
Following the recent uptick in anti-semitic rhetoric and claims that death camps never existed, the Onion asked holocaust deniers to explain why they deny the holocaust, and this is what they said.
Following the recent uptick in anti-semitic rhetoric and claims that death camps never existed, the Onion asked holocaust deniers to explain why they deny the holocaust, and this is what they said.
“If you examine the evidence, it’s very obvious that the vast, meticulous records the Nazis kept of their genocidal activities over the course of twelve years were produced under duress.”
“All the evidence is there if you know how to make it up.”
“Our high school history books were printed in 1934.”
“Denial is the first stage of grief.”
“Do you see any Holocaust? I don’t see any Holocaust.”
“I’m really, really hoping for a job in the next Republican presidential administration.”
“There isn’t a single historical record of Hitler ever saying ‘I’m doing the Holocaust now,’ in all of World War 2.”
“It was made up so Liam Neeson can finally get the star vehicle he deserved in The Schindler’s List.”
“The Holocaust Museum is a political instrument engineered by 8th grade teachers to get their students to shut up for an hour on their Washington D.C. trip.”
“Higher engagement.”
“It drives the people who were in the Holocaust nuts.”
“I prefer to focus on celebrating other historical anti-Semetic events.”
“The YouTube algorithm had a different path in store for me.”
I don’t believe Germans are real.
“It gives me something interesting to talk to my riders about.”
“No movies I’ve seen about it start with ‘Based on a True Story.’”
“So, what? I’m confronted with facts and overwhelming evidence and I’m just supposed to believe it?”
“If it never happened I don’t have to write a paper on it.”
“I just don’t believe God would’ve let that happen to white people.”
“For such a historically significant event, it’s never been the subject of a single Disney animated film.”
“It’s the only way Florida will buy our textbooks.”