It was 1990 precisely, when he wrote an article...for I think the NYT
where he questioned the 6 million dead figure as being inflated by groups who had a interest in higher numbers
he has never denied the Holocaust
I personally don't know what the precise figures are nor do I care ...it seems like it was a whole lot regardless and my views on Pat are about 50/50 but to claim he is a Holocaust denier is playing loose with the facts
“he has never denied the Holocaust”
I wish it were true, but ...
“Worst of all, Buchanan did not shrink from affirming in his own voice the vicious and lunatic theories of Holocaust deniers. For example, Buchanan wrote that “the Israeli court... concluded the murder weapon... was [a] diesel engine ... which drove its exhaust into the death chamber .... The problem is: diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” This is sheer nonsense. Roughly a third of the six million Jews exterminated were done in by diesel exhaust, and if it is non-lethal then the Holocaust is what the people who taught this stuff to Buchanan say it is—a hoax. The same holds for Buchanan’s bizarre assertion that 1,600 medical papers have been written about “Holocaust survivor syndrome,” which involves “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” In short Buchanan made himself the mouthpiece for Holocaust revisionists and the tribune of accused Nazis, and thereby marked himself with a shame that no verdict can erase.”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n23_v45/ai_14753228/pg_2