The greatest conspiracy theory ever

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There are other historians who are merely critical of the details and not those well established facts - they deny that 6,000,000 Jews were killed for example (and it is true that the number killed is believed to be closer to 5 million now). If I recall correctly, about 3-3.5 million Jews were deliberately killed in extermination chambers. Squabbling over exactly what the number is isn't denial - that's what we expect historians to do. Although those on the fringes are often pretty bad and clearly biased historians, they aren't 'deniers' per se.

Apart from the fact that I don't know of any serious historian debating the number of about 6 million jews being killed, it doesn't make any difference if the number was much lower. It's still a fact that it was the first time, genocide was practized on an industrial and planned level. And yes, they were gassed, shot, starved and slain to death. They all are counted to come to the final result of 6 million victims. Jewish victims, to be precise. But jews weren't the only ones in the machinery. The Sinti and Roma were in it too and to a lesser extent, Soviet POWs, gays, Jehovas witnesses, communists and everyone being considered enemy of the state.