Why do people deny genocide instead of boasting of it or accepting it?

[PurpleBurger88]

I don't deny the holocaust, and like most have pointed out, I think it's a PR campaign. I'm personally embarrassed for them anytime I speak with another NatSoc who tries to argue that the holocaust didn't happen. Ok, then what was the point of it all? The Jew is the eternal enemy of everyone, they pull at the very fabric of every society they've been introduced to. They have consistently undermined every civilization they infested, and we are witnessing turbo unraveling as we speak.
Then you expect me to believe that as the Germans, especially as they started to lose the war, were just going to, what? Let the Jews survive? Every week thousands of brave young German men giving their lives, and these Jews get to survive a war THEY STARTED?? As the Fuehrer said "If international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
I think they tried their best to make that a reality.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Because I didn't get any kills.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I refuse to accept any politically correct narratives of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It makes absolutely no sense a water treatment facility meant to provide China with clean drinking water would experiment on Chinese people. As for the Holocaust. The only deaths I accept are those from starving inmates that were abandoned from allied bombings when the guards couldn't be able to get them out. Now I'm not claiming Adolf Hitler is like Jesus Christ or anything because in reality, he has like 1000 narratives and it's extremely hard to find the true one (some suggesting he escaped and died in Argentina in the 60s or that Hitler was a Rothschild). But If I am not allowed to question what I have been told, I refuse to believe in their narrative. I'm a Holocaust Revisionist but I don't brand myself with swastika's (because I don't want to blend in with modern day Nazi's who are too retarded to study national socialism and drunkenly kill minorities for no reason). Also, The Alt Right has become gay af.

 

[namvata]

To give an honest answer to the question of this thread: people and nations used to boast about having committed genocides for a long time, it was a source of pride to them if anything and to many it still is. Just look at the mongols, who still celebrate their ancient history of mass murder, raping, pillaging, and conquering under Ghengis Khan to this day.

But the event that marked the change in attitude towards genocide was the holohoax. A perfect example of this is the Turks and the armenian genocide. The Turks were bragging about what they did to Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians up until the late 1940s, and then they started denying it. Why did they start denying it? Because Germany and the holohoax made genocide bad in the eyes of the international community, therefore no nation wanted to brag and boast about having committed genocides anymore for fear of those involved being subjected to the nuremburg treatment, so instead they started to simply deny the genocides even happened to begin with. It didn't help the turks either that the first uses of the term "holocaust" in the media was used to refer to the armenian genocide while it was occuring.

 

[Black Man Underwear]

Genocide is used as a demoralization technique.

Your ideology may have created an objectively better society for your people, but you also killed millions of innocent people. Asserting a supposed "genocide" did not happen is a way of saying "I have nothing to be ashamed of, fuck you".

Russia admits the Holodomor happened but does not constantly shame itself or the ideology responsible for it. Therefore even if the Holocaust happened, why should fascists feel remorseful?

If you remove the Holocaust, the moral high ground of Marxism and democracy in WW2 evaporates. Even from a neoliberal perspective, Fascism is far freer than Communism.
Example: Poland was massacring German civilians and held territory Germany asserted was stolen just over a decade before.
It could be argued that an invasion was justified. Polish civilian settlers were ejected only from reclaimed German territory, and the nation as a whole was occupied for the duration of the war. Most of Polish territory would be kept Polish, Germany was not looking to liquidate all of Poland.

Soviet treatment of their Polish territory was comparatively barbaric. The Katyn Massacre stands as a perfect example of this.
Despite their multiple wartime genocides far eclipsing Hitler's, all to which they've admitted, Russia still claims a Soviet moral high ground today.
This cannot be simply attributed to Putinism, Russia has never backed down from this stance under any President or for any reason.

If you add in the Holocaust, it overshadows Germany reclaiming its old territory and makes German occupation look just as bad if not worse than Soviet occupation, and now Hitler is objectively the bad guy while Stalin is "Uncle Joe".

If you look at it from the contemporary perspective, nobody knew about the Holocaust until '44-'45.
Hitler made regular overtures for peace with Britain and America, but all were denied on the basis of "liberating Europe".
It makes perfect sense to conjure a false genocide to retroactively legitimize delivering half of Europe to Bolshevism.

Today, being a patriot in Germany is seen as a bad thing almost exclusively because of the Holocaust.

Germany isn't unique to this either.

Take Japan: how can you convince a nation built on civil war and a warrior culture to break their swords, renounce military force forever, and commit to permanently being lesser than its neighbors? You push a narrative that makes people feel bad for being patriotic. In some respects it failed in Japan, but it succeeded in many others.