The "Holocaust": From History to Myth.

One need recall that the very defintion of  historical revisionism is to revise, that is, to take a new, fresh look at established hstorical assumptions. There can be no doubt that the "Holocaust" (a word not even employed to describe the treatment of Jews in the Third Reich era in Europe until around 1970), or, more less politically correct and morally "charged," the treatment of Jews presents a dark picture in the dense panorama of policies undertaken to reorder Europe according to Third Reich policy before and during World War 2. Clearly, harsh treatment, labor camps, concentration camps, and the like, existed in one form or another. Clearly, also, some Jews perished in those penal or labor institutions, mostly via disease and poor treatment. Finally, some Jews were executed in venues outside the "camp" system. Many of them were anti-German partisans executed according to the rules of War. Many, also, were executed not by Germans but by their very own countrymen, as it ought be noted that anti-Jewish sentiments ran as a strong current of European cultural commonplaces long before the second quarter of the twentieth century, and, obviously, not merely in Germany. That being said, it cannot be denied that some form of "Holocaust" (and I here use the term as a convenience) did surely occur as I note above, in less direct terms. But, the revisionist must ask, in what form; where; how many "victms"; why, exactly? Are the accepted historical assumptions correct? That's all revisionism does. It does not take a political or moral stance and "deny." Denial is another issue entirely. It certainly does not engage, as the standard "wisdom" does, in creating a myth for the purpose of moral extortion to benefit the alleged victims or descendants of the myth. To do so is to throw history aside, dirty it and exploit its victims. That, in and of itself, is a crime against humanity, as it is a "rape" of the historical record. In the long-run, myth-history will cave in upon itself and do great harm to those who insist the "myth" is true, is fact, and helps them. That implosion, however, may take centuries. Correcting a perversion of history usually does.