(February 2, 2016 at 9:26 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(February 2, 2016 at 8:47 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Sure, the Nazis killed Jews. It's BS that they killed 6 million Jews. The propagandists had originally floated 8 million but the dummies in Washington said that that BS wouldn't fly so they settled on 6 million. And that was in 1943.
Well, you know who's always had the final say on history. To the victors go the rights to tell exaggerated genocide/war crimes stories!
Anyway, what if it was only 3 million Jews who were murdered just for being Jewish? Would the injustice be any different?
1 million Jews?
500,000?
10-100 who hadn't committed any crimes?
To be fair 6 millions is number that is just floating around. One of most respected scholars of Holocaust, late Raul Hilberg calculated number of victims at 5.1 million.* Israel Gutman and Robert Rozett estimate Jewish losses as being 5.59-5.86 million.**
And no injustice would not be any different only the outcry could be lesser. More to the point lesser number would mean more of would be victims surviving, or having the chance to survive. Sadly numbers weren't lower.
*Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews volume III, annex B Statistics of Jewish victims.
** Yad Vashem Institue site.
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