Four million died at Auschwitz?

HOLOCAUST deniers often misstate a historical
fact to confuse and confound an otherwise naive reader,
and the “Four Million Variant” is no exception. Each
piece of this denier puzzle is flawed, from the
contention that the number killed at Auschwitz
was protected as an “irrefutable fact” to the existence
of some cabal that slanders all those who question this
figure.

Deniers often use the “Four Million Variant” as a stepping stone to leap from an apparent contradiction to the idea that the Holocaust was a hoax, again perpetrated by a conspiracy. They hope to discredit historians by making them seem inconsistent. If they can’t keep their numbers straight, their reasoning goes, how can we say that their evidence for the Holocaust is credible?

One must wonder which historians they speak of, as most have been remarkably consistent in their estimates of a million or so dead (See Hilberg,
572; Dawidowicz, 191; Sweibocka,
287-288).

In short, all of the denier’s blustering about the
“Four Million Variant” is a specious attempt to envelope the reader into their web of deceit, and it can be discarded after the most rudimentary examination of published histories.

For what possible reason do you continue to refer to the incorrect figure of 4,000,000?

Leon
Simmons

I DO not, but (a) the Jewish archives chief of
Auschwitz, Franciszek Piper did until 1989 (see
image right of the memorial stone he erected)
and threatened those who disputed it with instant
dismissal; (b) Fritjof
Meyer did; (c) others do.