ELI 5 With all the insurmountable evidence like photos books videos testimony and so on. How can a person still deny the Holocaust?
Don't take fascists at their word. They're lying to you, they don't believe it was fake, they want you to doubt it and cede ground. Don't engage with them, they're operating in bad faith
100% this is the answer. They deny reality, hoping you will too. The whole goal is collective dismissal of past horrors, so they can do them again, or pretend they aren't that bad. See what Israel is doing to Gaza for a literal playbook for what they want to do to minorities. They can't fucking wait to pave over their bodies and pretend they're victors of a holy war.
These aren't people with a normal sense of empathy.
It's also a tactic to control the conversation. Even if you don't doubt it, even just engaging to prove it gives their bullshit undeserved credibility. Every response is a losing proposition; your best option at that point is "fuck off, clown."
Right. They understand it puts them in a bad light, and people they hate in a sympathetic one, so they deny it happened.
"It never happened, but if it did it was a good thing and I hope we do it again!"