Originally Posted by Matt 26z

The holocaust as the history books define it was a work of fiction developed for the Nuremberg trials. The allied forces wanted to cripple Germany for decades. Between the cash reparations, splitting of Germany and the starvation of most German POWs it was a great success.

There were indeed many deaths at Germany's internment camps, but they died of typhus. Every effort was made by Germany early in the war to treat these people, but the hospitals became overrun as the disease spread. It got to the point where nobody could be treated because the allied forces had cut off German supply lines.

There are stories of people witnessing murders, but there are also stories of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan murdering people. History has allowed these isolated stories to take on a life of their own for WW2.