Conversation

In this TV show I recently watched there was a scene where a Holocaust survivor and a Neonazi argue about the Holocaust. The Neonazi claims it was a lie by the USA and only 300.000 Jews were executed. The survivor shows him videos, debunks his fake sources and keeps repeating the number of 6 million Jews being murdered. No mention of the actual number of people who were murdered in the concentration camps: 15.5 million. 6.5 million of those Jewish. It puzzles me how the Nazis managed to spin the conversation around the "were it really 6 million" question so effectively, that the 9 million other victims are being completely forgotten. No one talks about them any more, not even those who try to keep the memory of the Holocaust up. The Nazis already won the debate - they already changed the mainstream narrative about their crimes in a way, that makes their crimes appear way less horrifying than they were. They tricked us into forgetting 9 million murders.