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''Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth At Last'' is a Holocaust denial pamphlet allegedly written by British National Front member Richard Verrall under the pseudonym ''Richard E. Harwood'' and published by Ernst Zündel in 1974. The NF denied that Verrall was the author in a 1978 edition of ''World in Action''. The Canadian government put Zündel on trial for publishing it. Zündel, in turn, hired Fred A. Leuchter to visit the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps, to make the Leuchter report〔'Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zundel - 198. Edited by Barbara Kulaszka. ()〕 as part of Zündel's legal defense.〔'Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zundel - 198. Edited by Barbara Kulaszka ()〕 ==The booklet== In the work, Verrall doubts the Holocaust death toll, criticising the claim which says that "no less than six million Jews exterminated" in concentration camps. The booklet targets various war crime trials, the best known of these being the Nuremberg Trials and the Adolf Eichmann trial, criticising their legal integrity and the standards of evidence presented, as well as the impartiality and objectivity of the judges. Verrall also attempts to demonstrate in the book that censuses and population charts show that the European Jewish population figures do not allow for a figure of six million Jews to have been exterminated. He argues that the total Jewish population in Nazi-controlled Europe after emigrations and evacuations was "around three million". He further argues that the scale of the Holocaust had been exaggerated by the Allies # to hide their own guilt over such things as the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese cities, the air raids of predominantly civilian towns such as Dresden, and the Allies' own human-rights abuses〔 # and as a pretext for the establishment of the state of Israel, which he predicates on the commission of atrocities against the Palestinian population.〔"Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth At Last" by Richard Verrall〕 Verrall's aim is to argue that the history of the 'six million' holocaust is used to discourage any form of nationalism and is a danger to the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon race: "''No one could have anything but admiration for the way in which the Jews have sought to preserve their race through so many centuries, and continue to do so today. In this effort they have frankly been assisted by the story of the Six Million, which, almost like a religious myth, has stressed the need for greater Jewish racial solidarity. Unfortunately, it has worked in quite the opposite way for all other peoples, rendering them impotent in the struggle for self-preservation''."〔'Did Six Million Really Die?' by Richard E. Harwood (AKA Verral). Introduction, pg4. AAARGH online edition, 2005〕 In discussing the Gerstein report, the pamphlet states that "Gerstein's sister was congenitally insane and died by euthanasia", effectively admitting the mass murder of civilians by the Nazis in the T4 program. In writing his booklet, Verrall had used material published in the 1950s and 1960s and most of the inaccuracies of his booklet were errors originally made by Paul Rassinier whose works Verrall had used extensively.〔'Did Six Million Really Die? Report of the Evidence in the Canadian 'False News' Trial of Ernst Ztindel - 198. Edited by Barbara Kulaszka. Page 491. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Did Six Million Really Die?」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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