I know that no sane person who has ever studied it (and there are many thousands) has concluded that there is even a remote possibility that the Nazis were not using gas chambers to purposefully exterminate Jewish prisoners, and that’s enough for me.
To play devil's advocate here, just how are we supposed to believe this "study" done by these thousands of people? Honestly, consider that, and don't make assumptions about anti-semitism or some such first. If, here in America, it were illegal to question an accepted number about how many Africans were brought over as slaves how could any real confidence exist about that very number? Science, or history, or any other "study" requires just that, study. Study doesn't happen without discussion, consideration, and debate. Remove debate and discussion, and you don't have any point to continue consideration.
It seems to me that politics has gummed up any discussion of the holocaust until it is a meaningless subject anymore. It is not a study. In Germany people go to jail for questioning the reasoning of others on the subject. And we in America have refused asylum to people who did that and sent them back in order to be imprisoned for doing nothing other than speaking their minds on a doubt and considering an alternative theory based on their interpretation of the facts. I don't care if they are anti-this or that. I can't know that. I can't know if the people here in America that say that less than 100 million Africans were taken from Africa are really motivated by hatred of black people. How could I? And does it make the people saying 100 million automatically right? Without being able to consider the facts publically and sharing the findings there is no study and nothing added to the collective knowledge of man.
Are these people anti-semites? I don't know, and I don't care. That is their sin to carry, and I won't worry myself about it. Do I trust their interpretation? Frankly, no. However, I do find it ironic that I am supposed to believe the number I am told, because if I don't then I am an anti-semite. That is study? That is science? I don't think so. That is political correctness of the most bigotted and ugly variety, and carried to its most absurd and ultimate end.
The many serious scholars who have investigated the events that took place in Nazi death camps have advanced plenty of very solid evidence, including but not limited to hundreds of living witnesses, to back their conclusions. The whackjobs who advance idiotic claims, such as the claim that the gas chambers were used for “disinfection”, consistently fail to present any plausible evidence or credible witnesses.
Good post. As much as we hate to admit it, we too subscribe to a politically correct version of history with certain topics off limits, unexamined critically. Third Reich, Third Rail!