Supporting a Hoax

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Our assignment for this blog was to find a site that claims the Holocaust never occurred. The author, Mark Weber, is not new to the Holocaust as a topic. He edits both the ‘IHR Newsletter’ and ‘Journal of Historical Review,’ which are both published by the Institute of Historical Review. He spends almost ten pages poking holes in history. He challenges everything from Hitler’s true intentions to the way our government presents the Holocaust to us.
In his opinion, “There is no documentary evidence that Adolf Hitler ever gave an order to exterminate the Jews, or that he knew of any extermination program. Instead, the record shows that the German leader wanted the Jews to leave Europe, by emigration if possible and by deportation if necessary.” This is excusing Hitler from responsibility of the movement he inspired. Weber also criticizes the US government and the way it portrays the Holocaust. According to Weber, the government funded Holocaust museums implant certain ideas about the Holocaust into our heads. With the devastating pictures and one sided information, we are getting the idea that the Holocaust was more of a tragedy then it actually was. He also claims that it is misleading to describe the Holocaust museums as establishments that were “generously” donated by the government. The use of the word generously suggests that they are being helpful to us as the public when actually, according to Weber, they are simply forcing their ideas onto us.
Weber also borrows ideas from British historian David Irving. Irving has called the Auschwitz death-camp story a "sinking ship" and states that there were "no gas chambers at Auschwitz . . ." Irving also made and important contribution when he produced a report prepared by Fred Leuchter. Leuchter was an authority on gas chambers. He performed forensic tests on the gas chamber at Auschwitz. Leuchter's report found “no indication of traces of poisonous gas in the walls of the gas chamber and alleged the chamber was, consequently, a fake.” In this article, there are numerous mentions that gas chambers did not exist. Weber claims that disease spread wildly in the camps and was a cause of most of the deaths. This supposedly supports the fact that gas chambers didn’t exist by providing an alternate explanation for the millions of deaths.
Then again, Weber also claims that the “millions of deaths” is not an accurate depiction of the real number. He says the number of deaths is more like one million. Recently, sites in Germany that were previously considered concentrations camps have been “quietly shut down and taken off the lists.” He sources a Swedish newspaper saying, “A leading newspaper, the daily "Baseler Nachrichten", carefully estimated in June 1946 that no more than 1.5 million European Jews could have perished under German rule during the war ("Baseler Nachrichten", June 13, 1946, p.2). According to Weber, we are just extremely misinformed about both the number of concentration camps and the number of people who were killed.
Weber closes with an almost believable summary when he says, “the Holocaust extermination story is breaking down as suppressed evidence becomes better known, and as more people become aware of the facts about what is certainly the most hyped and politicized chapter of modern history. Artificially maintaining the hatreds and passions of the past prevents genuine reconciliation and lasting peace. Revisionism promotes histiorical awareness and international understanding. That's why the work of the Institute for Historical Review is so important and deserves your support.” Weber closes with a claim of policy, a suggestion for us to become aware, join his cause, and lend our support.