Editing Holocaust denial (section)

===Former Auschwitz SS personnel===
Critics of Holocaust denial also include members of the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände|Auschwitz SS]]. Camp physician and SS-''[[Untersturmführer]]'' [[Hans Münch]] considered the facts of Auschwitz "so firmly determined that one cannot have any doubt at all", and described those who negate what happened at the camp as "malevolent" people who have "personal interest to want to bury in silence things that cannot be buried in silence".<ref>Frankfurter, Bernhard. ''Die Begegnung. Auschwitz-Ein Opfer und ein Täter im Gespräch''. Vienna, Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1995, p. 102. cited in [[Robert Jan van Pelt|Jan van Pelt, Robert]]. ''The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial''. [[Indiana University Press]], 2002, p. 291.</ref> [[Zyklon B]] handler and SS-''[[Oberscharführer]]'' [[Josef Klehr]] said that anyone who maintains that nobody was gassed at Auschwitz must be "crazy or in the wrong".<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Demant |editor-first=Ebbo |title=Auschwitz&nbsp;– "Direkt von der Rampe weg...." Kaduk, Erber, Klehr: Drei Täter geben zu Protokoll |language=de |trans-title=Auschwitz&nbsp;- "Straight from the ramp..." Kaduk, Erber, Klehr: Three perpetrators testify |page=114 |location=Hamburg |publisher=Rowohlt |date=1979 |isbn=3-499-14438-7}}</ref> SS-''Unterscharführer'' [[Oswald Kaduk]] stated that he did not consider those who maintain such a thing as normal people.<ref>''Drei Deutsche Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des Bösen'', Germany 1998 (filmed in 1978). Directed by Ebbo Demant, produced by [[Südwestrundfunk]].</ref> Hearing about Holocaust denial compelled former SS-''[[Rottenführer]]'' [[Oskar Gröning]] to publicly speak about what he witnessed at Auschwitz, and denounce Holocaust deniers,{{sfn|Rees|2005|p=300}} stating:

{{blockquote|I would like you to believe me. I saw the gas chambers. I saw the crematoria. I saw the open fires. I was on the ramp when the selections took place. I would like you to believe that these atrocities happened because I was there.{{sfn|Rees|2005|p=301}}<ref name="Online 2005">{{cite news |title=An SS Officer Remembers: The Bookkeeper from Auschwitz |newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]] |date=May 9, 2005 |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/an-ss-officer-remembers-the-bookkeeper-from-auschwitz-a-355188.html |access-date=April 22, 2016 |archive-date=March 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070302085046/http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,355188,00.html |url-status=live}}</ref>}}