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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2791)	4/5/2003 2:34:30 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

<<< ... Falsification of the genocide undertaken by the Nazis in occupied Europe during the Second World War has, Finkelstein believes, taken place in many respects. First, there is the issue of numbers. No one seriously disputes the fact that between five and six million Jews were killed by the Nazis; however Finkelstein says that the Holocaust industry has recently sought to extract huge compensation by "wildly inflating the number of survivors of the Nazi genocide." "I argue that if we start wildly inflating the number of survivors, then you end up wildly deflating the number of the victims, and so I say that the Holocaust industry has become the main Holocaust denier because they end up reducing radically the number of victims as they radically increase the number of survivors." Secondly, the Holocaust industry is denying another essential aspect of the Nazi genocide, Finkelstein argues, by claiming that so many survived because it is -- in effect -- denying that Jews were systematically killed. If so many survived, then the extermination could not have been systematic. Thirdly, by insisting that the Nazi genocide was directed exclusively at the Jews, they are denying that the Gypsies and other groups faced exactly the same fate. "This is pure racism -- to separate out the fate of the Jews from that of the Gypsies. Their fate was the same." ... >>> weekly.ahram.org.eg