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Did Hitler ever try to gloss over the Holocaust by calling it "fake news"?

Posted - January 29, 2018

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  • 19937
    Fake news for a fake president. 
      January 29, 2018 7:14 AM MST
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  • 2658
    Many treated it as no news ..it might as well had been fake news to many... fake news
      January 29, 2018 9:26 AM MST
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  • 46117
    First of all, you have to be able to PRINT the news before it can be fake.  What was ever printed against Hitler?   Who printed and managed to LIVE to tell?

    But why date back to Hitler.  The same drama is being played out today as we speak by Trump's best ally.   The one he aspires to be exactly like.

    Someone who won't tolerate any news unless it glorifies him.   




    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at January 29, 2018 9:54 AM MST
      January 29, 2018 9:52 AM MST
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  • 22891
    probably since he was in denial about what he was doing
      February 14, 2018 5:52 PM MST
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  • 3719
    No. He did not.

    Nor was he "in denial".

    For a start the word 'holocaust' was applied with a capital 'H' AFTER the War by Jews who had survived the pogrom; but the phrase "fake news" was merely a puerile sneer invented by President Trump for far shallower ends in his election campaign.

    Hitler called it the "final solution" to his imagined "Jewish problem"; and the extermination camps were designed by his favourite architect, Albert Speer. The Nazis had originally been simply shooting their victims or gassing them with vehicle exhaust-fumes, but they realised it was both slow and inefficient from their twisted point of view, and had a deleterious effect on the soldiers carrying out these cold-blooded murders.

    The Nazis, with Josef Goebbels as the propaganda minister,  did not publicise what was happening in the concentration and extermination camps, but made no secret of trying to rid Germany and the countries they invaded, of the Jews - along with gypsies, coloureds and homosexuals. The progrom was central to their public policies and propaganda. Besides, it was impossible to cover up an event like Kristallnacht, and the more general driving of so many people from their homes, but it was fairly easy to hide their fate.

    Adolf Hitler and his entourage designed and presided over a truly appalling regime that systematically murdered at least SIX MILLION people, but let us also not forget Stalin and Mao between them killed even more by a mixture of political crack-downs, neglect and incompetence.  

      March 3, 2018 11:19 AM MST
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  • 14795
    Let's not forget that the English invented and first used concentration camps and that Israeli  Ariel Sharon killed Palestinian men ,women,children and babies in Isreals concentration camps when he was a General in the army  many tears ago...he never faced any war crimes...
      March 3, 2018 12:31 PM MST
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  • 3719
    Indeed, we must not forget such atrocities.

    I believe the concentration-camp was invented in the Boer War, but simply meant as it says, one that concentrates many prisoners in one place. They were not set up as industrial-scale killing-sites like the Nazi extermination-camps, though they make mass-murder such as you cite easier; but other regimes and sectarian or tribal wars have shown you don't need a concentration-camp to annhialate people.

    Humans are capable of appalling cruelty, and this aspect knows no ethnic, political, religious, national or other artificial boundary.
      March 3, 2018 12:46 PM MST
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  • 14795
    From what I read and impossible for me to know if it's true either.....Whinston Churchill was quite evil and had something to do with the boar camps.....men ,women childred and babies all killed of just left to rot...
    he to wanted to kill anyone born defective and even handicaped older people....

    I read last year a released Red Cross report about the Germans killing 6 million people being untrue....it said the real number was closer to a quarter of a million.....

    How can you believe any Goverment that constantly lies to its people....
      March 3, 2018 1:35 PM MST
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  • 16762
    Churchill, when he was Lord of the Admiralty, also sent the Tans into Ireland - an act of bastardry he was never called to account for. And refused to provide an escort for the Lusitania despite Germany threatening to sink her as she was carrying arms into Britain - because he wanted America to enter the War.
      March 3, 2018 6:58 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Im not sure what the Tans is ....do you mean the Black and Tans.....? 
    Why we are referred to as Great Britian I will never know.....Royalty and or governments of yesteryear were the most evil pigs ever.....

    To break strikes the government sent armed police kill starving miners that were protesting against scab labour .
    What England did to Austraila and its indiginous people is nothing more than genocide ,nearer home ,England did the most appalling things to the Irish stole part of their country and whined like babies when they retaliated not long before I was born.....
    Its not the English people that are evil......it's our leaders and royalty that need to pay recompense.....
    Mr Hitler got a bad name for himself ,but was he any worse than the English rulers......

    So called Lord Mountbaton was put in charge of Vietnam after the Second World War....he Armed the japennese army to police the Vietnamese people that they had just been slaughtering in their millions....
    Another mass murderer that the Irish kindly got rid of for us....
    History is horrifying. So much evil  is covered up by any one in power......
    They say a victorious army is evil.....how many German women were rapped by advancing Allied and Russian troops during WW11 I wonder....

    Was the Twin Towers self enflicted ....Tower 17 next to it was destroyed with demolition charges as both towers fell....they say also that the towers were helped on their way by demolition charges also...

    What a sick world we live in .The World being run by just twelve families doesn't help much either...
      March 4, 2018 2:47 AM MST
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  • 404
    no... Hitler took their guns . And so far..its not trump looking for gun control..is it? This post was edited by maggie at March 22, 2018 10:00 PM MDT
      March 22, 2018 9:59 PM MDT
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