What I want to say is I wonder about the 6 million figure. It's this revisionist idea in history. After WWII the figure was around 1 million killed by the Nazis. Worked up and sat at 1.5 million for a long time. Lately it's jumped to 2, 3, 4, 5 and now 6 million. It seems, and in not only this, that everyone takes a figure and hedges it a bit and it becomes a new standard.
I'm younger than you, so my study of history sometimes must take text books for your eye witness. Still, I don't think you were around during WWII -- do you have a guess as to the exact number executed by the Nazi regime? You say estimates have jumped "lately," but that's a relative term and I have heard six million my whole life, counting only Jews. I expect the historical record to become more, not less, accurate as we proceed; you imply the opposite.
I realize you weren't there to count the Nazi dead, you're only claiming that the estimates have increased. But most advocates for a lower figure, I've noticed, seem not to be historians, but (at best) quasi-facist ideologues. That's not you.
So, if the estimates have jumped, how did that happen?
Why did that happen? |
