Is this one of those "carefully-worded" thingies? Where you say "prove the holocaust, defined as the execution of six million Jews by the Nazis in the 30s and 40s" and if it turns out to be three million or four million or three-hundred thousand, then there was no holocaust because the number is incorrect? Or is it "there was no holocaust, some Jews just got unlucky" or somewhere in between?
If I am remembering correctly, some holocaust deniers focus on the number of dead and produce much lower numbers or at least dispute the six million dead claim. By focusing on the numbers, they can divert attention from their belief that it didn't happen without explicitly saying so. So what I am wondering is, is this topic borne of the belief that the claim of six million cannot be verified, or is it borne of the belief that there was no attempt at a mass-extermination of Jews by the Nazis in the 30s and 40s?
If I am remembering correctly, some holocaust deniers focus on the number of dead and produce much lower numbers or at least dispute the six million dead claim. By focusing on the numbers, they can divert attention from their belief that it didn't happen without explicitly saying so. So what I am wondering is, is this topic borne of the belief that the claim of six million cannot be verified, or is it borne of the belief that there was no attempt at a mass-extermination of Jews by the Nazis in the 30s and 40s?
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