Even in today's modern society, characterized by advanced technologies and research methods, there are still people who believe that history has incorrectly recounted the horrific genocide of more than six million European Jews. These denialists are known as Holocaust revisionists. However, these people do not believe that the Holocaust simply did not happen. Instead, they believe that historians have hyperbolized the death toll and made the extermination camps into something they are not. Some even believe that Hitler was wrongly portrayed as the bad guy. They believe that Hitler was one of the Jewish people's best friends and was a great help to them. Furthermore, the revisionists conjured up the scandalous idea that the Jewish people were the real antagonists. Revisionists claim that Jews wanted land in the Middle East and therefore took the opportunity to shout to the world that they were being oppressed and discriminated against. As a result, they received what is today known as Israel as compensation. However, the preceding examples represent only a small percentage of the total number of revisionist ideas about how the Holocaust actually took place (Lipstadt). Holocaust revisionists work to dispel the widely accepted idea of ​​Jewish genocide during World War II. However, the plethora of evidence that historians have uncovered through war trials, film evidence, and written evidence clearly show that the story was told correctly. The revisionists have raised four arguments which are completely illogical and absurd. The first is that the extermination camps used to massacre six million European Jews were not extermination camps at all. According to revisionists, when the Sov...... middle of paper ......an extremely difficult concept to grasp. However, the story must always be memorized correctly. Otherwise, as Geoffrey Keynes said, “history will repeat itself.” Works Cited Butz, Arthur. “A Brief Introduction to Holocaust Revisionism.” Institute of Historical Review.1991. Internet. April 3. 2014. “Combatting Holocaust Denialism: Holocaust Evidence Presented at Nuremberg.” » Holocaust Encyclopedia. June 10, 2013. The web. April 3. 2014. Lipstadt, Deborah. “Denying the Holocaust.” BBC. February 17, 2011. The web. April 10. 2014. “The Holocaust Never Happened.” Youtube. July 13, 2010. Web. April 10. 2014.