The other kind of Holocaust denial

Mask mandates, gas chambers...same thing, according to the QAnon Congresswoman.

Not all Holocaust deniers say the Holocaust didn’t happen.

Just bear with me here for a moment.

When most people think about “Holocaust denial” they imagine brown-shirted neo-Nazis who say Hitler never did anything wrong. Some might picture pseudo-historians like David Irving, who insist that stories of the Nazi genocide against the Jews of Europe were greatly exaggerated - you know how these people are - and here’s a book with footnotes and everything that proves it.

(Irving’s already shaky reputation as a historian was absolutely demolished when he sued Deborah Lipstadt for defamation, only for his serial dishonesty to be exposed during the trial. Accidentally calling the judge “Main Fuhrer” didn’t help. Yes, that actually happened.)

The other kind of Holocaust denial is perhaps more accurately called “Holocaust minimization.” The people who engage in it actually agree that the Nazi Holocaust happened exactly as shown in the historical record. The Nazis carried out the ultimate cri…