>>397869>I don't think any actual leftist would deny the holocaust outright.What do you mean by "deny the holocaust"? Do I deny that millions of Jews were either deliberately killed or died as a result of massive neglect in forced labour camps, etc? No, of course not.
I reject the holocaust narrative because it whitewashes nazi crimes and reduces the victims of the hiterlite regime to 6 million people, separated entirely from real, broader figure of closer to 40 million. The persecution of the Jews was in no way separate from the persuction of slavs, communists, Roma, etc, and the entire narrative of a "holocaust" rather than a broad genocide of many ethnic groups of which the Jews was a part is promoted strategically by the west precisely to downplay the massive Soviet sacrifices which won the war & divert sympathy from the overwhelming majority of victims of fascism.
To promote the holocaust narrative, the very idea of a "holocaust" as oppossed to a broad genocide of political adversaries, ethnic & religious minorities which included millions of Jews is a covertly pro fascist, anti soviet/anti communist, pro-Zionist and historical revisionist position.
As to why Nazis cling to it, it's because the official Israel lobby sponsored holocaust narrative is frankly ridiculous & full of blatant mistruths, outright lies and etc. They just need to show off some of the more egregious claims & they can open up the uneducated to the idea that any negative information regarding the Nazi's, their attrocities, etc, cannot be trusted.
Again though, why do you care? Nazis are an almost entirely western phenomona outside of small groups of weird bourgeois larpers in some third world countries. Your obsession with them as the big bad great evil as oppossed to former colonizers & modern neocolonial masters shows your deep subservience to western culture & interests as well detachment to your own people and history. I don't trust you.