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<blockquote data-quote="Naofumi" data-source="post: 47433" data-attributes="member: 39">But what about the Holocaust? What about the death camps and gaschambers? Isn&#039;t this the terrible, inevitable outcome of Hitler&#039;s warped vision?Here we have perhaps the greatest deception of all. In order to show theworld the horrible outcome of a potent anti-Semitism, a tale of monumentalhuman disaster had to be constructed. Once constructed, it then had to bepromoted and sustained. The undeniable and tragic death of severalhundred thousand Jews-which included many deaths by old age, disease,injury, suicide, and in combat situations-would have to become &quot;6million.&quot; Tough talk against Jews, aimed at driving them out of Germany,would have to become &quot;euphemisms for mass murder.&quot; Rooms designedto disinfest clothing and bedding against disease-carrying lice would haveto become &quot;homicidal gas chambers.&quot; Hundreds of thousands of Jewishbodies would have to be burned down to ash, and then made to completelyvanish. Transit camps constructed to move Jews out of the ReichTreblinka, Belzec, Sobibor-would have to become &quot;extermination camps&quot;designed for mass-murder; and with diesel engine exhaust, no less. And aforced labor camp in which thousands of Jews died from typhusAuschwitz-would have to become &quot;the greatest death camp of all time.&quot;Clearly there is much more to be said here. For those interested readers,sources such as Dalton (2014b, 2015) or Rudolf (201 1) are recommended.Suffice to say that the Holocaust, as commonly portrayed, is anunsubstantiated, unwarranted, and unjustified exaggeration of epicproportions. Nearly every aspect of the story crumbles as soon as it is putto the test. The alleged horror of the Holocaust becomes, in the end, a storyof the dismantling and expulsion of one particular minority community thatheld disproportionate power in a nation that did not want them, and thatbore disproportionate guilt for that nation&#039;s misfortunes. That theythemselves should have suffered as a result is unsurprising.READING MEIN KAMPFTwo final things should be kept in mind by any contemporary reader ofthis book. First, the obvious point: the writer did not know the fature. It isvery difficult for us, knowing history, to imagine these words being writtenby a 38-year-old leader of a minor political party who could not have knownwhat was to come. Hitler had visions, ideas, expectations-which turnedout to be stunningly accurate. His powers of perception and foresight wereastonishing. And yet for him, at the time, they were just thoughts of a</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Naofumi, post: 47433, member: 39"] But what about the Holocaust? What about the death camps and gas chambers? Isn't this the terrible, inevitable outcome of Hitler's warped vision? Here we have perhaps the greatest deception of all. In order to show the world the horrible outcome of a potent anti-Semitism, a tale of monumental human disaster had to be constructed. Once constructed, it then had to be promoted and sustained. The undeniable and tragic death of several hundred thousand Jews-which included many deaths by old age, disease, injury, suicide, and in combat situations-would have to become "6 million." Tough talk against Jews, aimed at driving them out of Germany, would have to become "euphemisms for mass murder." Rooms designed to disinfest clothing and bedding against disease-carrying lice would have to become "homicidal gas chambers." Hundreds of thousands of Jewish bodies would have to be burned down to ash, and then made to completely vanish. Transit camps constructed to move Jews out of the Reich Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor-would have to become "extermination camps" designed for mass-murder; and with diesel engine exhaust, no less. And a forced labor camp in which thousands of Jews died from typhus Auschwitz-would have to become "the greatest death camp of all time." Clearly there is much more to be said here. For those interested readers, sources such as Dalton (2014b, 2015) or Rudolf (201 1) are recommended. Suffice to say that the Holocaust, as commonly portrayed, is an unsubstantiated, unwarranted, and unjustified exaggeration of epic proportions. Nearly every aspect of the story crumbles as soon as it is put to the test. The alleged horror of the Holocaust becomes, in the end, a story of the dismantling and expulsion of one particular minority community that held disproportionate power in a nation that did not want them, and that bore disproportionate guilt for that nation's misfortunes. That they themselves should have suffered as a result is unsurprising. READING MEIN KAMPF Two final things should be kept in mind by any contemporary reader of this book. First, the obvious point: the writer did not know the fature. It is very difficult for us, knowing history, to imagine these words being written by a 38-year-old leader of a minor political party who could not have known what was to come. Hitler had visions, ideas, expectations-which turned out to be stunningly accurate. His powers of perception and foresight were astonishing. And yet for him, at the time, they were just thoughts of a [/QUOTE]

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