The good news is that the Holocaust victims number was greatly exaggerated, guesswork.
The bad news is that any number was killed. Hitler tried to export the Jews but
Many websites collaborate this story and since it is so long I may not recite all of it here.
Rense.com/general67/elusive.htm> The Elusive 'Six
Million' By Mark Weber Institute For Historical Review
popular consciousness that while the average
American may be quite sure that six mill-ion Je-ws
were slaughtered by the Germans in the Second World War --that is, in what is
now called "the Holocaust" – we have no idea of how many British,
Poles, Russians, or even Americans died during that global conflict, or, for
that matter, of how many of his fellow countrymen lost their lives in the
American Civil War. This is hardly surpris-ing,
considering how relentlessly the Six Million figure is hammered into the public
consciousness, not only in newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, and television,
but also routinely in our schools, and even by a special taxpayer-funded U.S.
federal gov-ernment agency, the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council, which runs the imposing U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, DC. The familiar World Book Encyclo-pedia tells readers, for example: "By the end
of 1945, the Nazis had slaughtered more than 6 million Jewish men, women and children
-- over two-thirds of the Jews in Eur-ope." [See
note] German president Richard von Weizsäcker, in his
much cited comme-morative speech of
German concentration camps." Anglo-Jewish historian Martin Gilbert, a prolific writer who is also the "official" biographer of Winston Churchill, has referred to "the syste-matic murder of 6 million J-e-ws." [See note] The Encyclopaedia Judaica states flatly:
"There can be no doubt as to the estimated
figure of some six million victims." [See note] An information sheet
issued by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council describes the grand
Just what is the basis for this familiar figure? Even
before the end of the Second World War in
major Je-wish
organizations, met in
lands. The number, he was told,
was 6 million.” Jewish