NatSoc420 wrote:....Oh ok will do! Sorry about that, I'll be sure to not do it again.
Argumentation techniques and patterns by specific groups are however an important matter.
There is of course several groups with deviating (but not necessarily contradicting) interest on the matter.
It starts with the assertion that the Holocaust must be real, after all "haven't you seen the pictures from Buchenwald and other concentration camps?" All professors, teachers, journalists and survivors can't be wrong, neither. Usually they don't get resistance against their assertion (and often they don't have to assert, since the myth is already so deeply engrained it's factual character is accepted as historical fact).
Jews are in the comfortable position of being the victim and gaining sympathy that way. That shields them from criticism and may even be seen as a strategy against hostility towards them. Internally the myth has the effect of establishing cohesion theistic religion doesn't give them anymore, since many Jews are secularists or even atheists.
But they are by far not the most important interest groups in this.
For the
Allied countries (and especially there Elites) the atrocity propaganda had the advantage of shielding them from scrutiny on their own actions that lead to and happened during WW2. They had the post-facto legitimation of having fought an "evil regime", which made it easier to pass themselves on as the "good guys".
The
leftists did (and do) have probably the biggest interest in the matter for two reasons:
1. They themselves were militantly opposed by the National Socialists (for a number of reasons, some of them most people would actually find legitimate). Communists and Social Democrats were actually imprisoned (although most of their supporters actually aligned pretty well with National Socialism.) That means of course that have an axe to grind and as with Jews, the victim status gives them some of protection against critique.
2. They can blame a number of Western ideas and world views for 'Auschwitz' and 'the Holocaust' discrediting them that way in the minds of the gullible. Bear in mind they like to use the term Fascism also when they mean National Socialism. They don't like to say National Socialist, since Socialism is a holy word to them:
- Anti-communism, because the Axis countries were all staunch anti-communists.
- Social Conservatism. NS had some socially conservative ideas (while being progressive in several other ways).
- folkish Nationalism (They'd call that racist nowadays). It was seen as an obstacle to international class solidarity then.
- Christianity as Germany was a Christian country and most of the NSDAP voters were registered Protestants or Catholics. Christianity was seen as an obstacle to Marxism.
- Capitalism, since Fascism is seen as late stage capitalism. And the support base of the NSDAP was slightly more bourgeois than proletarian (I'm using their terminology and reasoning)
Neomarxists would also bash other stuff and use further associations mostly relating to social conservatism. e.g. heteronormativity, patriarchy, civic virtues like law abidance, respect for authority, martial virtues, industriousness, discipline, etc.
With other words Holocausting and Nazi-bashing is weaponizing myths against all tenets of Western Civilisation. Meanwhile the left has thrown the workers under the bus and now advocates gender issues, racial issues, LGBT, "refugees" and even cooperates in this with international corporations who may have other interests in this, but also seem to distain traditional Occidentalism.
The sources overlap, but depending on the group they will have their preferences. Liberals and moderates may not out-rightly use openly Communist sources, while Communists got no problem using sources that aren't Communist in fact, this may even help their case. Because "see, they others say that as well". The advantage is that the Holocaust has hegemony in Academia and most academics won't reveal their political convictions, which are however mostly skewed towards the far left. That's also why its rather difficult to find sources and details on Communist atrocities at all. Sometimes its written in an apologetic manner. There were actually leftists that were rather critical of Stalin, since that regime turned out to be an embarrassment to them.
