Does History Tell Us the Truth

The philosopher R. G. Collingwood argued that history is always a product of the relationship between the past and the present. He argued that there are no "pure" facts. They all come to us through the mind of the one who records them.

As the famous historian Fustel de Coulanges said, "Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth."

I think first to understand the weight of truth in relation to history, I must define what history is about: -

History is a term that refers to information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human people, families, and societies. Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.

History in greek means Ð''pure investigation'

One of the most famous quotations about history and the value of studying history, by Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, reads: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The German Philosopher. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel remarked in his Philosophy of history that: "What history and experience teach us is this: that people and government never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." This was famously paraphrased by the British statesman, Winston Churchill into: "The one thing we have learned from history is that we don't learn from history."

I personally feel one of the most controversial events in history was the Holocaust led by Hitler

The Holocaust has changed human civilization. The knowledge of the fact that it was possible to disestablish and exterminate a certain group of people from the rest of the society simply because they were defined by the authorities as different and dangerous, is a challenge of the outmost importance to the human mind. The systematic mass murder of six million Jews cannot be erased from the history of mankind, but could, should and must be used to discern and warn against structures and developments in present society, which could lead to new genocides.

However, did the holocaust happen in the exact same manner it has been portrayed by historians?

I ask you, was the holocaust an actual attempt or is this another exaggeration led by the haters of Hitler, which by large he had many?

Under this presentation of history I ask, why not let the other side be heard, why not question historyÐ'...

After all why is the other side, NOT being heard, is it because it may be right, but because we over the years have established our present, Ð''creating hatred towards Hitler that it is impossible or us to challenge this perception'

As even defenders of the orthodox extermination story concede, skepticism about the Holocaust story has grown dramatically in recent years.

During the past decade, though, more and more "revisionist" historians, including respected scholars such as Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University, Prof. Robert Faurisson of the University of Lyon in France and best-selling British historian David Irving, have been challenging the widely-accepted extermination story.

They do not dispute the fact that large numbers of Jews were deported to concentration camps and ghettos, or that many Jews died or were killed during the Second World War. Revisionist scholars have, however, presented considerable evidence to show that there was no German program to exterminate Europe's Jews, that numerous claims of mass killings in "gas chambers" are false, and that the estimate of six million Jewish wartime dead is an irresponsible exaggeration.

Holocaust historians rely heavily on so-called "survivor testimony" to support the extermination story. But such "evidence" is notoriously unreliable. As one Jewish historian has pointed out, "most of the memoirs and reports [of "Holocaust survivors"] are full of preposterous verbosity, graphomanic exaggeration, dramatic effects, overestimated self-inflation, dilettante philosophizing, would-be lyricism, unchecked rumors, bias, partisan attacks and apologies."

There is no documentary evidence that Adolf