Irving is being tried for Holocaust denial.How these medieval beliefs and freedom of expression cohere in west
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While we don't want to "ban books" or "burn books" it should be established in schools that Nazi Germany did kill 12 million people in the concentration camps, and while the Nazi's burned books,  and we don't do that here in the West,  in modern society,  we still recognize that will some people have a right to be an @ss, they are wrong, and the established history is just that, an established history.\n\nLets present both sides.  The one side is a piece of sh*t, and the other side is a) hitler wanted it, and b) people went through it and saw it with their eyes.
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the Holocaust and Christianity.
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Those ideas are all wrong.There's no such thing like genocide.And this should better be left to historians to answer.it's always easy to vilify but what's important is that if you claim such things, you have to have a basis of your idea. Talking is not enough. You must base your ideas with documents (The real ones).
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the Nazis:\n"November 28 1938: Police decree pertaining to the appearance of Jews in public issued: Restrictions in the freedom of movement and travel, etc. "
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Everything. \nMcCarthy sort of mimicked what they did during the Salem Witch Trials. Everyone was a witch (or a Communist, in McCarthy's case) until they proved that they weren't. Often, they couldn't prove that they weren't. I know from studying Dorothy Parker, a writer during the McCarthy era, she was put on the Blacklist of celebrities, so it was hard to get jobs.  Just as in The Crucible, reputations are damaged.\nIn short, The Crucible is Arthur Miller's way of sort of passively protesting what Joeseph McCarthy was doing, using history. It's sort of like the "you can tell the future with the past."
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I don't think there's specific cases as to why the denial is legal.  As you said, freedom of speech is why.  That's the same reason there's racist people, homophobes, and crazy religious fanatics.
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Well, the Jews committed the heinous crime of rebelling against the Romans- at the height of the power of the Roman empire th Jews, led by Bar Kochba who was the disciple of Rabbi Akivah, they succeeded in defeating the Romans and re-establishing a Jewish state.\n\nTheir success wa short lived- the Romans sentr an overwhelming force to retake the area and after two years the rebellion was over and Roman power re-established.  The Romans wanted to make sure that nothing similar ever happened.  They killed Rabbi Akivah and all other seniour Rabbis that had a significant following, razed jewsih and destroyed the temple.  They then exiled the Jews, hoping to disperse them across the empire and prevent them form forming a cohesive unit.  The Jews left in Israel were impoverished and downtrodden- the Romans changing the name of the province to Philistinna to punish the Jews, as they knew that the Philistines were a historic enemy of the Jews.\n\nAs for HItler- he was a proponent of scientific racism- under that thinking various race groups had reached different levels of evolution.  In his thinking- the Aryans were the most advanced race, followed by the Japanese and the other Mongoloid races (Chinese etc.)  He put the "mud races' at the bottom- including Jews, gypsies and blacks- with the slaves and some other groups just above them.  For the "mud races" he advocated genocide since they could only contaminate the gene pool, the other less advanced races were to be relegated to slave labour.  racial anti-semitism has been disproved continuously- but there are still many neo-Nazis who like to follow it to give them a false sense of superiority (take a look at how many neo-Nazi and right wing organisations represent the poor/unemployed and failed member sof society!)
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My great grandfather escaped from Auswitz nazi death camps and I lived with this history in my own family. I am no genious or nothing like that but I thought I'd take a stab at it since its part of my own families history.\n\nEconomic _- well, it was WWII! It got the united States out of the depression because we made bullets and guns and war stuff that the world bought!\nIt destrpyed all of Europe and so Europe was in an economic crisis and suddenly the US was quite prosperous and Europe was hurting.\n\nJapans at that time was in total economic ruin especially after Heroshima and Naggasaki.\nJapanieze products were the joke of the entire industry untill Dr. Edwards Demming came on the scene and single handedly resurrected the entire japanieze economy.\n\nSocial, well, at that time everyone for a while totally sympothized with the Jews across the board except for the British and the Arab countries.\nSo on a social scale Jews were more accepted than before by Allied countries.\n\nPoliticle- this was the time when David bengurian proclaimed the national rebirth of the nation of ISREAL! the British faught tooth and nail to prevent this as did the Arab countries with the United nations. But eventually world wide sympothy won out and the Jews gained their own homeland, Isreal. this was also a time of mutch internation reform concerning war and the geneiva hate convention laws. many new laws were inacted to help prevent such occurances again! we hope.\n\nReligeous- The Jews for the first time in decades were free to worship their own way. Though not widly accepted, the jewish faith was finally able to be freely expressed by Jews world wide though some anti sematic jewish factions still existed especially in the united States.\n\nmy great grandfather feared for my families security here in the US so he sahved his beard, wore a suit and dropped the Orthodox faith to help save us and we were all raised regular christians. All because of the anti semitism that still existed here even after WWII. I never had a barmitsva, nor was raised in the jewish way but my family is bloodline Jewish. I still till this day wonder about my own Jewish roots.\n\nIn the words of my grandpa- "We must never forget the Holocost!\n\nHere's a little fun fact for you.\nDid you know that the term Holocost did not come from Europe?\nNo one in Europe ever termed that time period of the nazi's demonic reign of terror the Holocost.\n\nThe term Holocost was coined actually by America.\n\nSo there you go, a bit of history lesson for ya.
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History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed.  Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those with out Jesus.  However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books before they address their pews and chat rooms.\n\n    Considering that Christianity has thus far been incapable of producing an unbiased, educated follower which speaks the truth, (I haven’t encountered any), I have been forced to dispel the myth by writing this essay.  It is not until I bring up his speeches, my personal info on the Nazi regime and their tactics that a Christian will begin to question what their clergy told them. (I am the offspring of a German soldier.  My Opa served under Hitler in WW2 and my father was raised during the time of the Nazi regime.  This is important information to take into consideration for I am privy to some info that most Americans do not know.  It is common for American media and education institutions to lie to their citizens concerning Nazi Germany.)  So, in presenting this information I must break it into four parts: 1) Facts about Hitler and his involvement with the Church.  2) How the Church was the catalyst for anti- Semitism.  3) Facts concerning how the Nazi regime drilled these beliefs into Germanic society.  4) Quotes Hitler made which prove he had a disdain for atheism/occultism, upheld his Christian faith, and hated Jews due to his Christianity.\n\nHitler’s involvement with the Church:\n\na) Hitler was baptized as Roman Catholic during infancy in Austria.\n\nb) As Hitler approached boyhood he attended a monastery school.  (On his way to school young Adolf daily observed a stone arch which was carved with the monastery’s coat of arms bearing a swastika.)\n\nc) Hitler was a communicant and an altar boy in the Catholic Church.\n\nd) As a young man he was confirmed as a “soldier of Christ.”  His most ardent goal at the time was to become a priest.  Hitler writes of his love for the church and clergy: “I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals.  As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.”  -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)\n\ne) Hitler was NEVER excommunicated nor condemned by his church.  Matter of fact the Church felt he was JUST and “avenging for God” in attacking the Jews for they deemed the Semites the killers of Jesus.\n\nf) Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were given VETO power over whom the pope could appoint as a bishop in Germany, Spain and Italy.  In turn they surtaxed the Catholics and gave the money to the Vatican.  Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: “The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.  This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie.”  Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933, writing to the Nazi Party\n\ng) Hitler worked CLOSELY with Pope Pius in converting Germanic society and supporting the church.  The Church absorbed Nazi ideals and preached them as part of their sermons in turn Hitler placed Catholic teachings in public education.  This photo depicts Hitler with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin.  It was taken On April 20, 1939, when Orsenigo celebrated Hitle
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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You are wrong on so many levels. To begin with, it very much is allowed to research the holocoust in europe and the usa and even to deny it, if that is what you wish. In ONLY ONE COUNTRY is it illegal to deny the holocaust. Not in all europe, and not in the usa... \nIf you wish to be ignorant then you can continue to deny historical facts, but if hundreds of thousands of testimony from various individuals involved, including survivors, those who ran the camps, those who transported jews etc, Thousands of films and photos of camps, victims etc. And finally the camps themsleves still exist.. If that doesnt convince you.. then I feel sorry for you..
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There are quite a few facts in this book of fiction. The Catholic church definitely carried on a campaign against the old pagan folk beliefs. This was done over a period of several centuries from the time that Constantine adopted Christianity through the campaigns against witches (which continued under protestants in the Salem witch trials). The fourth and fifith centuries correspond to the time when orthodox Christianity (the Catholic church) was trying to fight both the Arians of Spain, but also the pagans of northern Europe and Germany. The number of people killed during these pogroms ishard to determine accurately.
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Anti-semitism perhaps?
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u my friend r quite mistaken. i am an orthodox  jew, im the first to admit it and very proud of it. what ur saying now is not only rediculous but insulting towards the christians and catholics alike. hitler, may his name be erased, was a psycopath. he was a monster who was out of mind and barely human. his beliefs and morals (or lack there of) had nothing to do with christianity. his focus was about killing the jew en route to creating the perfect nation. learn some history.
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"when he denies holocaust he must go to jail"\nCan you cite ANY examples of this? My heavens, you are much more likely to find yourself in hot water for criticizing the homosexual agenda in this country. The problem with Holocaust denial is twofold: one, factually speaking it's right up there with those who say the moon landing never occurred, and two, those who believe that in every case I have ever seen are racists of the most virulent sort. In the US, but biggest concentration of holocaust deniers can be found in universities. In Europe, it's the hoi poloi. Also, it can be found anywhere you find concentrations of Muslims. The head of Fatah wrote his dissertation on holocaust denial (he is a denier himself), the president of Iran has public questioned the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel. It is the talk amongst the conspiracy minded (that is almost all) in the middle east.
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If you mean the holocaust, its something that Jews made up so they could rule the media.
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It is a forgery. Propaganda designed by the writers to prejudice the reader against Jewish people.