First off, I find the trial of Leuchter very ... odd. The first thing that the judge does is condemn Leuchter for his "lack of qualification" to be presenting such evidence.

How exactly would this not be an issue? If he has no idea what he's doing, that's kinda an issue. It's the same reason that no one takes Graham Hancock seriously; he has no idea what he's talking about.

On top of that, you do mention that "holocaust denial" is illegal in several countries. Have you stopped to think about that? This is the only historical event, the "belief" in which is enforced by law and cannot, by law, be questioned. Why?

The list of the countries where it is illegal is quite small, and most cases seem to be in Germany. If you really have to ask yourself why Germany would be so against Holocaust denial, then there's nothing more I can say.

The blatant pursuit and persecution of holocaust heretics alone lends credence to the fact that there is a powerful interest in keeping the official story intact in public opinion.

Pretty sure it also has to do with Holocaust denial often going hand-in-hand with antisemitism and neo-nazism.

but there is not a shred of any document which mentions mass extermination or gas chambers.

Lolwut?

The claim that most of the gassing chambers were demolished before the Allies liberated the camps is rather.... convenient.

Or it would be, if not for the fact they we have blatant evidence they did just this

Such as, why were fake holes built into the Auschwitz chamber after the war, and why are they being shown to the public falsely as the portals through which gas was thrown?

Are these the same rooms that had fairly significant amounts of cyanide residue in them?

The swimming pool? You realize there are conflicting witness reports about Auschwitz, many claim that there was a theater and the swimming pool was for use by the inmates.

Important clarification; do we know anything about the people giving said testimonies, aside from them being holocaust survivors? It seems far more likely that there is some other reason (i.e. false memories), especially considering the overwhelming opinion by both other inmates and former Nazis (even reports written at the time). Also, you do know that the swimming pool and all that was literally made so it could be put in a propoganda video), right? You can even find the video if you look around. Also, how is this somehow unbelievable? The express purpose of the video was to hide the fact that they were actively and brutally murdering people from the general public (and also from people who would be sent there later).

Furthermore, you have also failed to mention several key events leading up to the war. Firstly, the Jewish declaration of war on Germany in 1933.

If you're talking about this, then you clearly have no clue about context. The closest that there was to "war" was a short Jewish boycott of German goods, due to the pretty blatantly anti-semetic laws and practices in place at the time (for reference, the Dachau concentration camp was opened four days earlier). The Nazis saw this as an act of aggression, which was why the Daily Express (which surprise! was a tabloid) sensationalized the title to claim Judea declared war. That's also why you never see the article, just the headline.

Not to mention that Hitler was not even at the height of his power in 33, he didn't even have total control over the military at that time has he had only recently become Chancellor. How could he have organized the round up and extermination of that many people in such a short amount of time?

First of all, because he had enough power pretty much as soon as the Reichstag fire happened, since he used it as a way to enact laws that essentially removed many civil liberties from the German population. Also, it doesn't take 10 years to build a single concentration camp.

According to this[1] page the first German act against Jews was

Is that the exact page that explained the article's context? Did you even read it?

You have also failed to mention anything concerning the resulting Haavara Agreement[2] , which again, conflicts with the mythology of a murderous Hitler.

I go into detail about it in other comments in this thread.

• First of all, that doesn't magically mean the Wannsee Conference never happened, and the same with Operation Reinhard. Secondly, the plan became impossible to implement after Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

It is no secret that Hitler did not particularly like the Jewish people, and that he wanted them out of Germany.

And the winner of understatement of the year is /u/tinkert0y.

As far as eyewitness testimony, there is a lot of controversy due to the fact that there are so many conflicting accounts.

Considering that 99% of the testimony (both survivor and Nazi) seems to agree with each other, I question where you go this from.

Some witnesses still claim there were gassings at camps which historians have concluded that no such thing occurred.

[Citation needed]

I have serious doubts about SS witnesses, given that so many hundreds of thousands of their former brothers in arms were hanged, starved to death in POW camps after the war, hauled off to gulags, or hunted down by the Mossad.

Frankly, this just sounds like a cop out. It's like arguing the moon landing was faked, but refusing to accept any proof from NASA. Also, you don't account for the many, many personal journals that were recovered, that agree with the rest of the testimonies and pieces of evidence.

If you take away all of the emotional circumstantial narratives, and stick to things that are empirically verifiable, you find that there is really very little that holds water.

Which is extremely ironic, given that you've outright claimed the Leuchter report to be fact.

http://exposing-the-holocaust-hoax-archive.blogspot.com/2009/10/human-skin-lampshades-and-nazi-shrunken.html[3]

First of all, the site is actually called "exposingtheholocausthoax.com"? That will definitely not be biased in the slightest. Secondly, their entire argument seems to hinge on one single sentence from a single testimony. That's nowhere near as important as most Holocaust deniers seem to claim it was.

There are plenty of other sources on that topic alone if that doesn't satisfy you.

Such as? And please don't link me something like Stormfront.