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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

My question is this and I'll put it in bold so you can't miss it:
If, for decades, the official number of dead in Auschwitz was 4 million but then, one day, that number was reduced to 1.5 million, how can the total number of 6 million remain unchanged and, moreover, how can we be confident that the 6 million figure is accurate?

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Let's also remember that Auschwitz was only one of 15,000 labor, death, and concentration camp built by the Nazis.

There's your answer good chap.

There were thousands of Nazi death camps where prisoners were held and killed, and the 6 million total figure was calculated completely separately to the original four million Auschwitz estimate, not by "adding up known totals for each camp".

In simple terms;

- They were confident in the total estimate of 6 million total, based on the population before and after the holocaust.

- They estimated 4 million at Auschwitz and 2 million elsewhere.

- Thorough examination revealed a more accurate figure of 1.5 million for Auschwitz.

- They are STILL confident in the 6 million total figure, the only difference is that 4.5 million must have been elsewhere, not 2 million. Which really makes more sense (2/3 killed in one location seems unlikely).




You need to stop reading Nazi / holocaust denial propaganda sites, there are clearly some perfectly simple explanations for your "great mysteries". It's like the argument that there's evidence that not as many were gassed as thought, like the fact that they were shot or executed by various other means is some sort of important revelation. Exactly where they were held, and how they were killed, is not really the most relevant detail, and questioning those things isn't holocaust denial. Attempting to revise down the total death toll - or claim that it didn't happen at all - is a completely different story and --- most importantly --- has completely different motivations.