Is denial of the figure of 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust to reduce this figure to 4 million or 1 million part of a holocaust denial or a legitimate pursuit of the truth? Today is the 70th Anniversary of the January 1945 liberation by the Russian [USSR] military. The USSR put the figure initially of those that died at that death camp at 4 million. It was disputed by many researchers and various academics and the figure of 1.1 million to at most 1.5 was accepted. I have had a series of heated arguments with my home mate over recent months, last week and less intensely last night. He is a methodist Englishman. Im English by birth, brought up a Catholic, of Irish-Jewish lineage, and atheist for over 40 years by choice. I have heard the disputed figures of the final death toll of the Final Solution for years. My home mate asserts the 6 million figure is far from accurate and the logistics of killing this amount cannot be accurate but fist in with a Zionist Jewish narrative that goes back in history. And that Israel has exploited this figure to avoid criticism of the treatment of Palestinians? I have repeatedly asked the question of what figure would be acceptable to him? After much heated, and drink assisted, debate he settled for 1.1 million to a maximum of 3. He then claimed that the figure of 6 million is recent, 70s and 80s. At which point I said this was not true. I was only 6 when Adolf Eichmann admitted at his trial in Israel to 6 million. People, like me of a certain age, will remember All Our Yesterdays, a BBC documentary on WWII and the holocaust, that repeatedly mentioned the figure of 6 million in 964. In fact the figure of 6 million was first mention in November 1946 at the Nuremberg trials. I have accepted the figure of 6 million and with a further 5 million non-Jews back in the late 60s. The figure of 55 to 65 million as the International death toll total who died in WWII is still being debated and researched. A 93 year old Jewish holocaust [Auschwitz] survivor said yesterday on BBC TV that there should be an international Holocaust Day to remember all victims of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder not just jews from WWII. My view is that if we start down the slippery slope of accepting the reduction of numbers, whether in Auschwitz, died in the famous slave trade, Tasmania, Indonesia, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, or many others, we are doing the job of the holocaust deniers who serve a very different agenda in marginalising and minimizing in claiming to find a truth. If the truth will set you free can we, based on the 287 sources that agree 5.1 to 5.9 million Jews is unacceptable and even 1 million or one person killed because of their belief system is a attack on human rights. An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere Martin Luther King Jr. haaretz/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.540880
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:02:23 +0000
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