Why do far right wingers have such a strong tendency to deny the Holocaust? Even among literal Nazis who would be glad that it happened, I see many times that they just flatly deny it exists, and I honestly can’t figure out why. It’s mostly anecdotal evidence, but it seems fairly evident. There’s obviously some appeal to them from denying it but honestly I can’t see why they would do it. Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

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On the opposite side of the coin, that’s also why the ‘Communism killed 500 million people’ take is so pervasive in the West.

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The counter of Holocaust deniers is to say that communists did all the real killing. It falls in line with the early Nazi conspiracies that communism was a Jewish plot and it’s rooted propaganda into “Stalin killed millions”.

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