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The officially declared estimate is somewhere around 6 million Jews being killed via all causes, including shootings, gunshots, and concentration camps.
There were around 6 million members of the Nazis.
The genocide is supposed to have taken 4 years.
So each Nazi needs to kill an average of one Jew over the course of 4 years.
On a mathematical and physical level that seems trivial. ONE. It's not Hitler driving around with a gun trying to shoot everyone himself (which would require three kills per minutes without stopping or slowing down). It's the entirety of the Nazi party with weapons and organization vs the entirety of the Jews who are fleeing and mostly not fighting back.
I want to be clear, I am not making the argument that it did actually happen: I have no special expertise, insight, or evidence beyond parroting what other people claim and taking them at their word. But
is such an absurd exaggeration that I feel compelled to object. You either need to study your math, or your physics, or your rhetorical honesty. You're already fighting an uphill battle by going against the mainstream consensus, you're certainly not going to convince anyone to take you seriously if you're not even trying.
Sure you could kill them by distrubuting the murder to the army, but the claims they were all gassed and cremated to an extent that not enough remains can be found in the time allotted isn't possible. That's the whole illegal cookie math shtick. I'll remind you also in parts of the EU even questioning the dubious possibility of the things being claimed is forbidden and enough to throw you in jail.
Since when is the mainstream consensus good for anything, if tomorrow the MSM news told me the sky was blue, I'd go to the window to check, just in case we were being invaded by demons or something.
I don't have to convince anyone, people are already starting to get fed up with the shit the current globalist neolib regime is pulling.
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People sometimes forget the sheer scale of WW2. It truly was total war, or at least the closest approximation ever, unlike almost all that came before or after.
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