[gondramB]

>>In his interview, Finkelstein stated that the number of the Jewish survivors from the Holocaust had been grossly inflated by the "Holocaust industry" in order to blackmail Europe.<<

Why would it benefit Jews to inflate the number of suvivors?

Is that backwards? Actually I guess we should not expect these people to make sense.

[goldstategop]

So the Jews can collect more money per survivor?? Ahh, now we're on the oldest anti-Semitic trope. The Jewish love of money. What has been paid in compensation to Israel and survivors does not come close to making the Jewish people whole. You can't put monetary value on human lives destroyed, which by definition are irreplaceable. But don't expect Finkelstein to bring that up the next time he rants about the alleged nefarious doings of the "Holocaust industry."

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

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Finkelstein was saying that the definition of "survivor" changed over time. Right after the war, Jews who had left Europe in 1938 or 1939 weren't counted as "survivors" of genocide. The survivors, in those early days, were those, like his own parents, who had actually been in concentration camps. Also, Jews who had survived the war in hiding may also not have been considered "survivors" in the same way as those who were in the camps. According to Finkelstein, the number of survivors was "inflated" after the war by counting those who had not been fully subject to the killing machine. Whether he was right or wrong, he wasn't making the claim that is attributed to him.