[Cicero]

I take it I agree with you on this. Frankly, I don't think it makes an awful lot of difference whether 6,000,000 or 5,500,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. To say that it never happened, or to minimize its significance, is another matter.

I also don't see why it detracts from the significance of the Holocaust to point out that maybe 4,000,000 Catholic Poles were killed in the same camps, purely because they were Catholic and Polish, or that between them Hitler and Stalin managed to kill more than 50,000,000 people in war or prison camps by the time the war was over. The Holocaust was still staggeringly evil, and it detracts nothing from it to say, as Mel Gibson evidently did to Peggy Noonan, that it was not the only evil committed in those days.

[SJackson]

I also don't see why it detracts from the significance of the Holocaust to point out that maybe 4,000,000 Catholic Poles were killed in the same camps, purely because they were Catholic and Polish,

It doesn't. Frankly I don't know anyone who views it that way, although I read a lot about it here.

or that between them Hitler and Stalin managed to kill more than 50,000,000 people in war or prison camps by the time the war was over.

I'd agree with you there too, however you have to recognize that a substantial portion of the world's population, including the nations he victimized, would disagree about the horrific nature of communism, viewing Stalin the same way Marge Schott viewed Hitler, ...Everybody knows he was good at the beginning but he just went too far