No guilt by comparison intended - just another way of making the point that Karl Marx made there - "But I do find it interesting that people argue casualty figures, as if 337,000 odd here, as opposed to 500,000 there, is not so bad. What is the point? Does that make war more palatable, that there were only 337,000 odd dead, wounded, missing, as opposed to half a million . . . ? "

Some of the people who try to play down the Holocaust are subtle enough not to try to deny that there were deaths, but rely instead on trying to whittle down the figures. And yes, there is a valid historical place for trying to get accurate figures, rather than treating a guesstimate as untoucheable, and that is somethimg very different.

The point is, the detailed figures in themselves are a secondary thing, and don't alter the horror of what happned. And that goes for catastrophes like Verdun as well.