The word holocaust is a word that we have heard at one time or another. It means different things
to different people. It is a word that brings up negative thoughts. Words like prejudice, death,
genocide, and world domination are associated with the Holocaust. The Holocaust is accepted
event in world history. For others however, the Holocaust is a hoax brought about by Jews,
exaggerated by politicians, and promoted by the media. These people are known as Holocaust
deniers or revolutionists. There is one particular denier by the name of Mark Weber who wrote an essay refuting the validity of the events that make up the Holocaust. Before we get into why the positions of Mr. Weber are invalid, lets first define what the Holocaust is. According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Holocaust was "the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II" (Webster). One point that is also
important to mention is that in Mr. Weber's own words, revolutionists "do not dispute the fact
that large numbers of Jews were deported to concentration camps and ghettos, or that many Jews
died or were killed during the Second World War." What revolutionists, like Mr. Weber, do claim is that there is evidence to support that there was no plan by the Germans to exterminate the Jew, there were no gas chambers that killed Jews by the hundreds, and that the estimated six million deaths are exaggerated. This essay will examine four points of evidence to refute these positions. The first piece of evidence will prove that the Holocaust was a planned genocide by
the Nazi party. The second will show that there were death camps that utilized gas chambers as a
method of mass murder. The third will prove that the death toll was not exaggerated, and the
fourth piece of evidence will refute the claims that testimony and eye witness accounts are
unreliable. The first piece of ...