Historically speaking, it doesn't get any better than that. In the last few years, however, thousands of people have bought into the remarkable suggestion that the Holocaust was a grand hoax . Most historians have brushed aside this theory as ridiculous, thinking that if the Holocaust is not historically proven, probably nothing else is. But surprisingly, the idea has established a firm foothold in the nation's universities and news rooms, and a Gallup poll conducted in January of 1994 showed that 33 percent of Americans think it seems possible that the holocaust never happened . He lists several other unfounded ideas that have gained a following, such as the supposedly strong influence of Iroquois thought on the U.S. Constitution .
Some people are convinced the truth about their own history has been deliberately hidden.
The Holocaust did, unfortunately, occur. But increasingly among students of history and even in popular culture, the facts of history are becoming more flexible and can be bent to accommodate almost any argument. History, long held as an objective field of study like chemistry or physics, is now considered an ever-changing inquiry into the subjective viewpoints of past cultures . Scholars used to view 'history' as the investigation into what actually happened in the past and why. Today's postmodern historians view history more as a study of people's images and thoughts about their society and their past .