Holocaust Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists by Bridey Heing

Author:Bridey Heing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
Published: 2020-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Forgery on the enormous scale of the Holocaust documentation would be impossible. The documents are too numerous, their sources too diverse, and the time period of their discovery too limited for such massive, coordinated forgery to take place. And there was no conceivable reason for the discoverers of most documents, the victorious World War II Allies, to fabricate the vast quantity of documents about the Holocaust.

A Key Resource: The Holocaust Museum

In the United States, the most thorough pedagogical documentation of the Holocaust, which presents the historical timeline of the Holocaust from beginning to end, is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.24 Almost all the contents of the Museum’s permanent exhibition are actual artifacts-objects, photos, oral histories, eyewitness evidence, including the testimony of survivors, and documentary footage. These objects tell a story, a history of the Holocaust, from its beginning through its middle to its end making, the Museum an important pedagogical tool.25 Though the purpose of the Holocaust Museum is to teach a lesson and preserve memory, and not to answer the claims of those who say the event never happened, the institution ends up doing this as well.

Inscribed on the walls of the building and repeated at the beginning of the Museum’s permanent exhibition are the words of General Eisenhower after witnessing the Ohrdruf concentration camp following its liberation—the first publicized testimony by an American on the atrocities of the Holocaust:

The things I saw beggar description … the visual evidence and verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were overpowering… I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations to propaganda.26

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