Historians R Us

This blog is the property of the AP US History class at Pope John XXIII High School in Everett, MA, USA. Here students explore current events in America, while seeking to understand the historical roots of those events. At the same time, students are able to carry on classroom discussions in the cyber world.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Non-believers and Sinners unite to discuss- The Holocausts Existance


A government sponsored conference was held in Iran for those who do not believe in the Holocausts existence. The men and women attending discussed whether or not millions of Jews were murdered unjustly by the Nazis, and if gas chambers existed. The conference was held in Iran because the attendees could discuss the matter “away from Western taboos and the restriction imposed on them in Europe,” said Rasoul Mousavi, who is the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies. Mr. Mousavi's company organized this controversial event.
David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and current American Politician is a white supremacist to the extreme. He made remarks during the conference, and wrote a paper concerning the issue at hand. Mr. Duke claimed that he did not believe the Nazis would use such methods as gas chamber, or even concentration camps. He believes that more simple and less expensive methods would have been used. “Depicting Jews as the overwhelming victims of the Holocaust gave the moral high ground to the Allies as victors of the war, and allowed Jews to establish a state on the occupied land of Palestine,” this excerpt from Mr. Dukes paper further proves his views toward the situation.
Another well noted speaker during the conference was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is the Iranian President. Many of the men and women present agreed with all that the president had to say, and they praised him.
On the other hand, much of the West condemned this conference. They, like much of the rest of the world cannot deny that they Holocaust occurred, and that millions of Jews were murdered because of who they were, and what they believed in.
The Holocaust commenced during World War II. The war was begun because of a man named Adolf Hitler. He believed that all types of people that were inferior to the white man, the Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Disabled people, ect., should be obliterated. It seems unimaginable that one seemingly truthful and quite charismatic man should bring about such violence, and it is also remarkable that a group of people in today’s world does not believe that something like the Holocaust could occur.

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