The Importance of Holocaust Revisionism, a Reply By Thomas
Dalton, Ph.D for Veterans Today In the past two weeks, Veterans
Today has published three pieces on Holocaust revisionism by
Alan Hart, and one set of reflections by Jim Dean and Paul
Eisen. Any discussion of this topic is welcome, given its
central importance in American life today. However, Hart, in
particular, perpetuates some false and misleading ideas about
the matter, and thus a reply is called for. Let me begin with a
few points that Hart has correct. There are, in fact, three
essential elements to the event called the Holocaust: (1)
intention to mass murder the Jews, by Hitler and the Nazi elite;
(2) the use of gas chambers; and (3) the 6 million deaths. If
any one of these three should undergo substantial revision,
then, technically speaking, we no longer have “The Holocaust”—at
least, not in any meaningful sense. (Broadly speaking, of
course, any mass fatality is a holocaust.) Holocaust revisionism
contends that, not one, but all three of th