The real reason so many people deny the holocaust...

The best defense is a good offense.

When people deny that "the Germans killed 6 million Jews", they are absolutely correct. Killing on that scale would have been impossible without enthusiastic help from Croatians, Romanians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukranians, Poles and French. By shifting the debate to the very existence of the Holocaust, non-German fascists have created a climate where energy is spent defending the obvious, rather than discovering the interesting, and the unexplored holocaustal contributions of different European countries pass into oblivion.