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To: livius

Williamson is not denying the Holocaust, but he is questioning its scope. It is based on a book that he read (mentioned in the article at source) and the book convinced him. He now promises to study the rebuttals of the book and see if the rebuttals change his mind. That is not a behavior of an irrational person.


24 posted on 02/11/2009 10:08:57 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
Williamson is not denying the Holocaust, but he is questioning its scope.

I couldn't disagree with you more. There's a lot of perfectly-legitimate questioning of the scope of the Holocaust (i.e., Smith says 6.1 million Jews, Jones say 6.8 million, Brown says no, more like 5.4 million). Even Raul Hilberg's seminal work from the early sixties (The Destruction of the European Jews) claimed 5 million as I recall. That number reflected the understanding of the time.

But there's got to be some kind of line beyond which "questioning the scope of the Holocaust" becomes "questioning the Holocaust." I seem to recall this Williamson guy claimed the number was 200,000 to 300,000.

Such a claim serves to deny the systematic murder of at least 5 million Jewish victims (not to mention the non-Jewish victims, a population equally difficult to count with tight precision).

28 posted on 02/11/2009 10:20:10 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: annalex

“Williamson is not denying the Holocaust, but he is questioning its scope. It is based on a book that he read (mentioned in the article at source) and the book convinced him. He now promises to study the rebuttals of the book and see if the rebuttals change his mind. That is not a behavior of an irrational person.”

Yeah, the book convinced Williamson by feeding into his already preconceived notions. He bases the big mouth comments about the Holocaust he has made just recently on reading he did of a book in 1980? What’s he been reading or studying on this subject for the last 29 years of his life? Nothing at all? So to him, the gospel is a book he read 29 years ago and still considers to be the state of the art opinion on the subject of the Holocaust? What a crock. He’s an anti-semite and won’t admit it, but rather seeks cover behind the gospels according to his own interpretation. An anti-semite is an anti-semite is an anti-semite.


80 posted on 02/11/2009 3:28:50 PM PST by flaglady47 (Four years of captivity, no relief in sight)
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