Best Mainstream Pieces of Evidence
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 2:43 pm
If you were being intellectually honest, what do you think that the strongest arguments and forms of evidence are in suggesting that the Holocaust might have happened?
Even if you don't find it persuasive, what do you think is the strongest, and conversely the weakest?
If I were evaluating the strongest aspects of the denier arguments, I would say that the forensic chemistry tests could be the most peruasive although it relies on very technical aspects of chemistry and sensitivity of testing methods that few people would truly understand.
Persuasive isn't the same thing as being grounded in truth though, so the ones that have caused me to "revise" my understanding of the Holocaust was how the T4 program was started by a father asking to euthanize his child and then slipped wildly out of control.
The weakest argument by far is the total dismissal of the tens of thousands of eyewitness testimonies from both survivors and perpetrators. And the denial that tens of thousands of survivors went on record too is basically undeniable but still somehow disregarded by this community. I see it as basically impossible that tens of thousands of people with personal experience with the Holocaust could have all aligned on many core details even if they conspired. How would they have gotten their stories straight?
Even if you don't find it persuasive, what do you think is the strongest, and conversely the weakest?
If I were evaluating the strongest aspects of the denier arguments, I would say that the forensic chemistry tests could be the most peruasive although it relies on very technical aspects of chemistry and sensitivity of testing methods that few people would truly understand.
Persuasive isn't the same thing as being grounded in truth though, so the ones that have caused me to "revise" my understanding of the Holocaust was how the T4 program was started by a father asking to euthanize his child and then slipped wildly out of control.
The weakest argument by far is the total dismissal of the tens of thousands of eyewitness testimonies from both survivors and perpetrators. And the denial that tens of thousands of survivors went on record too is basically undeniable but still somehow disregarded by this community. I see it as basically impossible that tens of thousands of people with personal experience with the Holocaust could have all aligned on many core details even if they conspired. How would they have gotten their stories straight?