Do you actually believe that the Holocaust ever took place?

Anyone can feel free to debate my answer, and I'll do my best to respond. There's more evidence the Holocaust happened than Pearl Harbor happened. I'm not going to waste mine or anyone else's time discussing things you can find in 5 seconds. Instead I will address some myths about the Holocaust I know from studying the subject for 10 years:

1.) The Jews were not the Nazis' most hated - not even close. Russians were always enemy numero uno. People don't realize this, but Hitler didn't care whether all Jews died. He wanted them out of Europe, because he felt they breed concepts like democracy, morality and other concepts that undermined Hitler's interests. He wanted them away. On the other hand, Hitler wanted all Russians dead. He felt that Russians were the eternal enemy of the Aryans and had to be exterminated.

2.) So if Hitler hated Russians much more than Jews, why did 6MM Jews die? Jews were very easy targets. There was no Jewish country, the West was very anti-Semitic at that time and you can research American opinion polls on taking in Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in the years leading up to the Holocaust. Many people hated Jews, but most didn't care. That's why the Holocaust happened. Russians on the other hand were massacred, but were generally protected by the Soviet Union.

2.) The Holocaust also included the Romanis, Homosexuals, People opposed to Nazism and the physically disabled.

3.) Murdering 6MM Jews was not about torturing people like ISIS does today. It was based on a flawed scientific argument about removing people regarded as genetically inferior, and was supported by a large percentage of the scientific community. As crazy as it seems, many felt the Holocaust benefited the victims as well by removing them from the shame of going through life as genetically inferior. If there were no Jews in Europe, and 6MM black people then 6MM black people would have been killed.

3.) As far as ways to die go the gas chambers and concentration camps were profoundly less painful than the "Holocaust by bullets" where people were shot into mass graves, often surviving the first shot. Xyclone B (the chemical in the gas chamber) was used to kill cattle for decades after WW2, because it was more humane than shooting the cows. There really would be no reason for anyone to make up the concentration camps, because it's difficult to think of a more humane way to massacre people. I'm not defending it, but merely saying that when you add up the #'s and realize 6MM people die, you can think of much, much, much worse ways to mass murder a population.

The Holocaust is an example of what can happen to a minority that has no rights. If Israel existed during WW2, the Holocaust 100% does not happen. Jews would either be expelled to Israel, or more likely, the Nazis don't attempt the Holocaust. In all honesty, while substantial resources were used to make the Holocaust happen, it was not a major part of their bucket list. It was simply easy, and an effective way to raise money by taking all the property belonging to 6MM people.

There are eyewitness accounts from soldiers who liberated the camps. President Eisenhower was so enraged by the slaughter that he went to a camp and invited journalists and the media to publicize the horror.

When the SS guards left the camps, they left in such a hurry that they left behind mountains of documents.

The Final Solution was a top level Nazi plan put into place in 1942 at a conference (the Wansee conference, I believe). Since about the age of 19 Hitler ranted ceaselessly about how Jews had to be exterminated. Nazi propaganda called for the same thing.

At the Nuremberg Trials none of the top Nazis denied the Holocaust. They simply claimed to be following orders.

Hitler's architect and Reichs Minister Albert Speer wrote his autobiography, in which he admits the reality of the Holocaust.

Jews are not the only ones who claim they were victims. The Nazis also killed large numbers of Poles, and nearly wiped out the Gypsies. If you need more information, I can direct you to libraries full of it.

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews and other groups in the Holocaust during World War II.Holocaust denial often includes the following claims: that Nazi Germany's Final Solution was aimed only at deporting Jews from the Reich, but that it did not include the extermination of Jews; that Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews; and that the actual number of Jews killed was significantly (typically an order of magnitude) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million

Konrad Adenauer was in Prison for speaking out against the Nazis he became the First Post war Chancellor served for 14 years he said Sorry to the Jews he arranged Pensions for the Survivors

and to Protect the Dignity of those 17 Million Civilians who died under that nazis he banned Holocaust Denial in Germany

I was in Germany after WW2 with the RAF and i never met a single German who denied the Holocaust or their Part in it

even IBM took the Profits and never apologized for helping with the Holocaust

Of course! Images, videos, and stuff were taken right after they were found because everyone said "Things like this need to be recorded now, because someone is bound to not belive this ever happened." I'm not going to be that person. Survivors told stories, why would they lie? PTSD, flashbacks, and Nazi documents ordering the "Final Solution" have overwhelming evidence that it happened.

Why would you doubt it? There is vast amounts of evidence in all forms. So yes I do believe it took place

Do you exclude the 5.5m non-Jewish victims of Nazi atrocities because you believe that did happen?

Why then would the extermination of 6m Jews be hard to accept?

This question is completely retarded. History is not a matter of opinion, but a matter of facts. Is it so hard to believe that people can be so evil as to murder millions of innocent people? What world are you living in. This is completely disrespectful question.

Yes! There is so much evidence that proves it did. It's silly to think it was made up.

I have met people with tattoos they received from the concentration camps. It's heart breaking.