Blog 2

Plato’s story of The Allegory of the Cave is a great way in showing how people at times can ignore what’s real or may think didn’t exist. One subject matter that some people refuse to sometimes admit to is the holocaust. A lot of holocaust “denier’s” are claim that it was a deliberate scheme intended on advancing Jews interests onto other people. Another claim was that the stories of concentration camps and mass murdering were something created as propaganda to make the Germans seem more evil during World War 2. While these seem to be good arguments can you really argue documented facts in text books and live accounts of survivors?  There are a lot of pictures that validate the fact that the holocaust really wasn’t a hoax. I think that the main proof of it is that a lot of the concentration camps still do exist to this day. One person who has been heavily in the debate about the holocaust being fake is Willis Carto who started the Institute for historical review. He started it as an organization that’s main purpose is to challenge acceptable history on the holocaust. In 1996 an Islamic preacher distributed thousands of copies on a book called “The Holocaust Lie”. It was even given out to American and European schools and colleges. In this book it’s claiming that the real reason to the demise of so many Jews during the time was not because of concentration camps but due to the fact that the plague was running wild, and if you factor in the famine due to the war it would equal destruction.