Regardless of what occurred in WW2 (and I believe Sobrabor, Treblinka and Belzec did kill 1.5-2 million people, probably mainly Jews AND that Auschwitz was a labor camp, not a death camp) , "The Holocaust" has been an ongoing, evolving production. From the "children sewn together" "human soap" and "lampshades from human skin" presented at the camps to the German people after liberation, to the BS testimony at Nuremburg, to the continuing and evolving legend Hollywood has built around it, "The Holocaust" -to paraphrase David Irving -is a brand like Tylenol or kleenex.

As stated above, people died in camps, on purpose. However the outcry around it is such tha discussion about it is the ultimate taboo. My belief is that there is/was a tremendous amount of grift surrounding it- from reparations to victims, to donations, to the bully pulpit.

It is also possible that much of the furor (pun intended) around Auschwitz in particular is an intel agency effort to conceal what really happened at the Buna Plant there- large scale enrichment of Uranium for the (six!) separate German Nuclear programs. See Carter Heydrich's excellent book (he only wrote one!) for further info on this.

Whatever it is, the Holocaust has been an ultimate "third rail" in out society for far too long. Why can't we have frank discussions about the facts? As anons know- because someone is hiding something.