"In Nazi extermination camps: according to Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers, 2,830,000 Jews were murdered in the Nazi death camps (500,000 Belzec; 150,000 Sobibor; 850,000 Treblinka; 150,000 Chełmno; 1,100,000 Auschwitz; 80,000 Majdanek).[194] Raul Hilberg puts the Jewish death toll in the death camps, including Romanian Transnistria, at 3.0 million.[195]
In the USSR by the Einsatzgruppen: Raul Hilberg puts the Jewish death toll in the area of the mobile killing groups at 1.4 million.[195]
Aggravated deaths in the Ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe: Raul Hilberg puts the Jewish death toll in the Ghettos at 700,000.[195]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
With this being said I´ve been to Auschwitz and didn´t felt the chivers down my spine people describe. I´m more affected by attending church or goint to a cemetery. Went to Poland in a stag party and we passed by Arbeit Macht Frei camp. Even made some jokes about some woman photos. They were too ugly to be alive. So we were actually lucky for them to be killed. My group didn´t find it amusing. But it did light the atmosphere though.
Dislike when a narrative is being shoved in my throat without debate. Nothing is beyond debate. Everything is debatable. For me it looked like a prison. Were people died like in many other prisons.
Jews have been persecuted for a long time, by different countries. Surprising for me is only the poor jews and some middle upper class got killed during Shoah. The top jews. Exactly the ones Hitler raged about. All fled safely to UK and US with few exceptions. Innocent people were killed. Small jews living they´re simple life. As others. This should never be repeated. Under no circumstances. Killing someone for their religion is an obscenity. The way to fight jews shortcomings is to burn communism. Communism is filth.
My gut feeling is the numbers are exaggerated. But believe in jews persecution during WWII because there´s sufficient evidence proving this. And only an idiot would say they were not persecuted. They were. The extend of it is debatable.
(The use of number 6 in many WWII events also has some symbology attached to it. 6M jews, 6 years of war, the D-Day was on the 6th. The 666.)
But if the numbers can be wrong the existence of a mass murder is pretty much proven in my book.