Firstly lets be absolutely clear, the holocuast was an evil act of genocide perpetrated in the name of facism as much as Stalins pogroms and siberia pogroms. It happenned and theres no pint denying that it ever did happen as those that do are far right or far left so and sos (to put it politely)
However the question to ask is why would they deny something as evil as the holocaust took place. Many aredrawn from disaffected Roman Catholics or churches who are in part dependent on Roman Catholic education. They note that the papacy took a long time to acknowledge the holocaust and repair its relations with the jewish and orthodox christian faiths (in part as they sought to protect their own believers living in their countries due to the cold war). As such to deny its existence meant that they could 'front' those that had really perpetrated it. That was the raison detre of the misguided british far right in the 1970s.
So if The popes managed to visit the grave of the unknown soldier and seen the Concentration camps, is a real Gulag Archipeligo next on his to visit lists or that of any mainstream church?
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and that is down to the doctrine of never criticising the papal decisions of previosu popes so there is a brake on the actions and direction change of the Roman Catholic Church.
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