Alternate Historical Viewpoints Vs Ant-Semitic Propaganda
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historyisfun community I belong to, some bright soul posted this article denying that the Germans made the fat of Jewish victims into soap during WWII. Despite the fact that this article actually presents what sounds like a rational discussion- one might notice that it doesn't give any actual FACTS whatsoever to support the argument that this was all just a rumor and it never really happened.
Furthermore, the ending paragraph of the article is this:
The "human soap" story demonstrates anew the tremendous impact that a wartime rumor, no matter how fantastic, can have once it has taken hold, particularly when it is disseminated as a propaganda lie by influential individuals and powerful organizations. That so many intelligent and otherwise thoughtful people could ever have seriously believed that the Germans distributed bars of soap brazenly labeled with letters indicating that they were manufactured from Jewish corpses shows how readily even the most absurd Holocaust fables can be -- and are -- accepted as fact.
Which just screams "Racist propaganda" to me.
I'm not Jewish. I never had any relative die in a concentration camp- but I'm very strongly offended by those who deny that this dark point of history happened. I expressed my opinion that this was propaganda, not history- but the majority of commentaries seem to disagree.
The article, incidentally, was written by Mark Weber : The Institute For Historical Review is the organization that delivers this... material.
Am I wrong here, or am I the sole voice of reason? I can't be the only one who sees this as blatant Anti-Semitic BS, can I? Opinions?
historyisfun community I belong to, some bright soul posted this article denying that the Germans made the fat of Jewish victims into soap during WWII. Despite the fact that this article actually presents what sounds like a rational discussion- one might notice that it doesn't give any actual FACTS whatsoever to support the argument that this was all just a rumor and it never really happened.Furthermore, the ending paragraph of the article is this:
The "human soap" story demonstrates anew the tremendous impact that a wartime rumor, no matter how fantastic, can have once it has taken hold, particularly when it is disseminated as a propaganda lie by influential individuals and powerful organizations. That so many intelligent and otherwise thoughtful people could ever have seriously believed that the Germans distributed bars of soap brazenly labeled with letters indicating that they were manufactured from Jewish corpses shows how readily even the most absurd Holocaust fables can be -- and are -- accepted as fact.
Which just screams "Racist propaganda" to me.
I'm not Jewish. I never had any relative die in a concentration camp- but I'm very strongly offended by those who deny that this dark point of history happened. I expressed my opinion that this was propaganda, not history- but the majority of commentaries seem to disagree.
The article, incidentally, was written by Mark Weber : The Institute For Historical Review is the organization that delivers this... material.
Am I wrong here, or am I the sole voice of reason? I can't be the only one who sees this as blatant Anti-Semitic BS, can I? Opinions?