Making his way out, he was sent to London by the Underground to deliver his report on the horrors he witnessed. Karski spoke with both Roosevelt and Churchill. History records, however, that Karski's pleas were largely dismissed. One need only check the major newspapers of the period to realize how little attention was paid to Nazi atrocities. If the Holocaust was merely "propaganda," why did the Allies go to such lengths to downplay it?
There is no proof that the Holocaust occurred. No crime in history has been as well-documented as the Holocaust. Proof of the Holocaust is multi-faceted. It is demonstrated by a myriad of documents, the majority of them Nazi-authored, captured by Allied troops before the Germans had a chance to destroy them.
Included are detailed reports of mass shootings and gassings. Some 3, documents on the destruction of Europe's Jewish community by the Nazis were, in fact, presented by the prosecution before war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg. The first-hand testimony of survivors who lived through the horrors of the death camps as well as the reports and confessions by the perpetrators leave little doubt as to the nature of Hitler's "Final Solution. Allied officers and troops were sickened by what they saw at sites of slaughter they had just liberated.
It is important to note, that no Nazi war crimes suspect who stood trial in the post- war years for their misdeeds ever claimed that the crimes of which they were accused were fictional. They instead argued that they were "only following orders. Johnson of the California Superior Court, took judicial notice of the Holocaust ruling that, "The Holocaust is not reasonably subject to dispute. It is capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to resources of reasonable indisputable accuracy.
It is simply a fact. It is true that Germany had fewer than , Jews when Hitler came to power in The majority of Jews murdered by the Nazis, however, did not live in Germany. They resided in the countries which Germany invaded during the war, especially Poland and areas of the former Soviet Union, where millions of Jews once made their homes.
In fact, the Protocol of the Wannsee Conference Jan. The 6 million figure can be demonstrated by comparing Europe's Jewish population before and after the war. Even after making allowances for those who fled Europe and others who could be expected to die due to natural causes, there are nearly 6,, people who cannot be accounted for. Authentic German documents confirm the slaughter of Jews in the millions.
The famous "Korherr Report" named after Richard Korherr, chief statistician for the SS puts the number of Jewish losses at more than 2,, by the end of alone. The war in Europe would not end until May, On the basis of wartime statistical reports on ghettos, concentration camps and mass murder operations carried out by the Nazis, historian and international jurist, Jacob Robinson, arrived at a figure of 5,, German historian, Helmut Krausnick, put the number of Jewish losses nearer to seven million.
While the exact figure will never be known, scholars of the Holocaust find the rounded-off figure of six million to be in line with all the evidence. The Red Cross never issued such a statistic, nor has it offered any estimate of the number of victims who perished in the camps. In its bulletin of February 1, , the Red Cross declared that it had never compiled, much less published such statistics.
The , figure was actually taken from the Swiss paper, "Die Tat", in This estimate, however, was only a figure for the number of Germans who perished in the concentration camps. No mention of any Red Cross figures, however, was ever made by the paper. Despite the obvious deception, Holocaust deniers continue to peddle it, hoping that few people will actually check the sources.
Nazi policy towards the Jews was emigration, not extermination. From the beginning, the Nazis made no secret of their goal of creating a "Jew-free" Germany and Europe. One of the earliest methods was, indeed, forced emigration. But on November 10, , precise instructions from Berlin to kill the Jews in his area were received by Higher SS and police leader, Friedrich Jeckeln from Berlin, stating, that pursuant to the Fuehrer's order, Jews would no longer be allowed "to emigrate", instead they would be "evacuated".
In the Spring of , 1, mental patients had been transferred from sanitoriums in Eastern Prussia for "evacuation" near the Soldau concentration camp. They were never heard from again. The Nazis attempted to hide their intentions by the use of codewords. Despite the attempts at deception, Victor Brack, one of the chief architects of Hitler's "euthanasia" experiments testified to the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg, that it was no secret among the Nazi hierarchy that "the Jews were to be exterminated.
This is true. Hitler was not about to repeat the mistake he had made earlier when he initialed his "euthanasia order," condemning over 70, German mental patients to death at so-called "charitable care facilities" such as Hadamar and Grafineck. Ironically, the first victims of Nazi gassings were actually non-Jewish Germans.
Popular protest which threatened his popularity, eventually forced Hitler to abandon his euthanasia experiment, or at least take it underground.
Never again would Hitler initial any document connecting himself to mass killings. Nevertheless, historians have been able to establish with convincing certainty that the order to exterminate millions of Jews came directly from Hitler. He was informed by his superior, Hinrich Lohse, that it was "the Fuehrer's wish.
The Fuehrer has placed the execution of this difficult order on my shoulders. On October 25, a directive addressed to Hinrich Lohse regarding the use of special "gassing vans", came by way of German judge, Dr.
Erhard Wetzel. She said that she was being harassed and targeted by those who did not like her views. The Court addressed the issue and agreed the right to freedom of speech and expression is a crucial one in a democratic society. However, the rights are not unqualified. As there is no specific offence of Holocaust denial, material that consists of this can only be an offence under section if grossly offensive.
In respect of Holocaust denial, the Court did go on to say:. The Holocaust — by which we mean the systematic extermination of millions of people, predominantly although not exclusively Jews, by the forces of Nazi Germany and their collaborators, between and happened. World War II is surely the best documented and most extensively studied period of modern history, and the Holocaust is one of the best documented aspects of that conflict, if not the best.
A mass of evidence, of various kinds attests to it. Moreover, the Holocaust has been the subject of extensive judicial enquiry, from the Nuremberg trials onwards, in a number of jurisdictions.
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This law, in turn, inspired many more similar pieces of legislation, which began to pop up across Europe in the s and earlys. Curiously, though, these laws are not applied consistently across Europe. Experts in the field question their efficacy in countering hate speech and whether these laws improve or harm our awareness of the Holocaust. More troubling, a new trend has begun to emerge over the course of the past several years: While many of the original Holocaust denial laws sought to protect historical facts from being misused, more and more governments are rewriting these laws in order to protect national narratives about the Holocaust.
This is dangerous because, after all, facts are facts, while narratives can be subject to interpretation. In an ideal world, Holocaust education, remembrance, and research would be sufficient to ensure a future for healthy engagement with this critical subject. But, these laws exist, and it can be awfully difficult to put a genie back in its bottle. So, do these laws do more good than harm?
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