Holocaust Deniers

During WWII, Adolf Hitler began his program of world domination and ethnic cleansing. Upon reading information about the “ubermensch” (superman), Hitler believe that there was the possibility of a race of superior people. These people would have blonde hair and blue eyes and be called Aryans. They would possess superior strength, intellectual capability, and power to rule. Based on the premise of evolution, that only the strong survive, Hitler’s ideology motivated him to kill those who he felt were far from his idea of the superior race, the Jews. Over the years of the 2nd world war, Hitler and his Third Reich would kill over 6 million Jews to prove his point of superiority. The scars of the Holocaust still run deep in both an emotional and literal sense. Even more hurtful is the fact that there are some in America, Europe, and other parts of the developed and civilized world that hold the belief that the Holocaust is a myth and never happened.

1.Why do you think some people refuse to look at the Holocaust as a significant historical event?
2.How might you convince someone of an event like the Holocaust being a credible historical event?
3.What do you think is the reason for the belief of the Holocaust as a myth?