What do the deniers of the Holocaust advocate and why Mark Zuckerberg says they should not be censored on Facebook

As a Jew, he said that he thought this thought "deeply offensive", but rejected that the accounts of those who broadcast it should be eliminated.

Researchers believe that there were between 5 and 6 million Jews who died in Europe during the Second World War.

"I think there are things in which people are wrong, I do not think they're wrong intentionally," he said on the site Recode Wednesday.

But what are the main badumptions of the Holocaust negacionsitas? Lipstadt exhibits 4 main ones.

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1. Auschwitz was not a site of extermination

L & # 39; One of the main postulates of the Holocaust deniers focuses on the idea that there was never a Nazi-led extermination camp at Auschwitz Poland.

They claim that it was not an extermination camp, says Lipstadt, author of the bestselling "Holocaust Denial."

Documents compiled after World War II revealed the plans of Nazi Germany to create the Auschwitz gas cameras in which the extermination of the Jews was carried out in this concentration camp .

But the deniers claim that the chambers were actually disinfection chambers or morgues. Others claim that they were in fact anti-aircraft shelters.

"This argument does not take into account the fact that these alleged shelters were too small to house detainees in the camp and were more than one kilometer from the guards' quarters. "Others claim that thousands of Auschwitz Jews died of an epidemic of typhus ." The documentation was fabricated

as . Extermination of the Jews is a manufactured "myth" is another of the postulates

They argue that documentary evidence was falsified at the end of the second world war. also that " planted thousands of these fake in many different file collections (exactly in the right file and in the right sequence). )

And they demand as a maximum "proof" that there is an order from Hitler that authorized the destruction of the Jews.

Faced with this, Lipstadt indicates that the badertion that all the documentation of the Holocaust was made by forgers is "incredibly improbable."

"This does not explain why these allegedly incredibly talented counterfeiters failed to produce the only sheet of paper that Holocaust deniers claim to be" proof "that the genocide took place," that is, " that is, Hitler's own order

3. Many Jews did not die, they left

Another postulate defended by those who deny the Holocaust is that many Jews survived the war.

The explanation that they give to their disappearance from Germany is that they have lost track of it. them when they went to places like the Soviet Union or the United States, "says Lipstadt.

"They claim that in these countries there were already so many Jews ," says the researcher

One of the advocates of this theory, the American professor Arthur Butz, states that many survivors of the Jewish war have not yet contacted their parents because they had "bad marriages."

After the war, they found other partners, established better relationships , started a new life and did not correct the record, defends Butz.

But Lipstadt sees this as an "unlikely explanation" "

4. The confessions are not valid

Otto Ohlendorf, commander of one of the Einsatzgruppen units, openly testified that between June 1941 and 1942, his Einsatzgruppe had murdered 90 000 people

but the deniers reject this type of confession that states that the "Final Solution" or the "Jewish Question" as they are known from Nazi Germany's plan for Jews, was part of the program of 39; Hitler.

They claim that the confessions were tortured so they must be ignored.

"They say that those who confessed knew that to admit would lead to a death sentence, for which they would not have confessed under duress ," says Lipstadt

However, the professor points out that this would defeat the fact that some of the most detailed confessions were written after the authors had or sentenced to death.

Among the deniers, some claim that confessions came after being subjected to a "propaganda flow" that predisposed them, in addition to "becoming victims of deception."

What did Zuckerberg say?

Mark Zuckerberg's controversial words were produced in an interview with the technology site Recode .

When asked about his fight policy the fake news on Facebook, Zuckerberg mentioned as an example those who deny the Holocaust.

"I find this deeply offensive," said journalist Kara Swisher

"But in the end, I think our platform should eliminate that, because I think that there are things in which people are mistaken "said Zuckerberg

., Z uckerberg issued a statement to Recode [19659005"PersonallyIfindthedenialoftheHolocaustdeeplyoffensiveandIdonothavetheintentionofdefendingthepeoplewhodenyit"heargued

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