The Auschwitz Death Toll was a Lie.

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Some Pollock may have said 4 million, but in a google search, every one of the top 10 pages give me a figure of roughly 1 million, so I'd think this is the figure accepted by the establishment. I don't see 4M reported from any media source for Auschwitz

1 million for Auschwitz still seems a bit high, as I suspect the total number of Jews killed in all camps was probably closer to this number than the stated 6 million. Tarrock has suggested the 271K red cross figure for Auschwitz which does seem more plausible.

But I think you are quibbling over semantics here, at least with respect to the numbers. Yes this number is likely exaggerated, but I doubt it matters in terms of how this history is perceived. Do you think anyone would feel substantially different about the holocaust, Jew, Neo-Nazi, or anywhere in between, if the official number were 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 million? I suspect the precise number here matters very little to most people in terms of how they view this event, and most people probably don't even know what the official number is. Hitler rounded up all the Jews, put them in camps, and a big number died, is what I expect most people would remember if you picked people off the street and asked them what they had been taught

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Some Pollock may have said 4 million

4 million was the “official” death toll posted on the entrance and taught to school kids up until 1990 when some brave historians threatened to expose the number and it was quietly changed to 1.1 million and the previous 4 million claim memory holed(despite being cited in encyclopedias prior to 1990).

The fact they were off by 3 million yet never changed the 6 million number is yet more evidence that number is also a lie.

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Was not aware of this change in the official number, thanks for the info

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Correction: It was actually 4 million that was listed on the entrance to Auschwitz and which was taught. I looked it up. For some reason I remember 4.5 million, but it was 4. Jewish and Holocaust industry "scholars" played stupid when the numbers were changed, but some flat out admitted they knew it was a lie and for a decade kept silent about it anyway. They blamed it all on Poles of course, because Jews never lie.

I never heard a plausible explanation of why the death toll being reduced by 3 million never changed the official 6 million number either. One excuse was that the 4 million lie included 3 million polish deaths, but I dont remember more than a handful of Polish deaths being mentioned when I was taught the 4 million number, so it had been implied that the 4 million were mostly Jews. Yet when it was reduced by 3 million no change to the 6 million number was made and people can still be prosecuted in some countries for disputing it.