Holocaust Deniers Have limited Value

So-called “Holocaust Deniers” (the radical wing of “Holocaust Revisionists”) claim to be genuine historians – but they are not. A genuine historian mines knowledge (yes, science of history is knowledge mining) from ALL relevant data and information (these are two different things).

To be more precise, knowledge (which is different from both data and information) about who did what when how why and for what purpose. What were the intended and actual outcomes of decisions and actions and if they were different – why.

Holocaust Deniers are not genuine historians because they do not work that way. They work backwards (as all propaganda does); they start with the conclusion (“Holocaust did not happen”) and pick and choose only data and information that fit this conclusion (frankly, there is not much). In short, their books, articles, movies, etc. are anti-Semitic propaganda, not genuine history.

Mainstream Holocaust historians (correctly) use the term “convergence of evidence”. It means that if you collect ALL relevant data and information on decisions and actions of the Third Reich government on the “Jewish question”, you will inevitably come to the “mainstream” conclusion.

Adolf Hitler and his henchmen did intend and plan to kill ALL the Jews under their control. They did kill 4 million Jews (you can consider this number “Holocaust Revisionism”) in two projects: “Holocaust by Bullets” and “Holocaust by Gas”.

To implement the latter, they did create six killing centers (death factories): in Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek. And they did use both stationary and mobile (gas vans) gas chambers to do the killings.

However, Holocaust deniers still have (albeit a very limited) value. They are not afraid to publicly ask questions that mainstream historians (for many reasons – mostly “political correctness”) avoid. And sometimes propose ideas and theories that mainstream historians do not even touch (for the same reasons).

Hence, I firmly believe that “Holocaust denial” must be de-criminalized worldwide. We must expose the “deniers” as liars and anti-Semites that they are – not put them in jail (the latter only makes “martyrs” out of them).

We must make it illegal only to openly call for violence (against anyone), persecution and discrimination (and to use “taboo words”) and use whatever valuable the “deniers” produce (sometimes they do).