Holocaust Denial Videos

[Chaos]

Yeah, that's about what I thought.

How were these numbers estimated? I'm not a denier, but it'd be nice to have some mileage in the subject when I stumble upon one.

For example, Jewish population in the various areas before and after the Holocaust was compared. According to Shermer´s "Why People Believe Weird Things", that yields a result of 5.75 million.

And, while we're at it, how many "other" (Slavs, Romanis, homosexuals, etc) were killed? I've heard numbers between 5 and 11 million.

I guess that depends on how many you want to include in the Holocaust; the Soviet Union for example had 12-14 million civilian deaths, Poland had about 2.5 million civilian deaths, and so on, the bulk of which were the direct result of the same general policies of which the Jewish Holocaust was one part. Including only Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Romani (i.e. gypsies), disabled and homosexuals, you´ll arrive at more or less the same number as for Jews - plus or minus several hundred thousand. If you want to include any non-German who died as a direct result of Nazi policies, you´ll probably get to 25-30 million, if not more.

 

[Horatius]

And in the spirit of not re-inventing the wheel, I'll just quote myself here, and ask if this new fellow can give us any better reason to watch Budly's nonsense than Budly himself gave us.....

You mean after all this time you've never watched them?

Well, if you want me to give you a reason, it's that he's clearly invested a good deal of time studying the issue, so the least you could do is take a look at his videos and critique them. Wouldn't you like to tear holes in his arguments and prove him wrong?

Sigh. I suspected as much......