- Most people think that the figure "six million"
emerged during World War II, when it was claimed that Germany killed that
many Jews in the "Holocaust."* But the magic six-million figure
dates back to 1900. Here a distinguished educator and historical investigator from
Australia shows how this number first appeared in its current mystical configura-
tion, as he presents sequentially items gleaned from articles published
in The New York Times between 1900 and 1920.
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- May 7, 1920: "Jewish war sufferers in Central
and Eastern Europe,
- where six million face horrifying conditions
of famine, disease
- and death."
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- May 5, 1920: "[T]o save six million men
and women in Eastern
- Europe from extermination by hunger and disease."
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- May 5, 1920: "Six million starving, fever-stricken
sufferers in
- war-torn Europe appeal to us.
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- May 3, 1920: "Your help is needed to save the lives
of six million
- people in Eastern and Central Europe.
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- May 2, 1920: " . . . Six million human
beings, without food, shelter,
- clothing or medical treatment."
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- May 1, 1920: "But the lives of six million human
beings are waiting
- for an answer."
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- Nov. 12, 1919: " . . . tragically unbelievable
poverty, starvation
- and disease about six million souls, or half
the Jewish population of
- the Earth . . . a million children and five million parents
and elders."
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- Sept. 29, 1919: " . . . tragically unbelievable
poverty, starvation and
- disease . . . about six million souls, or half
the Jewish population
- of the Earth."
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- Aug. 10, 1917: "Germans Let Jews Die. Women and
Children in
- Warsaw Starving to Death . . . Jewish mothers, mothers
of mercy,
- feel happy to see their nursing babies die; at least
they are through
- with their suffering."
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- Jan. 14, 1915: "In the world today there are about
13 million Jews,
- of whom more than six million are in the heart
of the war zone;
- Jews, whose lives are at stake and who today are subjected
to
- every manner of suffering and sorrow . . . "
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- But to go one step further back in time. In 1900, Rabbi
Stephen Wise made the following
statement for Jewish welfare organizations in the United States:
"There are six million living,
bleeding, suffering argu- ments in favor of Zionism." [Editor's italics]
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- And now you know the reason for the six-million figure.
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- August 11, 2008 American Free Press
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- * The figure was re-introduced in 1944 by Ilya Ehrenburg,
Stalin's rabid anti-German hate propagandist.
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- Dr. Fredrick Töben is an educator in Australia and
founder of the Adelaide Institute, a think tank devoted to critical
examination of modern historical questions. At the behest of the
Australian Jewish community he is currently facing federal charges
for questioning various aspects of The Holocaust® myth
online. His proscribed Website is: www.adelaideinstitute.org.
The American Free Press can be reached at: mailto:afpeditor@americanfreepress.net.
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