Yesterday I began a conversation with a Denier. I actually felt sorry for this man, and even somewhat impressed. He could quote 'chapter and verse' from hate sites, as if he's read them repeatedly to memorize the material in case he needs to 'educate' people like me.
What he hasn't done, as is the case of most deniers, is to look behind the hate sites. Using facts claimed to be hidden, when in actuality they are well documented, this young man is doomed to spout a false history in order to feel better about the color of his skin.
His argument hinges on two facts: 1. A door to one of the gas chambers that has a peephole without a cover and 2. no traces of Zyklon-B on walls in a gas chamber.
He stands proudly on these two facts. His beliefs demand it.
The door he refers to, and even the walls themselves, are recreations. The chamber Deniers often offer up as evidence as proof that there were no go gas chambers is a re-construction of a gas chamber because the originals were destroyed by the Nazis to cover their crimes. This re-creation is a matter of public record. It was built to allow visitors to understand the feeling of the now destroyed chambers.
I asked him about the real chambers, currently in ruins after the Nazis attempted to destroy them when the Russians were at their door. He didn't have an exact answer, though others have explained to me that they were destroyed to make it look bad for the Nazis. The Jews did it to make it look like the Nazis were covering up war crimes.
I'm sorry, but the Nazis looked bad long before those few buildings were blown up. And it was the Nazis who destroyed them. We have that in records.
The Nazis are once again coming to power. Other supremest groups are on the rise. Deniers are becoming more and more vocal. We have to be diligent. We have to be ready to expose racism when we see it. Learn the truth and educate others.
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