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Adolf Hitler tried to destroy the Jews during World War II with his “Final Solution” (German Endiösung). The goal was to exterminate the Jews as a people.

As early as 1922, Hitler told journalist Josef Hell, “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews” (“The First Moments of Hitler’s Final Solution,” Smithsonian.com, Dec. 12, 2016).

Hitler’s 1925 book Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), which was a best-seller in Germany in the 1930s as Hitler came to power, blamed the Jews and Communists with the world’s troubles. He promoted the anti-Jewish myth that “Jews everywhere were engaged in an international conspiracy to achieve world domination.” Hitler called this “the Jewish peril.” He was convinced the Jews are racially inferior to the German “Aryans” and considered their continued existence to be a danger to Aryan racial purity. Mein Kampf was given freely to every German newlywed couple and every soldier fighting at the front. By the end of the war, about 10 million copies had been distributed.

Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and became the dictator in 1934. His party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but they were called Nazis. The Nazis believed they were a master race called Aryans and that other people were inferior.

In 1938, Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corp), the official publication of Hitler’s SS (Schutzstaffel), predicted in a front-page article “the definite end of Jewry in Germany and its complete extermination” (Leslie Stein, The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel, Kindle loc. 3503).

On December 12, 1941, at a meeting of 50 top Nazis it was announced that Hitler had “decided to make a clean sweep,” referring to the extermination of the Jews. This was written in the private journal of Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels. After that, “what started as uncertain and sporadic violence quickly turned into wholesale slaughter, complete with gas chambers and concentration camps. ... Six weeks later, SS chief Heinrich Himmler ... ordered the first Jews of Europe to Auschwitz” (“The First Moments of Hitler’s Final Solution,” Smithsonian.com, Dec. 12, 2016).

Hitler’s Holocaust (shoah in Hebrew) resulted in the murder of an estimated two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, including 90% of Polish Jews, a total of roughly six million. They were murdered by mobile killing units of the German SS dedicated to that task; they were worked to death under horrible conditions; and they were killed in extermination camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Chelmno.

In April 1945, top American army generals Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley visited the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald a few days after it was liberated by American soldiers.

“The scene was an indescribable horror even to the combat-hardened troops who captured the camp. Bodies were piled throughout the camp. There was evidence everywhere of systematic butchery. Many of the mounds of dead bodies were still smoldering from failed attempts by the departing SS guards to burn them. The stench was horrible” (“General Eisenhower,” uaforg.blogspot.com).

Eisenhower, Supreme Commander for all Allied Forces in World War II and the U.S. president from 1954-1961, said in a letter to his wife Mamie, “I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality, and savagery could really exist in this world.”

As a testimony to the perversity of the human spirit, there is a small but loud and persistent Holocaust Denial movement that is impervious to the facts.

An example is the Baptist preacher Steve Anderson, who says it was the Jewish Zionists themselves who invented the “myth of the Holocaust” to create the modern nation of Israel.

“That was the justification for going in and stealing land from the Arabs who lived there, and going in there and killing a bunch of Palestinians and kicking them out and putting them into a giant concentration camp known as Gaza, you know, or the West Bank. So we can see the motive to lie about it ... the modern nation of Israel is completely Satanic and it was something that Rothschild was behind and the nations and the world government, etc., which is all proven in my film Marching to Zion” (Anderson, “The Holocaust Hoax Exposed,” 31:32f, YouTube).

Anderson says that there are not “the thousands and thousands of Holocaust survivors” who were eyewitnesses of the Holocaust. He says that there are very few who were eyewitnesses of the cremations and the gas chambers, and that “they were lying; it is that simple.”

Holocaust Denial is right up there with Apollo Moon Program Denial as conspiratorial nuttiness.

That there was a massive destruction of Jews that was the product of Hitler’s “Final Solution” is a well-documented fact of history.

A total of 70 million people died in that horrible war, but Hitler had no “Final Solution” for the British or the French, not even for the Russians or the Polish (except Jewish Russians and Jewish Poles). The Holocaust was an organized attempt to destroy the Jews as a people from Europe, and had Hitler taken over the world, he would have carried out the plan globally.

Holocaust museums worldwide contain irrefutable evidence that the Holocaust occurred. Consider the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (Yad vashem is from the words translated “a place and a name” in Isaiah 56:5, and is a misapplication of that prophecy.) The museum maintains a 200-million-page database. As of 2017, the Shoah Database (shoah is Hebrew for Holocaust) contained the names and biographical details of 4.8 million of the six million Jews that died at the hands of the Nazis, with 50,000 new names collected annually (“A Year at Yad Vashem,” virtual tour, Nov. 19, 2017, YouTube). They have hundreds of thousands of photographs and 30,000 other artifacts, including audio, video, and written testimonies.

Thousands of surviving Jews stumbled out of Europe after the war and testified that their entire families had been slaughtered. Most of the Jews of Europe were gone.

According to Holocaust deniers, it’s all a lie and a massive conspiracy, but it’s the Holocaust Denial that is the lie, and that, my friends, is no small matter.