[T]here is no particular preponderance for six million. However, when looking up the actual newspaper articles, it turns out that only the entries of seven, six and five million are predominantly about claims of suffering Jews or Jews in danger of being exterminated, with a focus on five and six million. Lower figures are usually about some mundane issue, like how many Jews live in New York or in the U.S. or some other country, for instance.Vidare:
"So what?" You may ask. What is that supposed to prove, if anything? Well, here are some tough questions:
– In 1882, was there a “struggle for the annihilation of the Jews”?
– In 1903, did the Russian government decide that Jews “must be annihilated,” so that they underwent a “process of extermination” in “this barbaric holocaust”?
– In 1905, was there a “holocaust” in which “Jews must be … exterminated?”
– In 1906, was “the Russian Government’s policy” to solve “the Jewish question” by way of “murderous extermination”?
– In 1911, had “Russia … adopted” a “plan to … exterminate six million” Jews?
– In 1915, was there a “Russian campaign of extermination” against the Jews?
– In 1919, were “six million” Jews “dying… in this threatened holocaust?” Were “6,000,000 [Jewish] souls… going to be completely exterminated”?
– In 1920, was it necessary “to save six million [Jews] from extermination”?
– In 1921, were “Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews… facing extermination by massacre”?
– In 1926, was the “whole [Jewish] people… dying”?
To ask these questions in such a condensed form means to answer them, because what we are dealing with here was exaggeration and hyperbole. To ask these questions in such a condensed form means to answer them, because what we are dealing with here was exaggeration and hyperbole. Fact is that prior to the Communist Revolution, holocaust and extermination claims were exaggerations used to lobby for:
– facilitation of Jewish immigration to the U.S. and to other countries,
– creation of a Jewish national homeland,
– and “regime change” in Russia.
Once that “regime change” had been accomplished in Russia at the end of World War One, holocaust and extermination claims didn’t cease but rather continued. This time these exaggerations were used:
– to raise funds meant to assist Jewish communities in Eastern Europe,
– to defeat the czarist counter-revolution and thus,
– to effectively stabilize the fledgling Communist regime in Russia.
The advent of the Third Reich led to the repetition of some of these patterns: holocaust and extermination claims were exaggerated at least until the outbreak of the German-Soviet war.
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