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[elfs]

As if life couldn't get any uglier today, James P. Hogan, the science fiction author who I enjoyed most as a teenager, announced today that he supports Holocaust Revionism. Not just David Irving's right to speak (Irving was recently sentenced to three years in prison for his Holocaust Revisionist historical writings), but support for the actual "research program" that questions whether or not the Holocaust ever happened and purports to refute the claim that the actual death toll was in "the millions."

Not even the German soldiers on trial at Nuremburg tried to claim that.

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[fallenpegasus]

Hogan has slowly been going insane.

I personally suspect it was this royalties enabled him to quit his dayjob, but he hasn't been going out into the "real world" to refresh his well or to reorient his socialization.

[auroramama]

Are there people out there who doubt that other groups of WWII dead numbered in the millions, like the Russian soldiers? Are there overall WWII revisionists who claim that the whole thing was exaggerated and it was basically just a few lads having a tiff? How about Stalin? I've heard estimates that he had thirty to forty million people killed; is there anyone seriously claiming these days that it was more like a few thousand, or what?

Even weirder, I guess, would be someone who doesn't deny the Holocaust, but still believes that the Jews control everything.