
Originally Posted by
Spino
It is rather futile to seek finality, let alone any kind of closure over this issue because people (or more specifically, historians) are going to argue over the actual number who died in the holocaust for the next... oh, several millenia or so. There's really no point or sense to the level of contentiousness, especially amongst non-historians with a personal bone to pick with the murderers or the victims. It makes it even more difficult when you consider the equally imprecise number of Gypsies, Poles, undesirables, etc. who were also deliberately dispatched during the Holocaust.
It really doesn't matter whether it was 1.5 million or 6 million. We know it was in the millions and more importantly we know the reason why they perished. The sad but oddly comforting truth of the matter is eventually the Holocaust will join the long list of mass murders commited through the ages and itself will become a footnote of history. Comforting in that we now have a reasonable means by which to gauge and predict the behavior and trends which can lead to such events.
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