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We are probably just thinking past one another. I don't see how 10 hours of first person accounts of the extermination machine that was the camps could fuel holocaust denial. I don't see how anyone who really sat down and watched SHOAH could think the gas chambers were used only for storage. I was never the same following SHOAH. I've watched it a couple of times, in fact. I've rarely felt my humanness more fully.I disagree... at least about the 10 hours part... and I think this is part of what fuels this wacky Holocaust denier stuff. I've watched a ton of sadly moving films on the Holocaust... there's no way to measure the extent of this misery.
I've also watch films like this very excellent one from a Cambodian journalist who lost his family in the killing fields and went looking for (and found) these murders:
again, no way measure this misery, or compare it to someone else's... but when we broaden the lens we can at least start to look at the larger spiritual questions and not get mired in this wacky "Holocaust denier" debate... i.e. it's not about Nazis, it's about how we are all susceptible to being manipulated into doing horrible things.