We are compelled to believe. But why is it incumbent on any citizen to believe undocumented claims about a fifty year old event?
To doubt such claims is the most ordinary function of the thinking person’s intellect. There is no need to be a Nazi or a racist or a “Jew-hater” to doubt. The Holocaust is the most documented event in all world history. To deny it would be like saying that the Civil War didn’t happen. Not quite. No revisionist says that the concentration camps “didn’t happen” or that persecution of the Jews “didn’t happen.” What revisionists raise is the question of what specifically did transpire in those camps. So the accurate analogy would be to doubts concerning the official teaching about the Confederate prisoner camp in Andersonville and not to the Civil War itself. The Civil War analogy is a ridiculous one and reflects a constant need among the enemies of the revisionists to caricature and distort our actual beliefs. If you want to say that questioning what went on in Auschwitz would be like questioning what went on in Andersonville, you’d be on historically valid ground. But then your hysteric
