How would you convince someone the Holocaust existed?

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Hey guys, I have a really bizarre question to ask. As the title says, imagine if I was one of the crazy people who think the Holocaust was one giant conspiracy, what would you do to try and convince me otherwise.

Keep in mind that I wouldn't be swayed by witnesses or historical accounts because that's all "part of the lie", and I wouldn't be affected by an appeal to logic or reason because I'm clearly insane. You'd need near-irrefutable proof to convince me that history isn't one giant Jewish-controlled conspiracy.

Oh, and sorry if this question is offensive, I just thought it would be an interesting thinking exercise, not trying to offend anyone.

 

[Ronarch]

At that point where evidence couldn't satisfy them there is no point in arguing. They won't be swayed from their ignorance if they won't accept physical proof. It'd be like arguing with a brick wall.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Slap them in the face and throttle them with the power of reason.

 

[Kopikatsu]

How do you convince someone that their belief in one God or another is wrong?

You can't. If someone is that dedicated to their belief, it's impossible to sway their opinion. It's best just to ignore them.

/Prepares flameshield

 

[Blue Hero]

Tell them to personally find and show me 6 million Jewish people. If they can't do it in 24 hours, the holocaust happened.

 

[Iman Shumpert]

Gonna go with the mass consensus and say that people are very stubborn in their beliefs. Very rare to sway someone's belief of something. If only we could send all these people to a camp where they could learn to concentrate and listen to reason.

 

[twistedmic]

If they wouldn't be swayed by eye-witness accounts, photographic or video evidence, then I'd be tempted to 'talk' some sense into them using this: The Sense Talking Stick

 

[WeAreStevo]

Umm...try telling this to the entire deceased side of my Paternal family tree. Everyone except my Great Grandpa and his immediate family made it out of Czechoslovakia alive.

As for your question, I'd punch you in the face for being a holocaust denier P.O.S.

Hypothetically though of course, I'm sure you're a respectable fellow OP.

 

[Dimitriov]

Hey guys, I have a really bizarre question to ask. As the title says, imagine if I was one of the crazy people who think the Holocaust was one giant conspiracy, what would you do to try and convince me otherwise.

Keep in mind that I wouldn't be swayed by witnesses or historical accounts because that's all "part of the lie", and I wouldn't be affected by an appeal to logic or reason because I'm clearly insane. You'd need near-irrefutable proof to convince me that history isn't one giant Jewish-controlled conspiracy.

Oh, and sorry if this question is offensive, I just thought it would be an interesting thinking exercise, not trying to offend anyone.

Uuuugh, take them on a tour of the death camps in Poland?

...and why would former Nazi's admit to having done these things if it wasn't true?

 

[Varitel]

If someone fervently believes that the Holocaust never happened, they won't respond to reason or evidence. This makes it highly unlikely that anyone will be able to convince them otherwise. You'd have a better chance of successfully teaching quantum physics to Shrödinger's cat.

 

[Thaluikhain]

If someone fervently believes that the Holocaust never happened, they won't respond to reason or evidence. This makes it highly unlikely that anyone will be able to convince them otherwise. You'd have a better chance of successfully teaching quantum physics to Shrödinger's cat.

Exactly. If people choose to deny, despite all the evidence, than there is nothing you can do.

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Oh, and there's no way you can bring up Holocaust denial without it being massively offensive to various people.

 

[dyre]

As there is a good deal of evidence in favor of the Holocaust existing, it is arguable that the burden of proof is on the person in denial to produce counter-evidence beyond "it's a Zionist/ New World Order lie." The world has met them more than halfway with diaries, video evidence, the ruins of Auschwitz, etc.

 

[Braedan]

The correct solution is to avoid contact with the crazy shithead and stay as far away from them as possible.

Since no evidence or witness accounts will work there is no other solution.

 

[lovest harding]

At that point where evidence couldn't satisfy them there is no point in arguing. They won't be swayed from their ignorance if they won't accept physical proof. It'd be like arguing with a brick wall.

Fact.
If this person simply refuses to believe evidence is evidence, I'd rather not frustrate myself.

 

[Zeema]

Punch them in the mouth
then in the nuts

Rational arguments don't usually work on those kinds of people, if it did there would be no one like that.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Well in a few easy steps.
1: Does this smell like chloroform to you?
2: Torture chamber.
3: ??????
4: Profit and sense.

 

[ACman]

It's like arguing with people that think the moon-landing was faked.

Or Creationists.

Or people who think homeopathy works.

Or people that think that Climate Scientist are part of a socialist plot to bring down capitalism.

Or Glenn Beck.

No matter how much evidence that you hold in front of their eyeballs they will always fall back to people and sources that agree with their world view.

 

[Nyaliva]

Take them out the back of Auschwitz and show them the piles of corpses with jewish stars on them, mass buried with bullet holes in the backs of their heads. Or perhaps someone put them there to keep up the lie. The things some people will do to lie huh?

I mean no disrespect, my great grandmother was Polish and while not Jewish, was taken to a concentration camp where she met my great grandfather. They survived the war and had a child, after which they moved to Australia. She still managed to live long enough to see me grow up and develop a great relationship with me. RIP Nanna XOXO