From 1939 to 1945, the Nazi party took over most of Europe in the conquest to kill of anybody other than their own. They targeted several groups such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, and the main group were the Jews. Most Jewish people living today believe in the Holocaust because they were related to the fallen but, others believe that the Holocaust was a false event in our worlds history and a way for the Jews to get a financial and political advantage. Holocaust denial was created because of the growing history and the gradual deaths of Holocaust witnesses and victims as time pressed on.
Documentation: The first reason why the Holocaust is not a hoax is because of the documented mass murder of many Jewish people. Many videos were sent to SS officers in Berlin from 1941-1942 of approximately a million Jewish people being shot and thrown into massive pits where they would be buried among others that were killed. The groups that organized the massacre documented all they have killed and sorted them into man, woman, and children. Non-believers of the Holocaust believe these videos were scripted and a way for others to pity the Jews all across the world. They believe that video forgers created these videos but the wide distribution of these videos make it clear that the murders had no shame in their actions and it is not illegal to show these videos. (Analyzing the Holocaust)
Confessions: Not only were documents and videos shown to the public about what the soldiers did to the Jews but, the perpetrators of this massive crime have confessed to what they did in order to follow the orders of the superior power of their party. They were immediately sentenced to death after their confession. Holocaust deniers believe that these confessions were told out of torture. They think that without violence in order to receive these confessions, nobody would admit to the awful crime they committed. SS-Major General, Dr. Harald Turner confessed what he did to the world it a few short yet meaningful sentences. “Already some months ago, I shot dead all the Jews I could get my hands on this area, concentrated all the Jewish women and children in a camp and with the help of the SD got my hands on a 'delousing van', that in about 14 days to 4 weeks will have brought about the definitive clearing out of the camp” (Turner). This contradicts with true history because after these former soldiers were sentenced to death, they gave a greatly detailed description of what they have done to the Jews and other groups even though they already admitted to their crime. (BBC News)
Disappearances: Because of these soldiers that eventually confessed, many prisoners in these concentration camps have disappeared from their lives. Non believers of the Holocaust believe that the Jews have been undetected from their past life because they left successfully to places like the Soviet Union or the United States. The truth of the matter is that these victims did not make it out of their imprisonment alive. Arthur Butz, a denier, believes that the survivors were not documented to be back with their relatives before the Holocaust because they all had bad relationships and marriages. After they were “released” deniers believe that survivors found new families and never documented their new marriage. (Deniers/Non Believers of the Holocaust)
The reason that these deniers believe that the Holocaust never existed is because of their hatred against the Jews. They believe that the mass murdering of six million Jews is a hoax. They claim that the Holocaust was used as an exaggeration to advance Jewish interests. Their accusations towards the Jews creating the Holocaust are incorrect due to all of the evidence found from the Holocaust. There are still survivors of the many killed that share their stories to the world. There purpose is to spread the word of the Holocaust so that everybody believes in it and it will never happen again. Being one of the most well-documented event in history including videos, pictures, and disappearances, it is nearly impossible to say that the Holocaust did not happen.