Is it okay to question the facts of the holocaust?

Umm, I don't think you can.

I'm sure you weren't meaning to, but you sounded Anti-Semitic.

One problem (there are many) with questioning the numbers of the Holocaust is that the Nazis were rather anal-retentive about their records. The paper trail alone was enough, but there was a lot more as well.

Edit - Sometimes I forget my age. When I grew up, the Nuremberg Trials were recent history, just like the trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem was. For those people who grew up long after the war, I can imagine that the numbers mentioned in connection with the Holocaust can seem almost fantastic.

So, go ahead and do your research. Study the subject thoroughly enough and you may even begin to suspect that the numbers are, if anything, conservative.

It IS tricky and you ask where you can find the actual numbers and the stories about the Holocaust.

People can then show you correct web sites like:

http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/b_content/getCont...

(I was there a few months ago and just cried to see the Record room - files on prisoners - and the Wall of Names)

or: www.ushmm.org (the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC)

The parents of one of my friends were survivors (from Poland, originally) and SHE just heard the stories (she's in her 40's)!.

I would also recommend renting: Paperclips. From IMDB (movie/tv database): As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

B'Shalom (in peace)

Why do you want to? There are reams of information about the Holocaust online including the website of the Holocaust Museum. Why not just do some research for yourself? One story out of millions does not prove anything or mean anything. As a person who lost 17 members of her family in the camps, I can tell you that there are stories I wouldn't want to repeat to you because they are so horrible. And it wasn't only Jews. It was Gypsys, homosexuals, Catholic priests and nuns; the disabled, etc.

there is not any such element as a Jew who replaced into *no longer* "in contact interior the Holocaust." The Holocaust outcomes each and every Jew who has lived by way of fact it began, and could result each and every Jew who will ever stay interior the years yet to come again. we are in a position to never permit the worldwide ignore, for concern it may take place returned. "Sympathy" has never been the question. "ethical accountability" is.

Certainly, you should look up the facts for anything you want to know.

How would you ask without sounding anti-Semitic? That's a good question - people can get really defensive, really fast. Just ask honestly, and look at the records and history. (As to the answer for your question: imagine cramming as much stuff into a bag as you can. If the 1000 people were forced in and crammed one on top of the other - which they unfortunately were - they could fit into a 10x10 room.)

So you'll also be questioning the facts of the MILLIONS of NON Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis?

No? Only the Jewish deaths?

That is not OK - and not logical.

The Nazis THEMSELVES kept detailed records. It's roughly estimated that six million is an UNDER evaluation.

Do you question the numbers who die in other disasters/genocides?

No?

Interesting.

Perhaps you think that six million Jews just *vanished*?

And coincidentally, they 'vanished' JUST when the Nazis were also busy gassing, burning, shooting, starving and torturing others to death?

I'm not saying that you are an anti semite.

I AM saying that you need to think about WHY you are questioning facts that are SO well established.

To clarify:

You ask why we assume you mean Jewish deaths, well, it's because: the term Holocaust refers SPECIFICALLY to the six million Jews that were exterminated.

Nobody STOPS Polish people, and gays and JWs from naming the slaughter of THEIR loved ones - they choose not to.

We lost six million - we call it the Holocaust.

If you use that term, we'll assume you mean the Jewish victims.

The numbers are sometimes estimated mostly because the Germans destroyed most of their records of how many people died at one time or another. However, there were nazis who confessed and told what happened, and Jews who survived and worked in the SonderKommando (Jews that helped kill other Jews not by choice) who testified to what they saw and how many people died.

It's not wrong to question some of the things you may have heard, no. The best way to learn what really happened would be to do your own research with reliable sources.

If you question your sources, that's not being anti anything, it's just being smart. If you deny well documented reports and overwhelming evidence, that's when you'd start sounding antisemitic. Hope the difference is clear. ♥

The Germans kept some surprisingly good records. It also matches the population decrease quite well.