Deborah E. Lipstadt Quotes
In Fact, This Figure [five Million "murdered" Gentiles] Is Too High If One Is Counting Victims Who Were Targeted Exclusively For Racial Reasons, But Too Low If One Counts The Total Number Of Victims The Nazi Regime Killed Outside Military Operations.
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Wiesenthal's Aggrandizement Of His Role In The Eichmann Capture Is Far Less Disturbing And Historiographically Significant Than Another Of His Inventions. In An Attempt To Elicit Non-Jewish Interest In The Holocaust, Wiesenthal Decided To Broaden The Population Of Victims - Even Though It Meant Falsifying History. He Began To Speak Of Eleven Million Victims: Six Million Jews And Five Million Non-Jews. Holocaust Historian Yehuda Bauer Immediately Recognized That This Number Made No Historical Sense. Who, Bauer Wondered, Constituted Wiesenthal's Five Million.
--The Eichmann Trial, Page 8
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