/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16098268
Dr. Aurthur Butz, author of "Hoax of the Twentieth Century", made a good point in his Y2K speech to the I.H.R.

>No matter how the death tolls are revised at this or that camp, it seems to be the rule that the total should still always work out to be about six million.

Six million is a totemic number when it comes to jewish claims about genocide. But it's hardly the only ludicrous number bandied about.

The first extra-biblical jewish genocide claim comes from Philo Judaeus's account of the Alexandrian Pogrom in 38 A.D. He wrote that 40 million jews were stuffed into buildings with smouldering wood, which suffocated them. Then the buildings were burned so nothing remained but ashes.

Sounds familiar.

>>16098355
>No you wouldn't. Fucking wikipedia mentions it's "unclear" how much of the book is historical fact.
It sounds unbelievable, but you would. People have gone to prison in Germany for repeating official, historical-consensus opinions about the holocaust.

>>16098392
>What, did you find it too hard? Or too intimidating?

Nope. I gave it my best shot. I discovered that despite reading three canonical books about the holocaust, spending over ten hours in the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C., and attending lectures by supposed survivors, my actual knowledge about the holocaust was utterly superficial. I had all kinds of personal horror-stories in my head. I knew all about the children who didn't die of gas and so were killed by chloroform injection at the hands of Mengele. About how the mad doctor directed prisoners to work or death with a wave of his finger whilst listening to Wagner. About tattoos and shaven heads and starvation in the cold.

But I didn't have a historical timeline. I didn't know how the camps were laid out. I couldn't name an Auschwitz subcamp, or tell you how many there were. I didn't know what Operation Reinhardt was. Or how Zyklon was used in commercial delousing.