Topic > Holocaust: The Unforgettable - 1578

The history of the Holocaust is taught systematically in school systems throughout America and most of the known world. The atrocities committed by Nazi Germany are well known and will probably never be forgotten. The evidence behind Hitler's Final Solution is undeniable. However, with the rise of Holocaust deniers we run the grave danger of forgetting the truth behind the Holocaust and condemning ourselves to repeating history once again. Holocaust deniers claim that some Holocaust events never happened or are invented; however, there are numerous types of evidence that provide concrete proof that this actually happened. Perhaps the stupidest of all the claims made by deniers is that any photographic evidence of the Holocaust was fabricated after the war and produced to gain sympathy for the Holocaust. the Jews and debilitate the Germans. Taylor Downing, a famous historian, states in his article that in an aerial photograph taken from a Mosquito plane on August 23, 1944, “one can clearly see four large gas chambers and crematoriums which were built to exterminate up to 12,000 prisoners per day” . ". It would be almost impossible to set up a concentration camp years after the end of the war and with the exact details of the actual camp without the government or the media knowing what was happening. It is ridiculous that anyone claims that any photograph taken during the Holocaust is a fake. The time and money needed to set up a single photo would be enormous beyond belief; dead bodies would have to be composed, living bodies would have to be starved to death, and a look of real desperation and fear would be achieved that no actor could. never hope to accomplish, which would be almost impossible. Photographs taken of the Holocaust were… means of paper… the atrocities associated with it. All this evidence leads to only one conceivable conclusion: the events of the Holocaust are actually happened, and there is unequivocally no presumptive evidence or illogical statement that would attempt to prove otherwise. Works Cited Benz, Wolfgang. the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Print.Downing, Taylor. “Auschwitz: the forgotten trials”. History Today 55.2 (2005): 26-32. Academic research completed. Network. October 26, 2011.Marcuse, Harold. Dachau legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print. “Fighting Holocaust Denial: Holocaust Evidence Presented at Nuremberg.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, January 6, 2011. Web. November 21, 2011. .Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Print.