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Theories About The Holocaust

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Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Over the years much of the public has never contested this point, but there are some people who feel that there are many problems with this idea. There is a small community that believe the Holocaust never happened, many of these people have various theories about things that don’t quite add up with the story that has been believed for the last 70 years. There are many outspoken critics of the Holocaust and it has created a battle between those who feel it did happen and those who feel it couldn’t have possibly happened. The Revisionists, those who think the Holocaust didn’t occur, have multiple different theories about things that many feel are undisputed facts. Some of these theories …show more content…

251). Another point is that nothing like these trials had ever been conducted to prove that something like this happened. The trials were also not entirely appropriate, Robert Taft even came out and attacked the legal basis for the trials and the sentences that had been imposed (Butz, 2003, p. 27). The most significant point about these trials is that without them, there is almost no evidence of any “extermination” taking place (Butz, 2003, p. 28). But those who feel that the Holocaust did happen say that there is evidence other than these trials. According to Earl Rice Jr., nobody knows for sure whether or not Hitler ever gave the order, but he did reveal his role to only a few trusted underlings including Himmler and Goebbels (Rice, 1998, p. 49). The evidence of the piles of bodies that the allied forces encountered, the giant crematoriums, or the gas chambers that were used to asphyxiate the prisoners (Nazi, 2007, p. 1). The claim that there is no evidence other than the oral testimony is difficult to believe with many of the eye-witness accounts presented after the

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