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What I assert is that the Germans had no overarching plan for systematic mass-murder of civilian populations in any form.

They did not plan to —nor did they attempt to— kill all the Gypsies in any country or territory they controlled.
Nor the homosexuals.
Nor the Poles.
Nor the jews.

They did not build nor use gas-chambers for this purpose. Nor did they build or use murder-chambers with electrified floors. Or filled with moving knife blades. Or any other alleged form of mass-murder contraption.

And yes, each of those were alleged as methods of mass-execution during the Holocaust.

Did the Einsatzgruppen kill all the jews in various villages in the occupied territories?
I will grant that they did.
Did large numbers of jewish/homosexual/Gypsy/Polish civilians die in internment camps built and operated by the Germans?
I will grant that they did.

What the evidence does not support is genocide: neither a conspiracy to, nor an attempt to commit.

The Germans were attempting to ethnically cleanse the conquered territories in the east by means of mass deportation. Where large numbers of civillians perished in any specific instance, it was either due to anti-partisan actions committed by the Einsatzgruppen, or disease and starvation caused by disrupted supply chains at the end of the war.

From the firebombing of Dresden and other German cities, to Hiroshima, to the Rhine-Meadow Camps, the Allies were as culpable for mass civilian casualties as the Germans. Far more so in fact.

The mass-murder story of the Holocaust is the only thing that lends ethical superiority to the victors of the war. Those victors continue to maintain the geopoltical order they established in that era. The Holocaust myth is the only thing propping up the moral legitimacy of the postwar order. Which is why more and more Holocaust films, books, and movies are released every year. And why the myth is protected from criticism by harsh criminal and economic penalties.