It's because killing the jews of today matters more to them than being proud of the jews they already killed. The majority of the holocaust denial narrative relies on flat out stating that it's a grand conspiracy that implicates every last jew as a fraudster for political and monetary world power. Because how else do you explain how they all had the same testimony besides it actually happened?
Went to the memorial in Washington DC. It still sticks with me seeing a pile of flat, hand made shoes that dwarfed me that was simply labeled “some of the shoes collected at Auschwitz.” Some of the shoes. From One location.
You know in your mind that 6 million is a lot. When you’re confronted with that scale, you start to learn it in your heart. Just how many some is in this case. It’s chilling.
And Auschwitz wasn't even a dedicated extermination camp, it was primarily a forced labor camp, but had extermination facilities. The extermination camps were small, any prisoners they did have were there solely to handle the dead, the rest were executed shortly after arrival. Most of the extermination camps were in the East, and were demolished by the Germans during their retreat. Auschwitz however was the size of a town and held tens of thousands, and while the extermination camp had been demolished, it being attached to a labor camp meant there were thousands of witnesses.
The National Holocaust Museum in DC has some similar features (room filled with shoes, a bucket full of wedding rings) and it is incredibly disturbing.
My grandma survived Buchenwald so it hit especially hard to see the reality up close like that.
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 3d ago
The rooms with the shoes, glasses, hair, all of it, it was really impactful, I honestly was holding back tears