[SJackson]

I disagree. It's one thing to deny that the Holocaust happened. That's holocaust denial. It's quite another thing to question the "6 million" figure that is often quoted. I'm more concerned with historical fact than "offending" people.

Hutton says it didn't happen, that engineering the Holocaust was technically infeasable, and that 6 million Jews simply moved from Poland to Brooklyn and LA, or his alternate version they went to Israel, emigration being the source of the Holohoax, in Hutton's opinion. His firmly held opinions should be condemned, not minimized.

[Cicero]

I take it I agree with you on this. Frankly, I don't think it makes an awful lot of difference whether 6,000,000 or 5,500,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. To say that it never happened, or to minimize its significance, is another matter.

I also don't see why it detracts from the significance of the Holocaust to point out that maybe 4,000,000 Catholic Poles were killed in the same camps, purely because they were Catholic and Polish, or that between them Hitler and Stalin managed to kill more than 50,000,000 people in war or prison camps by the time the war was over. The Holocaust was still staggeringly evil, and it detracts nothing from it to say, as Mel Gibson evidently did to Peggy Noonan, that it was not the only evil committed in those days.