Is it normal that i don't believe details of the holocaust?
I was always taught in school that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. That was the number. THE NUMBER.
As I grew older and understood more about wartime propaganda, I started to doubt that this was really true. It would be too easy to inflate this number in the media - especially with the primitive technology of the time. And the numbers are impossible to verify. It's not like there is a checklist of names that we can go back and count every single one.
And the sheer number of that many people would surely cause many logistical problems. We'll say that the average human body weighs about 150 lbs. That would mean that there would be 450,000 tons of human waste to dispose of.
I recently heard an interview on the radio with someone who brought up these points and many others. The interviewer, instead of addressing the points directly, suggested that his guest had mental problems and asked if he was seeing a psychiatrist. Then he tried to change the topic.
I don't doubt that Jews were taken from their homes and held in prisons where some inevitably died. That is documented historical fact. But I have my doubts about the details of what was actually happening at the concentration camps. And I also wonder why it is so taboo, or offensive even, to have those doubts.