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Efforts to deny the historical reality of the Holocaust

The Nazi regime has performed thr worst ethnic massacre of the history, reaching the top during the years of the II W.W., against the Jewish community in Germany and in all the European Countries occupied by German troops.

About 6 millions Jewish people were systematically and cruelly captured, deported, and massacred in various extermination camps or lagers, built on purpose in Central Europe; this, simply for their religion and culture, that hadn't anything barbarian or offensive to justify whatever persecution.

The Jews had only ANOTHER culture, jealously kept for many centuries and it's horrible to think that their (relative) diversity, in the apparently civil Germany and Europe of that time, could be enough to unchain so much hate and racism.

This extermination system was also made of a wide network of railways to transport the prisoners like beasts toward their death destination and was built and managed with extreme cure and coldness by Adolf Eichmann, to put into practice the so-called "final solution", wanted by Hitler to eliminate the Jewish community from Europe.

Infinite and precise are the witnesses of this "industrial" massacre; short films, documentaries, books, photos, letters, documents personal witnesses of the survivors and even of their persecutors.
Many short films were made by the SS and by Russian and Anglo-American troops, as soon as the last two freed the lagers during their advance, discovering that absolute horror against innocent people, in the name of hate.
This tragedy weas already evident to the world during the Nuremberg Trial (1946-48), organized by the Allied forces against many leaders of the Nazi regime and it has soon become a solid and tragic historical reality.

Despite this, I personally find scandalous that, still today, some presumed intellectuals of the extreme Right dare deny the Holocaust; I have personally seen a huge of documentaries and read many books or articles on the Holocaust facts and, on the contrary, I have the impression that what recorded and revealed regards only part of that horror.

Not all the Right parties or movements deny or reduce the extent of the Holocaust, but there's a certain "intellectual fashion" in doing it, within the Right, in the last years;
surely, the more extreme is the Right, the more it denies the Holocaust.
They want to defend Hitler's and Nazism's memory, to look for something to save at any cost or, simply, they refuse to accept such a horrible reality because


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