re: #210 Nyet

The Nazis were indeed very thorough but most of the documentation was destroyed, we only have fragments of it, which is why we can only rely on the quite crude demographic data for the whole number, which will always have a margin of error of hundreds of thousands - which is why I, for example, always say “between 5 and 6 million”. There is a whole range of numbers in the literature (Hilberg’s estimate was 5.1 million).

“6 million” is indeed a “media number”, but you can’t go on explaining the complexities involved each time you mention it, so while it is indeed a simplification, it’s an inevitable one.

All of this Adams could have learned by googling around a bit.

But you can’t trust Wikipedia.

Nevermind that everything in Wikipedia leads back to original sources.

Adams doesn’t want to learn it. Adams already knows what he knows, and that is the Holocaust is either inflated or a hoax. It is very difficult to argue with true believers (try it with a religious person sometimes; Holocaust denial is a religion too).

Saying “show me the proof” is nothing more than deflection. He knows the proof is there; he doesn’t believe the proof.