Some refer to the holocaust as the systematic, bureaucratic, satanic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. While on the other hand, people look at the Holocaust as a hoax, as a propaganda machine. The Holocaust changed the face of the world, it changed the perspective of Mankind. Some go out on the limb to make sure this event never happens again, while others have used the Holocaust as a basis for pursueing political and personal agendas. The Holocaust left a burden, on the Human race of the evil Man is capable of committing.
We will investigate and discuss different aspects of the Holocaust, including:
- I. The Death Toll
- II. What happened after-wards.
I will provide background information on each of the discussions.
A) The Holocaust happened to the extent it is proposed, 6 million deaths.
6 million death perspective: People often stick to the 6 million death toll figure.
The 6 million figure is believed to have come from the Korherr report and the Hofle Telegram, which leaves the remainder up for assumptions.
The Korherr report:
The main report, published in March of that year, summarized the progress of the Final Solution though December, 1942, and a supplemental report covered the first quarter of 1943. Himmler accepted the report, but made Korherr change the euphemism used for the murder of the Jews in the document from the increasingly well-known Sonderbehandlung or "special treatment," to the word durchgeschleust or "processed."[citation needed]
The report calculated that, from the time the Nazis came to power to the end of 1942, four million Jews had been eliminated from Europe, of which 1.5 million emigrated and 2,454,000 had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen or in extermination camps, though the report admits that this death total was likely an undercount, since it specifically excludes those who died in the harsh conditions of the ghettos and concentration camps. Korherr estimated that around 6 million Jews remained in Europe. The report concludes "Since the seizure of power the number of Jews in Europe, which was over ten millions in 1933, has been halved; the decline of over four millions is due to German influence."
Adolf Eichmann, during his trial, recalled using the Korherr report to plan the progress of the Final Solution, including calculations of trains needed to transport Jews to death camps. He stated that he had given Korherr "All our top-secret stuff. That was the order. All the shipments, insofar as they had been reported to us."
Korherr himself worked for the West German Ministry of Finance after the war, claiming that he did not understand the figures in his report, or what they referred to, until he was finally dismissed from the position in 1961.
More information on the Korherr report can be found
here.
The Hofle Telegram:
The Höfle Telegram is a document discovered in 2000 among recently declassified World War II materials from the Public Record Office in Kew, England. The document consists of two messages, one to SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin, and one to SS Obersturmbannführer Heim, in Cracow, sent by SS Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle on January 11 1943. It gave arrivals in the prior fortnight, and cumulative arrivals, for the camps of Einsatz Reinhardt (later more commonly called Aktion Reinhard) to December 31, 1942.
More information on the Korherr report can be found
here
B) The Holocaust was exaggerated, 6 million did not die.
Refuting the Holocaust is deeply investigated, people think there's no proof that suggest 6 million did die. And that the only 'proof' there is, is an estimation.
The Holocaust and its aftermath left millions of refugees, including many Jews who had lost most or all of their family members and possessions, and often faced persistent anti-Semitism in their home countries. The original plan of the Allies was to repatriate these "Displaced Persons" to their country of origin, but many refused to return, or were unable to as their homes or communities had been destroyed. As a result, more than 250,000 languished in Displaced person camps for years after the war ended.
With most displaced persons unable or unwilling to return to their former homes in Europe and with restrictions to immigration to many western countries remaining in place, Palestine became the primary destination for many Jewish refugees. However, as local Arabs opposed the immigration, the United Kingdom refused to allow Jewish refugees into the Mandate, and many countries in the Soviet Bloc made emigration difficult. Former Jewish partisans in Europe, along with the Haganah in Palestine, organized a massive effort to smuggle Jews into Palestine, called Berihah, which eventually transported 250,000 Jews (both DPs and those who hid during the war) to the Mandate. By 1952, the Displaced Persons camps were closed, with over 80,000 Jewish DPs in the United States, about 136,000 in Israel, and another 20,000 in other nations, including Canada and South Africa.
The Holocaust led to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. It has caused even more blood-shed. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict emerged, as did the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Since the creation of Israel. It has been in several wars, and on-going wars:
* 1948 War of Independence (November 1947 - July 1949), that started by a 6 months of civil war between Jewish and Arab militias at the end of the British Mandate of Palestine and that turned into a regular war after the declaration of independence of Israel and the intervention of several Arab armies. In its conclusion, a set of agreements were signed between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria called the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line.
* The Sinai War (October 1956) - a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956 with the intention to occupy the Sinai Peninsula and to take over the Suez Canal. The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam.
* Six-Day War (June 1967) - fought between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The nations of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Algeria also contributed troops and arms to the Arab forces. Following the war the territory held by Israel expanded significantly ("The Purple Line") : The West Bank, Golan Heights and Sinai were occupied from Jordan, Syria and Egypt, respectively.
* War of Attrition (1968-1970) - a limited war fought between the Israeli military and forces of the Egyptian Republic, the USSR and the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1967 to 1970. It was initiated by the Egyptians as a way of recapturing the Sinai from the Israelis, who had been in control of the territory since the mid-1967 Six-Day War. The hostilities ended with a ceasefire signed between the countries in 1970 with frontiers remaining in the same place as when the war began.
* Yon Kippur War (October 1973) - fought from October 6 to October 26, 1973 by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel as a way of recapturing part of the territories which they lost to the Israelis back in the Six-Day War. The war began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Egypt and Syria crossed the cease-fire lines in the Sinai and Golan Heights, respectively, which had been captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War.
* First Lebanon War (1982) - began in 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. The Government of Israel ordered the invasion as a response to the assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov by the Abu Nidal Organization and due to the constant terror attacks on northern Israel made by the terrorist organizations which resided in Lebanon. See also Operation Litani.
* Second Lebanon War (summer 2006) - began as military operation in response to the abduction of two Israeli reserve soldiers by the Hezbollah. The operation gradually strengthened, to become a wider confrontation. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military. The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon.
The creation of Israel is also believed to have caused even major conflicts, you may have heard this conflict called the 'War on Terror'.
According to a confession by a 9/11 master-mind, his motive behind the attack is influenced because of America's foreign policy in that area(Israel-Palestine).
Even more proof, is Osama Bin Laden's 'letter to America'. Where he lays out his motives behind the attack, he went into extensive detail on how what America and Israel is doing to the Palestinians is immoral, and unethical.
Here's an excerpt from that letter:
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
Your thoughts?