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I don't think I've ever typed in a search query before using the word "holocaust", but my results are largely the the same as the author's - Stormfront is #1, "
by adevine 10y ago
I don't think I've ever typed in a search query before using the word "holocaust", but my results are largely the the same as the author's - Stormfront is #1, "The Holocaust Hoax" is a little further down at #5.
I think the scary thing about this query, though, is that for better or worse people DO search Google for factual answers. Sure, someone searching "Did the holocaust happen?" is likely to already be doubting the Holocaust actually occurred, but given that I think it's a very bad thing that the top answer from Google confirms their false beliefs. It turns from "Some crazy bullshit white supremacist website told me the Holocaust didn't happen" to "Google told me the Holocaust didn't happen."
- lisivka 10y agoIf you will fact check claims about Holocaust, you will see that numbers are made up. My mother and grandmother are Jews. My grandmother lived near to Kyiv (Kiev) at times of WWWII. When I asked my mother about Babi Yar (Old Women Rave)[1], where 200 thousands of Jews were executed, she said that it is false: 190 thousands of Jews were evacuated to East, 40 thousands left only in Kyiv and surroundings, including my grandmother. I fact checked that and found that in Babi Yar only 621 Ukrainians, members of OUN, were executed by German army as partisans, including Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga. Their grave is visible at aerial photos from USA archive made by German pilots: it near to radio mast. However, Russians claims that 200 thousands of anonymous Jews were executed in Babi Yar by Ukrainians, members of OUN, i.e. complete opposite to the fact. I also fact checked other similar claims about Odessa and Lviv and found that they are false too: in Odessa it was done by communists shortly after capture of Ukraine: thousands of victims were sink in Black Sea, in Lviv it just false: 200 dead instead of 200 000, none of them was Jew, they were British soldiers. It makes me to think that Russians are using Holocaust to meet their own goals, which makes it look real victims and real fact less trustworthy. I checked that and found answer in leaked Russian book for FSB newcomers: in Russia, state sponsors fake campaigns to help FSB to develop new agents in various organizations. Book describes technique how to use these fake claims to find a someone who is easy to manipulate. I was shocked by that. So, I know that Holocaust is real thing, because some of my grandmother relatives in Poland were victims of that, but I also know that some numbers are made up or fake. How I should react to all that? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
- lisivka 10y agoPlease, if you downvote, downvote with comment. I can provide documents, photos, records if necessary. It's real story of real people. I'm sorry if you are victim of Russian propaganda. I also not pretending that 621 members of OUN were the only victims. I'm talking about Babi Yar only. Thousands were executed at various places across and near to Kyiv, some of them were Jews, but none of Jews were executed in Babi Yar, AFAIK. I live here so I know better. PS. It was hard time for Jews. My grandmother was Jew and her husband was in Soviet Army, so she was valuable target, however she was hided by neighbors, so she escaped. Some of her relatives was not so lucky (I know no details, except that one of them ended dead in Poland), but none of them were executed in Babi Yar.