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There’s two types of holocaust deniers, as described to me by a holocaust studies professor:
The stupid ones. People who dismiss it as fake because numbers don’t add up, it just didn’t happen, there was a coverup, whatever bullshit.
The scary ones. The holocaust didn’t happen because they didn’t finish the job.
It used to be mostly the former, but as time goes on, the line is less distinct as we see a resurgence in hate groups more extreme than the last. So imagine the two combining into a version of “it didn’t happen because some got away.”
Side note: if you want an extraordinarily dark and depressing read, Klee, Dressen, and Riess’s The Good Old Days pulls together reports, correspondence, postcards etc from Nazis detailing some of the worst atrocities, and they just wrote some of this shit back to their families. That book haunts me.