Both sides of this debate at this point are myths. We have the dominant myth - that 6 million jews were enslaved pre-slaughter and cremation - and the secondary myth of swimming pools, etc. The generation that lived this is dead. I don't claim confidence in either myth. I don't know what happened. I do know without a doubt that the power structures in both east and west have been lying to their people the entire time since WWII. The dominant myth is clearly rooted in the propaganda campaigns of the war which - for the west - simply rolled over into post-war. But the "opposite" of propaganda doesn't have to be true either.