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February 2, 2017

The Myth of the Holocaust’s Five-Million Gentile Victims

A number without historical basis.

While the Nazis did not restrict their machinery of mass-slaughter to the murder of Jews, the often-cited statistic that there were five-million “others” killed alongside six-million Jews has no basis in historical fact. This myth, which has circulated since the 1970s, has refused to die, despite the efforts of numerous historians. Ron Kampeas writes:

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