revisionism

revisionism

Revisionists are a group of people who are different from you and me.   They enjoy eating meals, spending time with friends, and some even go to church, but these reasons do not make them different.   The major differene is that they do not believe that the Holocaust ever happened.   Some people may think, "How can this be?"   There are literaly hundreds of books, magazine articles, and web sites to show the facts of the Holocaust, yet some people still don't believe it ever occurred.   And these revisionist also have web sites.   While online these revisionists let there opinions be known to anyone that is willing to listen, and each site uses a slightly different form of persuation.
The first site consisted of one man's explanation of why he became a revisionist.   The article begins with a the writer discussing how the word Nazi can no longer be used because today's revisionists don't wear uniforms or do any "funny saluting."   It is said that the revisionist are objects of riticual because they are not reverent to the Holocaust.   In a way this is understandable.   It they don't believe something, how can they be reverent toward it?   On the other hand, how can they not believe it?  
Next, the writer has found evidence that shows that the gas chambers may not have been exactly what they were believed to be.   He claimed that he "assumed" that it was some type of nerve gas.   In reality it was either cyanide or carbon monoxide.   He said that the effects that the gas chamber was supposed to have on the Jews are not the effects that cyanide or carbon monoxide has.   This caused him to look farther, and he found many other statements the were not correct.   After this, he encoureges people to start questioning the Holocaust.  
His style of persuation is very deeply imbedded.   First of all, he is almost rational in the way he claims that the revsionists are not Nazi.   He even gives a few examples explaining the differences.   Also, towards the end of his writing, he encourges...