A Denier

This is Thomas Mallon—

When our class was researching Holocaust denial the other day I stumbled upon somthing facinating and of acute historical significance to our class. One of the fist denier of the Holocaust was not a white supremisist, nor a Nazi sympathizer—he was a french resistance fighter that had spent the war helping jews escape from Nazi persecution. Yet this same man wrote a book essentially claiming that the gas chambers had not existed. Why? He was worried that anti-German sentiment would give strength to communists and that it could turn into another war, leading to a communist take-over of Europe. This is so interesting because our perception of what a "denier" is is utterly differant. This shows that there can be many motives for altering history, not just to spread hate, but sometimes in an effort for peace.

SO I want to ask this question: if erasing the Holocaust from history would prevent a war right here, right now, would it be justified?