the Jewish peoples' demise during these years. Shootings and hangings did occur, Holocaust deniers will concede, as did some experimental gassings; likewise, it is not contested that the prisoner-Jews were overworked and given scant rations on which to live (Shermer 189). This approach to the Nazi prisoner-of-war plan aims to procure for the Holocaust denier a degree of moral equivalencyùif not moral rectitude. By describing the fate of the Jews in this way, the Holocaust denier is putting the Nazi official on the same moral plane as his counterpart in any Allied camp during World War II. The American and Canadian internment of their Japanese citizens, as well as the deliberate military targeting of civilian populat
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