Cartoons mocking Holocaust prove a flop with Iranians

[Watser?]

Turns out the Iranian public is smarter than their political leadership. Most of them do believe the Holocaust is a historical fact and are not interested in the cartoon exhibit denying it.

Cartoons mocking Holocaust prove a flop with Iranians
By Angus McDowall in Tehran

An exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust, some suggesting it was fabricated or exaggerated, has been a flop in Tehran. It drew audiences of fewer than 300 a day in its first week and now, three weeks after sparking international furore when it opened, attracts just 50 people a day.

Most of those approached in central Tehran said they had not heard of the exhibition and insisted the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis was a historical fact. "I'm sure the Holocaust was true - I've heard all about it from newspapers and television," said a housewife from a religious family. "I don't know why some say it didn't happen."
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[JackDog]

I don't understand why nobody is allowed to question the official story of the "holocaust." You'll go to jail for questioning it in Canada and much of Europe, which makes no sense to me. If the official story is true, why not allow research on the subject? We all know that history is written by the victors, and we also know that that history is typically one-sided. The official story has too many holes to be 100% true, and even the stories proven to be lies (human skin lampshades, soap made from people, etc.) are still presented as fact on television, in movies, newspapers, and history books.

[Shelli]

What the hell? When are people going to graduate from kindercare?? :rolleye1:

[Watser?]

I don't understand why nobody is allowed to question the official story of the "holocaust." You'll go to jail for questioning it in Canada and much of Europe, which makes no sense to me. If the official story is true, why not allow research on the subject? We all know that history is written by the victors, and we also know that that history is typically one-sided. The official story has too many holes to be 100% true, and even the stories proven to be lies (human skin lampshades, soap made from people, etc.) are still presented as fact on television, in movies, newspapers, and history books.

Research on the subject is allowed AFAIK. There is only one case of a human skin lampshade I think, but there were pictures of stacks of shoes and other personal possesions. I don't think these details are what matter anyway. Personally I think the ban on questioning it here should be abolished, but it served a purpose for a while in Germany and the former occupied countries after all the Nazi propaganda.

[ChuckF]

I don't understand why nobody is allowed to question the official story of the "holocaust." You'll go to jail for questioning it in Canada and much of Europe, which makes no sense to me. If the official story is true, why not allow research on the subject? We all know that history is written by the victors, and we also know that that history is typically one-sided.
Who were the "victors" in the holocaust?
The official story has too many holes to be 100% true, and even the stories proven to be lies (human skin lampshades, soap made from people, etc.) are still presented as fact on television, in movies, newspapers, and history books.
Ok, assuming said stories are not true, and they stopped being presented in movies, newspapers, and history books. What does that change about the holocaust?

[Clutch Munny]

Questioning the Holocaust is not illegal in Canada. If that's your idea of a factual claim, you're not the right person to be carefully limning the historical facts about Germany's extermination campaign against Jews (among others). Even outright Holocaust denial -- see how much stronger that is than "questioning"? -- is not illegal.

Systematically saying that Jews want to take over the world and blaming Jews for problems in a way reasonably construed as inciting hate against them -- or any ethnic group -- may be prosecuted as hate crimes, though. I suspect you're confusing the latter sort of crime with the former sort of non-crime.

[Watser?]

Hmmm, you are right Clutch, it is denial that is illegal here. But I can't think of many cases when it was enforced.

[Freddy]

From the many first person accounts I have read by Holocaust survivors (children and adults), a camp commandant, camp medical doctors, and liberating soldiers of camps and records left by the Nazis it would be immpossible to question the Holocaust. People who question the Holocaust are simply intellectually lazy. Every person who has questioned the Holocaust has been proven wrong by the facts of history. Over 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, with 5 million being non-Jews. The Japanese in the Hidden Holocaust murdered even more millions, including Chinese, Burmese, Filipinoes, Koreans, Manchurians, Russians and other Asians. What is sad is that the US government was mainly responsible for keeping it hidden from the world.

http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/hoess-memoirs/