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.
Yes, 20 is still mass murder. But if he denies the existence of gas chambers, he denies the purely exterminationist, annihilationist aspect of the Holocaust.
As far as I’m concerned, beyond say five persons is mass murder. Williamson’s claims serve to deny about 5.5 million mass murders.
Further, denying gas chambers denies the essential character of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the vernichtungslager, the “extermination camp” at Auschwitz—as opposed to Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Monowitz, etc., the arbeitslagern, “work camps”—and similarly denies the systematic, industrialized nature of the Holocaust....a very dangerous prospect.