However, it's not as if Hitler was the only-ever brutal dictator in human history. I outlined one example in >>12; All the things Hitler did, was also done by other dictators.
Hitler is often the whipping boy in the game of totalitarian personality cults, but there's well documented atrocities committed by others. From various communist regimes, to Pinochet's free market dictatorship in Chile. It's all out there for anyone to read, with a quick search. These don't get talked about too much (especially Pinochet) because that's a little too close to home for the CIA and their coup operations.
So to summarise:
It seems the Powers That Be need Hitler to be the be-all-end-all Complete Monster Of All Time.
They're not content with having him be a brutal dictator, those are a dime a dozen;
he has to be outright inhumanly evil.
Which I think is the real reason we get this oh-so-not Soviet-style propaganda campaign
against those pesky Unbelieving thought-criminals that stand to «demote» Hitler's evilness
from Satan's Older Brother to Saddam Hussein or Josef Stalin.
Which would have been bad enough, but nohoho.
You're really getting pretty emotional about this. Hitler became the strongest, most well-known and most successful cult of personality in the 20
th century, hell possibly even the last two centuries. You really can't "demote" or diminish that. His charisma is something almost other worldly, no wonder he was able to command an entire nation for twelve years without *too much* opposition.
Oh, and for the record, before I forget:
I seriously fail to see how a real Nazi would deny the Holocaust if it really did happen. What he would say, is that the Jews actually deserved exactly what they got, and to lament the fact that the 3rd Reich managed to kill only six million Jews.
The Revisionists (that I've bothered to hear out) are saying nothing of the sort.
Those
revisionists deniers are either too chickenshit to openly state their intentions, wanton iconoclasts looking for their 15 minutes of fame by being contrarian simply for the sake of being so, stupid, gullible consumers of low brow propaganda, suffering from some severe form of crank magnetism, or all of the above. If there's a "revisionist" that has some well-meaning intentions, I've yet to hear of such a person.
Tl;dr: I support repealing laws against Holocaust denial, but I am at the same time
against Holocaust denial.