Holocaust Denial

[Rev. Rye]

There's always the fact that, to my knowledge, none of the senior Nazi figures ever denied their part in the Holocaust. Which, you know, would presumably be your first objection if it didn't happen.

Hmmm, I thought most of the ones brought to trial did, to try to save their own necks.

I think Goring tried to deny it, but most of the rest just said that "an order's an order" and that they weren't liable and they were somehow kept in the dark about the Concentration Camps anyway, even though, at best (or least damningly) some of them knew just what questions to avoid asking to what people, especially when, IIRC, most of the Nuremberg defendants (with the obvious exception of Rudolf Hess, British POW since before the Wannsee Conference) witnessed Himmler's Posen speech where he spoke with uncharacteristic frankness about the the extermination of the Jews.

Also, I highly doubt the USSR ever denied the Holocaust, especially given that the Red Army were the ones who liberated Auschwitz in the first place. Honestly, if anything, they might have actually exaggerated it a little, since, until the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Auschwitz museum claimed that four million died there (the number would later be revised to 1.5 million, a number closer to the accepted estimated death tolls than the ones the Soviets gave.)

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/world/...blets.html