6 million minus 2.5 million equals 6 million

By Andrew Winkler

The numbers of alleged Jewish victims have always wildly varied from scholar to scholar, from as high as 9 million in the French documentary Night and Fog, which has been shown to millions of students woldwide, to as low as 30,000^[1] (out of a total of 69,000) in the official death books. But no matter how high or low the number of victims in the Auschwitz camps, most Holocaust scholars arrive at the same magic six million figure.

Some revisionists suspect that this has more to do with an old Jewish myth according to which six million Jews have to die before the Jewish people can return to Israel.^[2] They also point out that claims similar to the ones made after WWII were made at the end of WWI, suggesting that it is more of a symbolic religious figure. Some revisionists go even as far as suggesting the number has to do with the ‘Satanic’ number 666, referring to allegations of a disproportionally strong Jewish element in Satanic cults.

Our friends over at Nizkor.org, the only Holocaust believers who even bother trying to have something remotely resemblant of a rational debate with revisionists - instead of simply resorting to all sorts of insults or calling for the Kosher Inquisition to punish the heretics with the full force of the law - are struggling to ‘debunk’ the problem of the shrinking number of Auschwitz victims. (more…)