*I’ve made green before by mixing blue and yellow.
I’m going to respond to whether or not I can determine if the Holocaust happened, despite the fact that I never experienced it, never saw it, nor did I even live during that time. How do I know it existed?
Perhaps I am just a believer.
A believer, yes. I cannot discount the thousands (perhaps more, I’m not exactly sure) of testimonies of victims of the Holocaust. Is it just coincidence that all of these people tell stories of similar experiences of the terror and death in concentration camps created by the German Nazis? What about the Nuremburg Trials, where high officials were charged for their taking part in the concentration camps? What about all of the pictures of concentration camp victims, most so starved they resembled walking skeletons? How can something of this immensity not have occurred when its influence is found in modern day literature, being the basis of Elie Wieself’s memoir Night, in several movies such as Stefan Ruzowitzky’s film The Counterfeiters. This assertion that it existed is found in how much the Holocaust has penetrated history, culture, and art.
Of course, someone can then ask me about mythical and magical stories that many people discard as completely untrue. How can I say that these stories did not occur?
Honestly, it’s a matter of science and time in the end. I am pretty skeptical of magic. I do not believe it because those are actions that are beyond human capabilities. However the Holocaust, an attempt to annihilate a human race by other humans is something people are able to do. Mechanically, a person can kill another person. There is a capacity for that. Also, I say it is time that convinces me that the Holocaust existed, because it was only 60-70 years ago. There are pictures, and these cannot have been digitally rehanced like many are now. The Holocaust did not happen hundreds of years ago. It’s recent enough so that we are still trying to assess it.
Holocaust denial is “ignorance x infinity”.
