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Holocaust Denial in Europe - Coggle Diagram
Holocaust Denial in Europe
Frenchman Paul Rassinier
wrote
Debunking the genocide myth
Influenced H. Elmer Barnes
He was the first to question the existence of gas chambers
Robert Faurrison
Fellow countryman of Rassinier + former literature lecturer
Argued in hist
Testimony for the defence
that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery
claimed that the gas chambers were an 'enormous hoax'
Anne Frank's diary was often used as evidence by Holocaust deniers
David Irving
best known revisionist in Britain
Claimed that Hitler was the weakest leader in the 20th century
Claimed that Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust
'Heydrich did not know secure Hitler's approval for liquidating the Jews' - common line of thought among those who want to make Hitler seem innocent
Hitler's laziness + lack of signed document does not show that Hitler is innocent
May have wanted to disprove Hitler's association with the holocaust so that he could remain an icon of the neo-fascists
Other British holocaust deniers are a ragbag collection of former members of the neo-fascist National front and British movement
Germany too produced Holocaust deniers - more commonly known as revisionist historians
