As long as you hold onto the basic idea that extermination was the goal, and they were accidentally assisted by the destruction of infrastructure (which also was instrumental in preventing the rest of them from being killed), is that really downplaying the atrocities?
That said, I don’t know if that claim is really true.
Assuming by highest likelihood that you’re German, my reading of the relevant section of the criminal code suggest that it’s OK for you to debate in Internet fora:
(3) Whosoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the kind indicated insection 6 (1) of the Code of International Criminal Law, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace shall be liable to imprisonment of not more than five years or a fine.
(4) Whosoever publicly or in a meeting disturbs the public peace in a manner that violates the dignity of the victims by approving of, glorifying, or justifying National Socialist rule of arbitrary force shall be liable to imprisonment of not more than three years or a fine.
Unless it can be argued that you’d be “disturbing the public peace”. But as I understand it, in Germany (and France) it’s legal to visit Stormfront, you just cannot promote it.
I don’t see a problem, unless he claims they wouldn’t have killed them eventually if they had won. The claim is “allies helped the nazis do this faster” not “allies did this and nazis did not”, but I don’t know anything about how law works so I’m probably wrong.
I think It would be technically illegal for me to participate or update away from my default position in such a hypothetical debate.
I agree that this doesn’t say good things about where you live.
As long as you hold onto the basic idea that extermination was the goal, and they were accidentally assisted by the destruction of infrastructure (which also was instrumental in preventing the rest of them from being killed), is that really downplaying the atrocities?
That said, I don’t know if that claim is really true.
Assuming by highest likelihood that you’re German, my reading of the relevant section of the criminal code suggest that it’s OK for you to debate in Internet fora:
Unless it can be argued that you’d be “disturbing the public peace”. But as I understand it, in Germany (and France) it’s legal to visit Stormfront, you just cannot promote it.
disturbing the peace is a catchall for “the authorities decided they don’t like what you’re doing” FYI. Long legal tradition and all that.
I don’t see a problem, unless he claims they wouldn’t have killed them eventually if they had won. The claim is “allies helped the nazis do this faster” not “allies did this and nazis did not”, but I don’t know anything about how law works so I’m probably wrong.