I have seen that number before but I want to know how that number came to be. Evidence is what I am looking for when I think about it.
I have seen people talk about the official numbers being reduced over the years but I cant find it.
The number was presented by the Red Cross in the late 1970s. It wasn't until probably 20 years later the 6,000,000 number started getting bandied around.
This is patently false. Ridiculous numbers were being thrown around immediately after the war. Including at Nuremberg. Students were taught muh 6 million in schools throughout the 50s and 60s.
mmmhmmm. Don't remember it in the 70s and 80s. The word "holocaust" never really even came up in history class.
The Red Cross did a post-war study on the records kept at all the camps. From these records they were able to determine the number of deaths that were at least recorded at each camp. During the Zündel trial, () these IRC records were presented as legal evidence in court. Public access to those records is totally forbidden now, but they still probably exist in physical form somewhere.
I have seen people talk about the official numbers being reduced over the years but I cant find it.
That mostly refers to the plaque at Auschwitz, which keeps getting changed. Every time it is changed, the number of Jews said on it to have been killed gets fewer.
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