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NOT SURE IF THIS WAS BAIT OR NOT. I JUST DO MY JOB.

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Good afternoon Mr Doolittle,

I understand you’re in a compromising position to answer questions of this nature so if you cant, that’s understandable. I am New Zealand student doing a study on the reasoning behind holocaust denial and was wondering if you had any specific sources or historians you thought were worth looking into. My endevours have been less fruitful than I’d hope to find sufficient sourcing, and anything you could provide me with would be greatly appreciated.

With respect,

[Name Withheld by Request]

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Hi. Well, the Nazi’s hate me for my positions. So I have no idea why anyone thinks I”m on the side of the lunatic fringe rather than a libertarian that specializes in truth telling and debunking falsehoods.

1) The hard right has adopted the left’s rhetorical tactics – which isn not what anyone expected. But that’s what the ‘alt right’ reflects: adoption of hyperbole, gossip, rallying, chanting, ridicule, shaming, and propagandizing. Postmodernism taught us that truth, reason, and science are impediments to power so truth does not matter. Since the left uses this tactic, for some reason the right eventually adopted it. My opinion is that the same training that went into the millennial generation on the left, went into the right, with opposite consequences: adoption of the technique for opposite ends. And the internet gave opportunity for people less politically interested to participate in political action, the same way that cheap 19th and 20th century printing gave opportunity for people more politically interested to engage in political action.

2) I don’t follow the ‘denier’ movement and I”m not terribly fond of the nazi era – my emphasis is in the pre and postwar rise of psuduoscience – but I do know that the holocaust story is ‘overplayed’ considerably, and that the evidence is that the nazis were imitating the Russian relocation strategy, and when the war was forced by Russia, the strategy could no longer be funded, and the natural consequences of that condition resulted in what it did. Just as the minions and millions of Russian dead were the consequence of trying to implement agrarian communism.

3) So this is to say that the same overstatement by the postwar propagandists, and the overstatement by the alt right are just competing hyperbolic narratives – which is the natural result of adopting marxist, fascist, postmodern strategy: recursive mutual degradation of the argument.

I mean, search Amazon for books on holocaust denial and you’ll find a lot of them. (I just did). I haven’t read any of them. And I don’t consider the subject worth my time. History always solves these questions. And when the invested generations are gone, the truth will come out one way or another. My suspicion given current discourse among historians is that, as always, historians will reduce the questions to military, political, demographic, and economic incentives. And at some point we will know the truth – or as close as history can help us discover it.

I actually don’t care. Fascism whether left or right Won (mixed economy strong state).

-Curt

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Thank you so much for your time and such a comprehensive answer. Very much appreciated.

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