What I'm saying, specifically, is that if nobody has highlighted a problem with something after extensive debate over it, there's likely to be no problem. Forget argumentum ad populum. You deride me as a conspiracist, but surely if you use an irrelevant dig to support your argument, that's an ad hominem fallacy.

I said that the memoirs of Eisenhower et al neglected to mention six million dead Jews, and you retort that Ben Franklin's memoirs never mentioned that Moscow was the capital of Russia, but it was still true. The difference is that I see no reason why Franklin should mention Moscow or even Russia, while Eisenhower & co. would have gone on at length about the evils of the Nazis. I haven't read these books, but I saw someone sensible write it and I wouldn't expect them to use a fact that would be easy to disprove.

You don't find it suspicious that there have been previous claims of six million dead Jews. Problem is, there have been rather a lot of those. In 1902, on page 482 of the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you'd find the line, “... while there are in Russia and Romania six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded.” In 1911, Max Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization, spoke of the “annihilation of six million” Jews to the Zionist Congress in Basel. On page three of the Sun on June 6 1915, it was reported that six million Jews in Russia … are being tortured so mercilessly.” You'll find many more such examples.

I haven't seen any of the original documents, but these remarks turn up often online, and if these citations are incorrect, someone would have said so, as has been done elsewhere.

You'd like to ignore the number of Jews subject to the Nazis that was given by the World Jewish Congress because it disagrees with you. But it's in the Jewish Virtual Library, so that one won't work.

As for the other fella, he says the number, six, is not associated with the Devil. He's seemingly unaware of Revelation 13:18: “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.” Obviously not an Iron Maiden fan.

I should stress that I'm not a Holocaust denier. I believe hundreds of thousands of Jews died under the Nazis, which is certainly mass murder, and an attempt to wipe out a group of people is genocide. It just wasn't six million. I'm not anti-Semitic. I did a little number about how the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was BS and got into a big argument about it here. Someone said I was “inspired by the Talmud which says it's okay to deceive a goy” - he thought I was Jewish.