Conspiracy Theory: The Holocaust Hoax

Conspiracy theories have become increasingly popular in the last few years. While conspiracy theories have been around for a while now, in the past couple of years they have been shown much more publicity which has lead to certain dangerous theories to become more popular. One particularly deplorable theory is the Holocaust Hoax. The main idea of the Holocaust Hoax is that the Holocaust never happened and it is just a cover up by Jewish people to elicit sympathy for them and help them keep control over the government. This conspiracy theory is just a thinly veiled excuse to have a reason for their anti-Semitism so that the believers of this hoax can feel like they aren’t bigoted. This conspiracy theory ignores how communities of people interact

It is a blatant disregard for the numerous accounts from survivors to the people who were actively fighting against the Nazis. Memoirs, such as Elie Wiesel, and personal stories shared from survivors, such as Eugene Black’s story, showed the atrocities faced by the Jewish people during World War II. These memoirs parallel each other in how the Jewish people went from being required to wear the Star of David, to being forced into Ghettos, and then finally being taken to concentration camps where they along with people of color, Romani people, disabled people, and homosexual people were murdered. In both Wiesel’s memoir and Eugene Black’s account they describe the transition from being forced to wear the Star of David, “The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it” (ch.1), to the horrors faced by the Jewish people in the concentration camps, “He was sent by train to the Little Camp at Buchenwald and then to Dora Mittelbau…rocks dug out from the tunnels for 12 to 14 hours at a time, without rest and on starvation rations”(p.5). In the Holocaust Encyclopedia on the website for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum it tells of the Nuremberg laws which was a law that stated that, “Jews are prohibited from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of ‘German or related blood’” (p.5). What this law shows is the hostility shown to Jewish people before the massacres occurred and demonstrates the anti-Semitism that led to genocide. It is impossible to deny the murder of millions of people when there are multiple reports and documentations of the concentration camps as well as the previous acts of aggression and murder that took place before the tunneling of Jewish people into the camps. One of these incidents is