“But if the third Reich killed only three million (a figure unsupported by the evidence by the way), do you suppose that this makes them only HALF as reprehensible, only HALF as evil, or just less competent in their perfidy?”
None of the above. I guess what interests me about this is that it’s another one of those things we’re not even allowed to question.
But it is a truism that is almost axiomatic that almost everyone who DOES “question” the figure has a rather sinister motivation for doing so.
Mel Gibson defended his fathers Holocaust denial, and many hoped that there was not an accompanying antisemitism that went along with it; but like ducks and water - the two just seem to go together.
Also, one is most certainly allowed to CHALLENGE the figures with contrary historic evidence, it is just that the evidence of what the Nazis did, and what they INTENDED to do are an absolutely backed by ironclad historic evidence; while the “scholarship” of those who challenge the scale, intent of, and even the existence of the Holocaust tends towards outlandish conspiracy theories to accompany their brain dead racism.