What is a Holocost Denier?, page 1

One thing I have always said about the Nazi’s is that they were very good at documentation and recordkeeping, and by this have essentially lent a huge blow to those that deny the Holocaust happened. There are literally thousands upon thousands of declassified documents from the concentration camps, intercepted Nazi communication letters, etc. that prove there were very near 6 million Jewish peoples killed by the Nazi’s from about 1939 to 1945 (particularly in Poland). Most of those documents are available to the public in the form of the Bad Arolsen Archives Bad Arolsen, the OSS documents OSS, and many others including such things as the “Hofle Telegram” pictured and translated here: Hofle Telegram. Those that deny the Holocaust also directly deny the records of extermination of the Nazi’s themselves, and sometimes refuse to acknowledge the tremendous deaths of Jews, Romany’s, etc. that were put into Ghettos before being shipped of to the camps. There were also the Einsatzgruppen ( Einsatzgruppen History ), which were a special task force appointed by the Nazi regime, if you will, whose primary objective according to SS General, Erich von dem Bach, “was the annihilation of Jews, Gypsies, and Political Commissars”. These Einsatzgruppen memebers would essentially do just that, and were heavily prevalent before the outbreak of WWII. Their murders probably account for another unrepresented number of Jewish people that suffered at the hands of the Nazi’s. There are thousands of pictures taken by SS officers and Nazi officials showing the horrific scenes in the camps and ghettos, and clearly show Jewish people being experimented on and tortured. There is a fine line that they seem to ride between what the Nazi’s were directly and indirectly responsible for. In a way it’s like saying that one cannot be held accountable for the death of a group of people just because they starved to death, but that those in power never offered or gave them food to combat their starvation

The Jewish were, however, not the only people to have suffered under the Nazi regime; there were substantial casualties to the Romany (Gypsy) population, Serb population, Homosexuals, and Political factions to name a few. In fact, conservative death toll estimates from WWII are anywhere from 55,000,000 to 72,000,000 losses…that figure includes Jewish losses, Allied losses, Russian losses, Axis losses, etc. Of those it is estimated that around 18 million were sent to Extermination Camps and between 5 and 11 million were actually killed. So, let’s take the low end of that figure (5 million) and say that is exactly how many perished in the Nazi camps during WWII including the Romany population and others. Now, take the total people that also perished in the ghettos, or who were directly murdered by SS officers before their deportation, or met their end from economic sanctions against Jewish peoples during this timeframe and it is not hard to see how current estimates believe so many Jewish people met their end under the Nazi’s. It is not, in my humble opinion, hard to believe that there were 6,000,000 people identifying themselves as Jewish killed during this time period when you take into account all the evidence supporting (from the Nazi records themselves) such a death toll.

[edit on 19-6-2007 by Jazzerman]