Holocaust -- knowledge of and denial

[ismnotwasm]

1. I've been a nurse long enough to have cared for tattooed victims

The particular couple I'm thinking of too didn't talk much about it-- but that faded ink was there. I think they met after the war and married.

I worked in long term care for my first decade of nursing. Which means I also took care of many WW2 Vets. I'd hear stories-- usually downplayed-- of what I realized later were famous battles.

I got interested in that period of history, how one war led to another, and then I read about "The Night of Broken Glass" and subsequent events.

It's funny, I read "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" in about 7th grade and it shaped who and what I am for all time-- how I look at history, how I view bigotry, the awakening of my mind of how inhuman humans can be. (I learned about the holocaust-- but it the shear unmitigated horror was hidden in the history of the war, in a way)

It still didn't prepare me for the story of the holocaust. The actual deniers I've met were fairly nutty-which didn't stop me from telling them off. I think the worst ones are the "it wasn't that bad" or "look at what Stalin did" I get physically ill. I get mad.

Your chart shows that not all deniers can be wing nuts, that perhaps otherwise reasonable human beings are deniers. I can't imagine how you feel, but know this, those lies will never be spoken in front of me without a challenge.