February 8th

WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE HOLOCAUST NEVER HAPPENED

by Julia Vinograd

Because we lied to them.

We told them an entire country turned into werewolves

or at the very least, went insane.

They don’t believe us and they’re right.

It was much worse.

One can plead innocent by reason of insanity,

the Germans weren’t innocent

and they weren’t insane.

They also weren’t werewolves.

I even found a used copy of a novel by Goebbels,

an intense, clumsy story about love and patriotism.

It wasn’t very good, but a person wrote it,

not a comic-book villain.

People are capable of everything.

We can talk inhuman atrocities

till we’re blue in the face,

these atrocities were committed by humans.

Anything else is not just a lie,

it’s a Nazi lie.

The Nazis claimed the Jews weren’t human.

Enough.

Everyone was human,

we should stop writing fairy-tales

in history books.

The truth is much more dangerous.

What comic-book villains do

ends when Spiderman kills them.

What people do,

people can do again.