So I found this while browsing the internet. I am not a holocaust denier. However, I cannot explain this and I'd like to hear some professional opinions.
My theory is that there were thousands of such articles by different people and the figures they used were always estimates. Whoever created this picture picked out the ones that happened to mention the number 6,000,000. Is that acurate?
Most of those articles have nothing to do with Nazis or Jewish lives taken by Nazis. They're talking about Jews in other contexts in Europe and used the figure of 6 million as an estimate for the subject they're discussing, based on the number of Jews in the areas being discussed. There are other articles that mention other numbers of Jews that six million. But dumbass Holocaust deniers just pick out all the articles mentioning "6 million" and "Jews" and then act like since at some point in the past, those two items were in the same article together, that that somehow is suspicious. They're making a false association. So yes, it's true that these guys just picked out articles that mentioned 6 million. And be sure to read a bit more of the article, you'll see that most aren't about the holocaust at all. And one of the articles mentions the word "holocaust", but it's not specifically a reference to the genocide of Jews. The word existed before, and it was bound to be found at some point in some article about Jews at some point in the past. This phenomenon demonstrated by the holocaust deniers is a classic logical fallacy, referred to as the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. You can read more about this fallacy here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy Basically, the reference is to someone who fires a bunch of shots at a barn, then draws a bullseye around the shots to make it look like he hit a bullseye. In other words, you point out all the things that support your point, and ignore all those that don't. Except in this case, it's even more incompetent because the references don't even support their point. The Jewish population of Russia was six million, so an article mentioned six million Jews when talking about the Jews of Russia. The European population of Jews was estimated at 12 million, and half were menaced, so in that article, 6 million Jews were mentioned. And in the image you provided, only a small fraction of each article is visible, and the type is very small, so it's hard to read the articles to ascertain that they have nothing to do with the Nazi genocide of Jews.