h0Ɩ0cαųst denial is widely viewed as failing to adhere to rules for the treatment of evidence, principles that mainstream historians (as well as scholars in other fields) regard as basic to rational inquiry.[17]

The h0Ɩ0cαųst was well docuмented by the bureaucracy of the nαzι government itself.[18][19] It was further witnessed by the Allied forces who entered Germany and its associated Axis states towards the end of World War II.[20][21][22]

According to researchers Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, there is a "convergence of evidence" that proves that the h0Ɩ0cαųst happened. This evidence includes:[23]

“ Written docuмents—hundreds of thousands of letters, memos, blueprints, orders, bills, speeches, articles, memoirs, and confessions.
Eyewitness testimony—accounts from survivors, Jєωιѕн Sonderkommandos (who helped load bodies from the gas chambers into the crematoria in exchange for the promise of survival), SS guards, commandants, local townspeople, and even high-ranking nαzιs who spoke openly about the mass murder of the Jєωs.
Photographs—including official military and press photographs, civilian photographs, secret photographs taken by survivors, aerial photographs, German and Allied film footage, and unofficial photographs taken by the German military.
The camps themselves—cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs, work camps, and extermination camps that still exist in varying degrees of originality and reconstruction.
Inferential evidence—population demographics, reconstructed from the pre–World War II era; if six million Jєωs were not killed, what happened to them?
 ”

Much of the controversy surrounding the claims of h0Ɩ0cαųst deniers centers on the methods used to present arguments that the h0Ɩ0cαųst allegedly never happened as commonly accepted. Numerous accounts have been given by h0Ɩ0cαųst deniers (including evidence presented in court cases) of claimed facts and evidence; however, independent research has shown these claims to be based upon flawed research, biased statements, or even deliberately falsified evidence. Opponents of h0Ɩ0cαųst denial have docuмented numerous instances in which such evidence was altered or manufactured (see Nizkor Project and David Irving). According to Pierre Vidal-Naquet, in our society of image and spectacle, extermination on paper leads to extermination in reality.[24]

Quote from: gladius_veritatis

Wicked...pedia...

Nuff said :)

Hey, I bet you can find an article debunking BOTH 'h0Ɩ0cαųst Denial' AND 9/11... that quotes Cass Sunstein as an authority!!

Spouting such conspiracy theories gives people like Cass Sunstein a big hammer to smack over our heads.  

The Sacred Nature of Six Million in the Judaic Religion

Why Six Million h0Ɩ0cαųst Victims Cannot be Questioned




Michael Fishwick,

11th February 2009 (Our Lady of Lourdes).



"After the destruction of the Temple (70 AD), the rabbinic exegesis has replaced faith in the Mosaic Messiah with that of the "collective messiah", which is the Jєωιѕн people. Christianity can not accept this Jєωιѕн sacralization of the h0Ɩ0cαųst without the denial of its identity and faith. The only h0Ɩ0cαųst is the sacrifice of Christ. To accept another "h0Ɩ0cαųst" of salvation and 'meta-historical act' next to that of Jesus would be an act of apostasy. Unfortunately, the new Judaic theology of the council, and after the council, has taken hold of progressive Catholics. We hope and pray that it does not pollute Tradition. It is therefore a duty to warn the faithful shepherds."

- Don Curzio Nitoglia, translated from Il Caso Williamson, 28th January, 2009.



Introduction

Some commentary on the statement of Fr. Nitoglia may be instructive in regard to understanding why the figure of 'Six Million h0Ɩ0cαųst' victims is sacred to the Jєωs.

The "unquestionable" number of Six Million Jєωιѕн h0Ɩ0cαųst victims is not based upon docuмented historic fact, nor even particularly upon demographic estimation, but above all is a mystical number that relates in a fundamental manner to the religious belief system of Judaism.



The New York based Museum of Jєωιѕн Heritage, for example, in regard to "the memory of the six million Jєωs who perished." reveals that: "Zachor, to remember, is a sacred Jєωιѕн obligation." (my bold emphasis).

Examples of religious phraseology in regard to Six Million Jєωιѕн victims of The h0Ɩ0cαųst are plentiful and easily found by use of simple internet searches.

On a purely natural level a Christian can understand that Jєωs might consider the suffering and death of Jєωιѕн victims of the Shoah (catastrophe) to be 'Kiddush Hashem' - 'martyrs'. Further investigation using the Jєωιѕн chabad.org Knowledge Base reveals that, for Jєωs, the concept of 'Kiddush Hashem' has a much deeper meaning in that it is a "sanctification of G-d's Name."

What is not so commonly realised, or understood, by Christians is how the Six Million figure relates integrally to the occult teachings that the Jєωιѕн religion is based upon.

Before proceeding further it will be necessary to distinguish between two commonly used words that are often used interchangeably with resulting obfuscation of the subject.

'Shoah' is an anglicized spelling of a Hebrew word that means 'catastrophe' or 'calamity'. That millions of Jєωιѕн people suffered horrific calamity involving widespread persecution and many deaths during World War Two is not in dispute.

h0Ɩ0cαųst, by contrast, is a word of Greek origin meaning 'burnt whole' and is defined in the dictionary as "a sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames". The anglicised Hebrew word for 'burnt offering' or 'burnt sacrifice' is 'Olah' (pronounced 'o-law'). It derives from the Hebrew word for 'elevation'. That the corpses of many thousands of Jєωs (and others) were burnt in crematoriums in nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs after suffering death from typhus and other disease is not at issue either.

What is disputed is the claim that Six Million Jєωs were murdered by cyanide gas in purpose built homocidal gas chambers in nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs.

If it is true that Jєωs, as Jєωs, collectively suffered genocidal extermination and cremation in cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs, then 'h0Ɩ0cαųst' is indeed a valid historic, as well as Judaic religious, description. If it is not true, then the description of 'h0Ɩ0cαųst', as well as the "sacred" figure of Six Million, belongs entirely to Jєωιѕн religious mythology and must be opposed by Catholics both as a matter of historical truth and religious truth.

The enormous amount of data from divers fields of research that indicates very strongly that homicidal gas chambers did not exist in nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs is not the purpose of this study, and will not be summarised here. Rather, the purpose of the study is to reveal, largely from Jєωιѕн sources, that the fabled 'Six Million' is a religious mantra recited by Jєωs as an integral practise of the Jєωιѕн religion.



The Sacred Six Million

The Jєωιѕн religion is based upon:

1) 'Written Torah' ('Tanakh') which consists of books of the Old Testament;

2) 'Oral Torah' ('Mishnah') which Jєωs believe God taught to Moses and was handed down orally through the generations until being compiled in book form in the second century;

3) later rabbinical commentaries on 'Mishnah' called 'Gemara' which were compiled together with 'Mishnah' in the 5th century and became known collectively as 'тαℓмυd';

4) 'Midrashim' which are anecdotal stories expanding upon written or oral 'Torah';

5) and 'Kabbalah' which is the mystical teaching of Judaism, the primary body of which is known as 'Zohar'.

A fundamental constituent of Jєωιѕн mystical gnosis is the practice of 'Gematria', a type of numerology that assigns numerical value to the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. It involves the calculation of numerical equivalence and relationship between letters, words and phrases in order to find mystical insights and hidden teaching that Jєωs believe God planted into 'Torah'. Rabbi Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh explains that: "Since the world was created through God's 'speech', each letter represents a different creative force."

Certain letters, and the corresponding numerical value, are considered in Judaism to have greater mystical power than others because of the frequency with which they are found in 'Torah'. One such value, the expression of which holds a predominant power in the Jєωιѕн psyche, is the Hebrew letter 'vav' which has a numerical value of six. As well as its obvious relationship to the six days of creation and the Jєωιѕн sabbath Rabbi Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh reveals much of its esoteric connotation in his book The Alef-Beit: Jєωιѕн Thought Revealed Through the Hebrew Letters. For example, one learns that: "the consummate structure of six (as in the form of the Magen David [Star of David], the outer area of whose six 'wings' equals, and therefore folds onto, the area of its inner hexagon), reflected by the six orders of the Mishnah, finds its source in the dimensions of the Tablets given to Moses at Sinai. They were cubes measuring six handbreadths in each direction." A cube has six faces, of course.

The superstitious 'power' of 'six' in the Jєωιѕн mind can be found, for example, in the fact that the United States h0Ɩ0cαųst Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. was purposely designed so that the display floors of photographs and artifacts of the Permanent Exhibition cover a space of 36,000 square feet. In 'Gematria' it is understood that this represents six thousand multiplied by six thousand. At the end of the tour the visitor enters the six thousand square foot Hall of Remembrance, which has six sides symbolising the six-pointed Star of David, and the six 'extermination' camps where 'Six Million' Jєωs were slaughtered. One can also find there a collection of six thousand children's hand-painted tiles. Yaffa Sonenson, a member of the U.S. h0Ɩ0cαųst Commission donated, according to a sympathetic review of the museum penned by Barbara Beckwith for the online St. Anthony Messenger, a collection of six thousand photographs.

We learn from the spirituality section of chabad.org in its "Letters of Light - Vav" that: "Six also represents completion, because something that is surrounded on all six sides-north, south, east, west, above and below-is complete. Similarly we find that when the Jєωιѕн people left the land of Egypt, G-d surrounded them with six Clouds of Glory... The number six also signifies the six hundred thousand Jєωιѕн men aged 20-60 who left the land of Egypt. It additionally represents the Torah... There are six hundred thousand letters of the Torah, and if one letter of the Torah is missing or broken or cracked, G-d forbid, the entire Torah scroll is declared not kosher-unfit to be read. Similarly, if one Jєω strays from the path, or is missing or defiled, the entire Jєωιѕн nation is likewise lacking or defiled. We are rendered incomplete... We find another instance of 'six' when the Jєωιѕн people were in Egypt and oppressed with backbreaking work. Pharaoh devised many plots against the Jєωιѕн people to keep them from multiplying. Yet the Jєωs continued to propagate at an unbelievable rate. Indeed, the Torah tells us that the Jєωιѕн women bore six children at one time... Thus the vav teaches us the monumental effect we have on the world by being connected on high and bringing the Torah down to earth in our thoughts, speech and actions."

Rabbi Ginsburgh reveals that the secret of the word 'truth' resides in the "triangle of six" and, for that reason, the Hebrew letter 'vav' is known as "the letter of truth", its numerical value 'six' being "the power which links together the souls of Israel." The triangle of six instantly reminds one again of the six-pointed Star of David that is composed of triangles. It also brings to mind the fact that a triangle consists of three sides or three points. Three points consisting of six? 666?

Judaism teaches that God created six hundred thousand Jєωιѕн souls and these souls, according to the rabbis, correspond to the six hundred thousand letters in the written 'Torah'. In a translated text entitled "600,000 Souls, 600,000 Letters" Rabbi Rabbeinu Yaakov Abuchatzeira reveals that:

"The word 'Israel' can be read as an acronym for 'Yesh Shishim Ribo Otiot LaTorah', meaning: 'There are six hundred thousand letters in the Torah'. Therefore, Israel did not leave Egypt until there were six hundred thousand of them, in order for each soul to be 'supported' by one letter in the Torah, as we have written in a number of places... Since the name 'Israel' alludes to the fact that the number of letters in the Torah corresponds to the number of souls, it follows that when the Jєωιѕн People come to count their souls [take a census], the accuser comes and accuses them saying, 'Master of the universe, didn't Israel only reach this size population in order to match the number of letters in the Torah which are hinted at in their name? And now they are negligent in [the Torah]!' This becomes the substance of the accusation. Furthermore, the word 'negef', meaning 'a scourge', has the same numerological value as 'Samael', the Angel of Destruction, short two. ('Negef' equals 133, while 'Samael' equals 131.) The missing two allude to the two Torahs (Oral and Written). When Israel are lax in the two Torahs, two powers are added to those of the forces of evil, and it becomes 'negef', a scourge, and afflicts them, G-d forbid."

Rabbi Zev Reichman, in a partly published online book named Chassidus, confirms the rabbinical teaching of 'six hundred thousand souls, six hundred thousand letters'. In footnote, 19, of 'Lesson Six, The Body Can Complement the Soul', the rabbi states plainly that Jєωιѕн souls are "pieces of the Divine", part of God Himself.

"The Zohar teaches that God, Torah, and Israel are one. In truth, God clothed himself in the thoughts and words of Torah, and Jєωιѕн souls are pieces of the Divine as well; thus Torah, Israel and God are linked in an intrinsic manner. Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (1740-1810) explained a Scriptural ambiguity with this principle.

'As God commanded Moses, he counted them (the Jєωs) in the Sinai desert.' (Numbers 1:19) One can ask, it should have written, 'He counted them in the Sinai desert as God commanded Moses?' Behold, God gave the Torah to the Jєωιѕн people, and the souls of Jєωs are the essence of the Torah, for there are 600,000 Jєωιѕн souls and 600,000 letters in the Torah scroll. In fact, the name 'Yisrael', Israel, is an acronym for 'Yesh shsishim ribo otiyot latorah', there are 600,000 letters to the Torah. Therefore, Jєωs are the Torah, for each Jєω is a different letter in the Torah. When Moses counted the Jєωs he was learning Torah. This is why the verse changed its usual formulation to hint 'As God commanded Moses he counted the people,' like the Torah that God commanded Moses was the (experience of) counting of the nation.' (Kedushas Levi parshas Bamidbar s.v. Caasher) ."

Examples of the Kabbalistic religious use of numbers relating to 'vav', "the power that links together the souls of Israel", and especially of 'six hundred thousand' abound virtually everywhere one cares to look and it becomes obvious that 'six' is related in a very special manner to the Jєωιѕн concepts of 'kiddush hashem' and 'olah', of h0Ɩ0cαųst. 'Kiddush hashem' ,one will remember, means to the Jєω 'martyrdom' and the "sanctification of G-d's Name". One will also remember that the Jєωιѕн religion teaches that Jєωιѕн souls are themselves "pieces of the Divine". Therefore one begins to understand that in the Jєωιѕн religion the concept of 'martyrdom' and "sanctification of G-d's Name" is in fact a collective 'sanctification' of the Jєωιѕн people, of the six hundred thousand souls.

The concept of 'olah' is described by Rabbi Harav Yitzchak Ginsburgh's teaching, thus: "The Sages reply that the olah is first in the Torah recitation. However, in the order of sacrifice, the chatat precedes the olah. According to Kabbalah and Chassidut, the recitation reflects a drawing down of the Supernal Infinite Light from above to below -- as a person calls to his friend to come to him, or as a small child calls to his father to come and join him. In contrast, the actual sacrifice reflects an act of spiritual elevation from below to above -- the secret of the sacrifice ascends to the secret of the Infinite One."

Thus 'olah', 'h0Ɩ0cαųst', involves a religious mantra of recitation aimed at "a drawing down of the Supernatural Infinite light from above to below"

As a side note, one may ask, how can it be that only six hundred thousand Jєωιѕн souls exist when it is evident that many millions of Jєωs have existed in time?

The rabbinical explanation appears to be that the 600,000 souls are "root souls" and that all other Jєωιѕн souls are "offshoots", intrinsically connected and, perhaps, somehow, generated from them.

Some examples of the sacred connection that exists in the Jєωιѕн religion between religious recitation of the mantra of 'Six' ("the power that links together the souls of Israel"), the 600,000 Jєωιѕн souls, 'martyrdom - Divine sanctification' that draws down "Supernatural Infinite light from above to below" and h0Ɩ0cαųst, may be instructive. The religious objective of this 'divine' mantra is obviously meant to culminate in the eventual arrival of the long-awaited Jєωιѕн 'Messiah':

70 AD: Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus on the destruction of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the slaughter of Jєωs - "We are told that the number of the besieged, old and young, men and women, amounted to 600,000."

135 AD: Roman historian Cassius Dio is told and records that 600,000 Jєωs are slaughtered when Rome finally crushes the Bar Kokhba rebellion.

18th century: Ukrainian pogrom where "reliable accounts" record that 60,000 Jєωs were slaughtered by Gaidamak Cossacks according to the Jєωιѕн People's Relief Commitee Report of 1921, mentioned in The Slaughter of the Jєωs in the Ukraine in 1919, by Elias Heifetz.

1880: The New York Times editorial of 27th February states that: "The war, which has for some time raged in Germany between the natives and the Jєωs, seems rather to increase than diminish in intensity... The charge is made that of the 600,000 Israelites in the empire, hardly any engage in agricultural or mercantile pursuits; but that they control trade, rule the money markets, and are eating up the country with their avarice and usury."

1900: The New York Times of 11th June reports extracts from an address given by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, founder of the Federation of American Zionists, that "there are 6,000,000 [Six Million] living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favour of Zionism."

1916: The American Jєωιѕн Committee publishes a book entitled 'The Jєωs in the Eastern War Zone' in which it is claimed that eastern Europe is "a kind of prison with six million inmates, guarded by an army of corrupt and brutal jailers."

1917-1920: 60,000 Jєωs were murdered in pogroms in Poland and Russia according to the Jєωιѕн authors of The Jєω in the Modern World.

1918: The New York Times of October 18th carries a full page advertisement from the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jєωιѕн War Sufferers to collect one hundred million dollars to "Rebuild Jєωry" and states that "6,000,000 Jєωs Need Help" (Six Million).

1919: The American Hebrew of 31st October carries an article entitled 'The Crucifixion of the Jєωs Must Stop!' It claims that "Six million men and women are dying" in what it describes as a "threatened h0Ɩ0cαųst." "The war is over for everyone but the Jєω. The knife is still at his throat and an unreasoning and unreasonable century-old lust for Jєωιѕн blood opens his veins".

1936: Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, testifies in front of the Peel Commission, on November 25th, that: "It is no exaggeration to say that six million Jєωs are sentenced to be imprisoned in this part of the world, where they are unwanted, and for whom the countries are divided into those, where they are unwanted, and those, where they are not admitted."

1937: Chaim Weizmann reports to the Zionist Congress of London that "the hopes of Europe's six million Jєωs are centred on emmigration" according to the docuмent "h0Ɩ0cαųst Victims Accuse" published by anti-Zionist Jєωs.

1943: The New York Times of 2nd March reports, on page 4, Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, stating that "appalling is the fact that those who proclaim the Four Freedoms have so far done very little to even secure the freedom to live for 6,000,000 [Six Million] of their Jєωιѕн fellow men by readiness to rescue those who might still escape nαzι torture and butchery."

1946: The Jєωιѕн Black Book Committee, a venture between the Soviet Jєωιѕн Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and US Jєωιѕн organisations publishes The Black Book. It states that "Four million Jєωs - about two-thirds of the six million who perished in Europe at the hand of the nαzιs - were murdered at Oswiecim [Auschwitz] and its subsidiary camps."

1948: Rabbi Menachem Kasher, in the introduction to Kol HaTor in HaTekufah HaGedolah, reports a statistic relating to the year of the establishment of the Zionist State. He states that 1948 was the first year in centuries that there were 600,000 Jєωs living in 'Eretz Yisrael'.

1948: 600,000 Jєωs living in Arab countries were forced to flee from surrounding Arab lands to the newly established Israeli State claim the Children of Jєωιѕн h0Ɩ0cαųst Survivors Los Angeles organization and their political director Omri Ceren, in a press release dated 7th July, 2008.

1948: 600,000 h0Ɩ0cαųst survivors moved to Israel during the early years of the State, reports Judy Siegel-Itzkovich for the Jєωιѕн Weekly News of northern California, in a story entitled h0Ɩ0cαųst Survivors; Handle with Care, on 21st March, 2008.

1967: Rabbi Menachem Kasher, in the introduction to Kol HaTor in HaTekufah HaGedolah, reports a statistic relating to the year of the Six Day War. He states that 1967 was the first year in centuries that there were 600,000 Jєωιѕн males above the age of 20 living in 'Eretz Yisrael'.

1999: The Independent reveals in a story of 4th March entitled h0Ɩ0cαųst Trial Opens in Croatia that The Encyclopedia of the h0Ɩ0cαųst states that 600,000 were killed at the Jasenovac cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ but that Croatian historians think 35,000 people died.

2000: CBC News in Canada reports on 27th July that "a judge in the United States has approved the settlement offer between Swiss banks and 600,000 survivors of the h0Ɩ0cαųst."

2004: Hungary's first h0Ɩ0cαųst Museum opens in Budapest on the 60th anniversary of Hungarian Jєωs being sent to cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs. 60,000 names have been inscribed on the inside face of the wall surrounding the museum in order to remember 600,000 Hungarian Jєωιѕн victims.

2004: A memorial for the "600,000 Jєωs who were killed in gas chambers" at the Belzec "death camp" in Poland is solemnly opened on the 3rd June as a joint project of the American Jєωιѕн Committee and the Warsaw-based Council for the Protection of the Memory of Combat and Martyrdom.

2005: The Yad Vashem h0Ɩ0cαųst Museum in Jerusalem announces on October 10th the figure of 600,000 vistors in the six months since the opening of its new Museum Complex.

2006: A New America Media report of 14th November entitled Israel Encourages Citizens to Return to Homeland, written by Stacey Palevsky, states that "More than 600,000 Israeli's live elsewhere. And Israel wants them back... About 6,000 return each year." The report further reveals that the Israeli Minister of Immigration Absorption, Ze'ev Boim, was visiting as "part of the six-city campaign".

2007: Sidney Zabludoff tells the US House Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats, on 3rd October that "Currently there are approximately 600,000 h0Ɩ0cαųst survivors worldwide."

2008: A libel case heard at Jerusalem District Court, initiated by the Claims Conference, reveals that 600,000 h0Ɩ0cαųst survivors worldwide have received over $50 billion.

2008: German Culture Minister, Bernd Numann, and the chief of the German Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, Martin Salm, present to the Yad Vashem h0Ɩ0cαųst memorial site in Jerusalem a completed list of the 600,000 German Jєωιѕн population between 1933 and 1945.



Should any further consideration be necessary to determine the 'sacred' relationship between the Six Hundred Thousand Jєωιѕн Souls and The Six Million it is only necessary to remember that 'six' is the number of "truth" and represents "completion". It is "the power that links together the souls of Israel" of which there are 600,000. When multiplied by ten we arrive at Six Million.

The number 'ten' in the Jєωιѕн religion relates to the 'Sefirot' (enumerations) by which, Jєωs believe, God manifests Himself in the physical and metaphysical planes. 'Ten' is believed by Jєωs to be the number of "divine perfection". Therefore, the 600,000 souls of Israel, which are "pieces of the Divine", when multiplied by 'divine perfection' come to Six Million.

"The Hebrew word for 'ye shall return', (TaShuVU), seems to be spelled incorrectly. Grammatically it requires another (vav). It ought to read (TaShUVU). Why is it lacking the letter (vav) which stands for six? [TaShuVU] (without the vav) is a prediction to the Jєωιѕн people of ultimate return to their national homeland. [TaShuVU] in numbers adds up to 708: (tav)=400, (shin)=300, (vet)=2, (vav)=6. When we write the year, we ignore the millenia. In 1948 on the secular calendar, we witnessed the miracle of Jєωιѕн return to Israel. On the Hebrew calendar it was the year 5708. That was the year predicted by the incomplete word (TaShuVU), you shall return. We did return, lacking 6 - an all important 6 million of our people who perished during the h0Ɩ0cαųst. Yet the fulfillment of the prediction of return in precisely that year implied by the gematria of (TaShuVU) gives us firm hope that the words of the prophets for Final Redemption will come true as well."

- Rabbi Benjamin Blech, The Secret of Hebrew Words, pp 214-215.

(The same Rabbi Blech who, along with rabbis Barry Dov Schwartz and Jack Bemporad, "conferred" a "rabbinical blessing" upon Pope John Paul II, in the Apostolic Palace, on 18th January, 2005).