I've previously posted here on
holocaustians Professor Deborah Lipstadt
and Professor Peter Novick stating that
the 5,000,000 non-Jews killed in
the Ho£ocaust was a lie, a lie spread by
Simon Wiesenthal of all people.
Back in 1980 Professor Yehuda Bauer
wrote an article entitled Whose
Holocaust which
appeared in the Jewish periodical Midstream
It is apparently no less a man than Simon Wiesenthal, the recent recipent of a well-deserved award for hunting down Nazis, who has invented the "11 million" formula that is a key slogan in the denial of the uniqueness of the Jewish experience. Wiesenthal is going around campuses and Jewish congregations saying that the Holocaust was the murder of 11 million people — the six million Jews and five million non-Jews who were killed in the Nazi camps. In purely historical terms this is sheer nonsense.
The total number of people who died in concentration camps during the war period — excepting Jews and Gypsies — was about half a million, perhaps a little more.
Midstream 26, no.9 (November, 1980): p.43.
