# Why is denying the Jewish Holocaust such a bad thing

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**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-denying-the-jewish-holocaust-such-a-bad-thing/335727 "2005-12-15T15:15:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-denying-the-jewish-holocaust-such-a-bad-thing/335727/121 "2014-01-24T21:18:12Z")

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I wonder why anyone would think the Nazis would deport witnesses to their depravity _anywhere_, no matter what lands were conquered or that, on the _very_ off chance they would export the Jews Saudi Arabia, they wouldn’t take the land back the instant oil was discovered.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-denying-the-jewish-holocaust-such-a-bad-thing/335727/122 "2014-01-24T21:22:51Z")

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The Nazis were not terribly logical.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-denying-the-jewish-holocaust-such-a-bad-thing/335727/123 "2014-01-24T21:24:30Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Yes it is. It’s terribly disrespectful to survivors and their families and the concept of justice in general.

I’d say it’s disrespectful to the dead too. Apparently they were so unimportant that killing them was equivalent to killing ants as you walk around the street. No human being is that irrelevant.

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**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-denying-the-jewish-holocaust-such-a-bad-thing/335727/124 "2014-01-24T23:18:06Z")

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> [@Honesty](#):
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> The color of their skin.  
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> - Honesty

Which is why the Armenian Holocaust gets so much publicity. :rolleyes:

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