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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

what do you think about this

Immediately prior to the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world stood at approximately 16.7 million.[33] Statistical figures vary for the contemporary demography of Ashkenazi Jews, ranging from 10 million[1] to 11.2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

[–]HurkaDurka 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I Google the claims about the population decline. There are some claims that the population was adjusted after the fact to reflect the imaginary loss of 6,000,000 lives. On top of this, the pre-war stats for Jewish population was pumped up a few million as well. That doesn't mean a ton of Jewish people didn't die or get killed. Just unlikely that the "6,000,000" figure is accurate. Also considering it's use in the past makes it less likely to be accurate.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't trust any of the numbers out there, to support or disprove, especially from Wikipedia which is heavily censored, guarded, and edited by teams in Israel and around the world.