Holocaust Denial: Implausible Ignorance Or Political Strategy

Holocaust Denial: Implausible Ignorance Or Political Strategy

Alex Faulkner
Slimak
LA2

Holocaust Denial: Implausible Ignorance or Political Strategy

It is 1942, and the world is at war with the axis powers. It has been nine years since the Nazi party seized power of the German government, and at the epicenter of the evil Nazi machine lays its brilliantly twisted leader, Adolf Hitler. His anti-Semitic views have long been known (along with a hatred of those who he considered to be almost sub-human), and plans for his ‘final solution’ are beginning to pick up. Over the next three years, well over six million Jews, Romani’s, disabled, homosexual, and Jehovah’s witnesses will be murdered at German concentration camps.
Following the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the liberation of the concentration camps one of the largest investigations ever documented began. The atrocities that would soon be known as the Holocaust were made known to the public through countless personal stories, witness accounts, and media, and public outcry for the retribution of the survivors ensued. The Jews were granted permission to start a new nation called Israel in the location of their ‘God given’ homeland. The location of this homeland was the same as the current nation of Palestine, and news of the creation of Israel outraged much of the Middle East.
Fast forward to modern times and we see the rise of power of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. To give a bit of background, Ahmadinejad is the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and it is rumored that he was one of the students who seized the US embassy in Tehran. To put it delicately, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not a fan of the West, especially the United States, because of its part in the creation of the state of Israel. His goals lie completely in trying to take back the land that was taken from them.
While addressing students at the University of Tehran in...