oh, bull shit. that whole thing about how zero jews died in the camps except for typhus and starvation as a result of allied bombing is ridiculous. sure there's the wooden doors and detached chimney and yadda yadda, some of the story as we know it might be fake (it is an industry after all, like finkelstein says).  but jews were beaten and shot all the time, in great numbers, all across europe. camps like dachau, auschwitz, treblinka were places where a huge number of deaths occurred.  and even aside from the camps- which were real- there were ghettos, and pogroms, like those carried out by ukraine's favorite son bandera. to my mind, saying the nazis killed no jews is a bit like flat earth. it's a red herring, promoted by bad actors to mislead honest truth seekers. this type of belief is attractive because it elides ambiguity- it's simple.  with flat earth, maybe it's people who watch graham hancock and start to realize they've been lied to, they read old stories about shambhala and operation highjump and go off the deep end. yes, we have been lied to about history. but to say we've been lied to about earth being a ball is too far they overshoot the truth and end up believing something ridiculous, patently false, but seductive because it offers concrete answers, like a religion.  "objective truth" of any kind (religious, ideological, ontological) is very seductive because it offers the seeker a refuge, where they can feel safe because they have the answers to complex questions. no more icky grey, just comfy black and white. have we been lied to about history, which is written by the victors, who are interested in justifying their power? obviously is ww2 part of history? yes so are we being lied to about some parts of ww2? almost certainly is the holocaust and final solution one of those parts? quite probably, at least in some significant details were jewish people and other minorities disenfranchised and killed in great numbers? yes. no question.
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