Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Raz Segal on Gaza & 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation

[Uncle Joe]

Holocaust survivors on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Nazi Germany exterminated over 1 million Jews and other minority groups between 1940 and 1945. The commemoration comes as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles worldwide and far-right forces gain strength across Europe and the United States. For more, we speak with Israeli American historian Raz Segal, who says the academic field of Holocaust studies has a blind spot when it comes to Israel and its actions in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the genocidal assault on Gaza. "Since October 2023, so many Holocaust scholars have gone out of their way to protect Israel," says Segal. "It's very grotesque."

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[Hieronymus Phact]

1. 1 million? Get real please.

"Nazi Germany exterminated over 1 million Jews and other minority groups between 1940 and 1945"

Can someone please read a book once in a while?
That number is more like 21 million!

"Over 1 million": technically true but grossly undercounted.

[Uncle Joe]

2. That paragraph is only referring to Auschwitz, not all the death camps.

Also everything that I have read estimates the total count at six million.

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. correct on the location.

However the 6 million figure refers to Jews only, if you include other undesirables who went to the camps with them, the number is 21 Million. Jews being the largest single group, were accompanied by Poles, Roma, Homosexuals, mentally disabled, political opponents, and others.

[Uncle Joe]

4. The Holocaust Museum in Houston cites a figure of 11 million including non-Jewish people

but then follows up by stating that the five million isn't well documented.



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Documenting the Numbers

A common statistic claims 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis (6 million Jews and 5 million others). While the number of 6 million Jews is supported by evidence, the 5 million others is not. It was invented by the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
Learn more about documenting the numbers of Nazi victims.

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https://hmh.org/about/25-facts-about-holocaust/