Deborah Lipstadt : Behind the lie of Holocaust denial

TED 2017

Deborah Lipstadt  : Behind the lie of Holocaust denial (transcript)

Summary

When I’d read the article at first, l couldn’t understand it completely and I didn't know about the movie "denial". Then I knew about the movie that in Japan, is going to be released on December this year and Japanese subtitle is "Negative and affirmative".

First, what is the Holocaust denial?

The Holocaust is a genocide that Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany killed millions of Jews during World War II. It has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world and there are victims, survivors, bystanders, perpetrators and even death camps. 1)

The Holocaust denial is to deny the Holocaust or to think that it didn't happen.  A denier is a person who takes the position that the Nazis were really not so bad, the allies were really not so good. He knows the documents and facts of the Holocaust, but he somehow twists them to get this opinion and this is his proud new opinion.

It's not related whether you believe it or not, the opinion exists. 2)

In fact, he was the same adulation of Hitler, praise of the Third Reich, anti-Semitism and racism prejudice. 3)

It means that it is wrong to think that there are facts and there are opinions. There, there are facts, there are opinions and there are lies. He firstly has lies and he says that it's his new opinions. He leads it to the conversation and then he encroaches on facts. 4)

Furthermore, he was bringing a libel suit against the speaker in the United Kingdom, because she called him a Holocaust denier. 5)

It's because British law the burden of proof on her to prove the truth of what she said.

If she didn't fight, he would win by default and then he could legitimately say that Hitler had nothing to do with any suffering but the Jews have made this all up. 6)

She fought and she followed his footnotes back to his sources. She proved that he didn't have the evidence to prove it. 7)

So we have to know that there is a view that is made by lies, that is distorted deliberately, and that truth and facts are under assault. 8)

We must go on the offensive, not the defensive.

Truth and facts are under assault.

This was the surprising article that I couldn't understand completely at first and then it reminded me of the Japanese military comfort women.

Words in this story

distinction /noun/  importance, significance, excellence that sets someone or something apart from others.

adulation /noun/ praise, admiration, applause, compliment.

encroach /verb/ intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).  impose oneself on