The ugly truth of the Holocaust should never be suffocated by propaganda and conspiracy
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Looking back at history and looking at the current fashion for conspiracy, statues and memorials serve as a physical, permanent, undeniable reminder of what took place – the truth. As the years roll on, layer upon layer of conspiracy and propaganda will bury and suffocate the truth, until someone comes up with the idea that it was all staged by Hollywood – like the moon landings – and then covered up. One of the most moving and persuasive cases for a prominent memorial to the murder of European Jewry was made by TV presenter David Baddiel in a remarkable film earlier this week, Confronting Holocaust Denial, during which he engaged in conversation with a Holocaust denier, and sat through a rendition of a breathtakingly cruel antisemitic folk song composed by his interlocutor.
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