Despite overwhelming evidence and an admission and apology from
Germany decades ago, revisionists continue to claim that nearly
6 million Jews were not killed by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for one, has called the
Holocaust a "myth" and suggested that Germany and other European
countries, rather than Palestine, provide land for a Jewish
state. Unlike Ahmadinejad, most revisionists do not deny that
Jews were interned in prison camps during World War II; rather,
they argue that the number of deaths was greatly exaggerated.
Gas chambers are a particular sticking point: Holocaust deniers
say they were purely a rumor or, if they indeed existed, were
not powerful enough to kill though evidence and history indicate
otherwise. And the photographs of emaciated and dying Jews?
Attorney Edgar J. Steele, a revisionist, says, "All those
pictures of skinny people and bodies stacked like cordwood were
actually of Czechs and Poles and Germans [who] died of typhus,
which was rampant in t