TIL during World War II, President Dwight D. Einsenhower predicted that people would try to deny the holocaust ever happened, and therefore ordered people to take as much photographs of the Nazi crimes as possible in order to avoid such attempts.

First of all, please don't put words in my mouth with strawman type arguments. Is there anywhere in my post where I say that Jews were never persecuted or killed / died?. No one in their right mind beleives that Jews weren't persecuted / killed or unfairly treated. If you think that revisionist think that Jews got a free ride during WWII, then please show me the link. And yes, the allies were indirectly responsibly for the conditions in the camps. This obviously wasn't their intent, and the point to as to why I brought that up was to show you that those bodies were not a deliberate attempt by the Germans to starve them to death. That is why I brought up the indisputable fact that an injured Jew was nursed back to health in Auschwitz (you still haven't given me an explaination as to why he was spared). My point here was that the Germans treated the inmates as assets during their internment. Why would they waste their time fixing his leg, when the camps main goal was to exterminate them?

And as for the Gas chambers at Dachau, sorry to break it to you, but if you were told that there were gas chambers at Dachau, then you were told a blatant lie. If you don't believe me, then maybe you will believe the United State Holocaust Museum:

There is no credible evidence that the gas chamber in Barrack X was used to murder human beings

Now I have also noticed that you have not addressed any of the points that I had made in my original post. I believe that that are valid and backed up with either a rational argument and / or with facts and direct quotes from the original sources. You have been snarky condescending and dismissive in your reply whereas I have tried to make you understand why I have come to the conclusions that I have.

I suspect that you will not address any of the points that I have (the Elie Wiesel one was especially eye opening for me the first time I read it in his book Night) and simply reply with more dismissive, ad-hominem rhetoric. That's OK, because, believe it not, it took me years to admit to myself that I was having doubts about the official story. Whenever I would come across a bit of evidence that just didn't add up, I would feel sick and I found that I would begin to second guess myself. I found myself thinking am I secretly a racist?, then I would counter with how can I be a racist when I have never met a Jew in my life? (I live in a 99.9% white town of 200,000). This is what is known as cognitive dissonance and is very hard to overcome. Like I said, it has literally taken me years to feel comfortable with my beliefs.

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