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Holocaust Denial and Holocaust PTSD

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Thank God IHR doesn't have enough money because they are one of the major threats to world peace. IHR and David Irving, the tireless re-writer of Nazi history, are keeping the Israeli/Palestinian conflict alive until, "God forbid," the conflict in the Middle East turns into World War III.

 

"Revisionist historians" have an irrational, incessant need to be right in their obsessive mission to get history in line with IHR facts.

 

Often overlooked is the fact that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from the Holocaust wasn't limited to the Jews who were alive at the end of World War II. Thanks to endless replays of documentaries showing emaciated bodies piled high, and being bulldozed into mass graves, everyone, everywhere, anytime since World War II who considers themselves Jewish now has a terminal case of vicarious or secondary traumatic stress disorder (STSD, VTSD).

 

The four most common characteristics of PTSD, STSD, VTSD are:   visualization- flashbacks, the ability to recall, see in the mind's eye a terrible event or trauma: reenactment- the trauma unconsciously acted out to restore power and control: fear of intimacy, pain, loss of control, victimization associated with relationships: and a sense of hopelessness.

 

PTSD is a normal response by normal people to the trauma and persecution suffered by the Jewish people during World War II.

 

Knowing a people as cultured and as educated as the Germans could produce Nazi Germany and living with a threat of annihilation from Iran, has taught the Jewish people that they can never completely trust a non-Jewish nation.

 

The image of the dark numbers tattooed on the white arms of the Jews had a chilling effect that will never fade away. Jewish people living in the 21st century are "children" of the Holocaust and have difficulty coping with guilt, fear, rage, and feelings of mistrust; they no longer know to act or what to expect in order to survive.

 

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Rachel was born in Israel in 1957 and served in the Israeli army during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. She was promoted to Major after the war. She studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and U.C.L.A in Los Angeles. Rachel has taught at (more...)
 
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