[Petronski]

Well, he is not denying the Holocaust in essence: deliberate, utterly evil mass murder of Jews based on their ethnicity alone.

I think the key to my point is "mass" murder. He's off by at least one order of magnitude.

Worse still, I believe he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz (note that he attributes his views to Leuchter, who made that same denial).

[annalex]

Right, that’s the book that convinced him, Leuchter. He promises to study the rebuttals to it. Good for him.

200,000 is still mass murder. In fact, 20 is already a mass murder. The holocaust denying I cannot stomach is one that says that those killed deserved it. That is not what we have here, at least based on Williamson’s public record.

[steve-b]

I think the key to my point is "mass" murder. He's off by at least one order of magnitude.

More significantly, he describes them as "fortunes of war" civilian deaths rather than systematic genocide.