The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism

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Kevin M. Levin
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"But recently, Poland’s government has been working to redirect the narrative."

Wait, where else have I heard this?

nytimes.com
Opinion | The New Wave of Holocaust Revisionism
Holocaust distortion is a threat to memory.
5:40 PM · Jan 30, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/opinion/holocaust-poland-europe.html

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https://archive.fo/MUKzv


WARSAW — The earth outside the tiny village of Treblinka, in eastern Poland, still bears traces of the death camp the Nazis built there in 1942. Close to 925,000 Jews were slaughtered at Treblinka, making it the second-largest Jewish killing field in the world after Auschwitz. On a sad, wet day in November, I wandered close to where Germans had burned the bodies of those murdered in the gas chambers nearby. At my feet on the damp ground, among the pebbles, I saw tiny white specks. They were small pieces of bones that still rise to the surface of the tainted earth of Treblinka after the rain.

The ashes there tell one of the many stories of the murdered Jews of Europe. But recently, Poland’s government has been working to redirect the narrative. That same day in November, I saw Magdalena Gawin, the Polish deputy minister of Culture and National Heritage at the time, speak at the Treblinka train station flanked by a Polish Army honor guard, a Roman Catholic bishop and other distinguished guests, including Yehoshua Ellis, an American-born rabbi. They were assembled in Treblinka, a couple of miles away from the former death camp of the same name, to unveil a monument honoring Jan Maletka, a 21-year-old Polish railroad worker. Mr. Maletka, Polish researchers say, was shot in 1942 by the Nazis for giving water to the Jews as they waited in locked cattle cars idling outside the camp.

At the ceremony that day, Ms. Gawin spoke of death and sacrifice. “It is estimated that 900,000 Jews died in Treblinka,” she said. “At the same time, we meet here to commemorate the death of one man, 900,000 Jews and one man.”

The scene that unfolded last November in Treblinka is one of the most vivid examples of a dangerous new threat that is spreading rapidly today in Eastern Europe: Holocaust distortion. A false equivalence of victimization is but one hallmark of the new Polish historical revisionism. Another hallmark is a state-sponsored effort that downplays antisemitic terror at the hands of the Poles, though such incidents are well documented in the historical record.

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[crickets]

1. Disturbing and despicable. nt

[keithbvadu2]

2. Some deny the Holocaust. Some proudly brag about it.

Some deny the Holocaust. Some proudly brag about it.

https://democraticunderground.com/10142813696

Texas School District Rebukes Holocaust Statement From Curriculum Director

Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who would try to deny it.

Yet Trump has his 6MWE and Camp Auschwitz followers. That's anti-denial in his own camp. (6 Million Wasn't Enough)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=6mwe
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15. Ike was right on the money!

The 6 million refers to the Shoah - and the Shoah is only a part of the Holocaust.

If Texas wants an alternative narrative on that period perhaps they should teach that the total toll in deaths was closer to 12 million when Poles; Russians: Romany; Slavs; and other "undesirables" are included in the slaughter list.

Perhaps Texas and similar states could teach these facts as the alternative Holocaust information and remind future citizens how the type of fascism currently used against women in Texas can grow into the evil genocide that has been repeated frequently since WW2.
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KKK boasting:

“We killed six million Jews the last time,” he answered. “Eleven million is nothing.”

https://www.bet.com/article/im76d6/cameras-capture-a-kkk-leader-threaten-to-burn-black-reporter

[Behind the Aegis]

3. This often happens when the victims are Jews.

Time and time again, I see stories about murders or attacks against Jewish people, and the people who redirect the narrative to other "victims", the attacker, or some savior of sorts. The Hyper-Cacher market is an excellent example, Hell, that entire event. Denial, disinformation, and distraction, these are the hallmarks of The Holocaust to too many!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

It seemed to me that the real objective of the lawsuit was not to rescue a man’s name or alter his reputation, but to frighten scholars of the Holocaust, to instill Poland’s pervasive atmosphere of fear into an entire discipline and to make students and educators think twice before choosing topics that would challenge the government-sponsored version of history. The idea of a right to national pride, advanced in court, is an ambiguous and legally undefined sentiment that effectively means any member of the Polish nation has the right to sue historians whose findings offend them.