McGrath:

David Irving is another league. It is not libel to call him Holocaust denier a British court has ruled (very rightly so in my eyes). The 'whittling down' Irving makes is a completely different proportion. Irving's opinion is that only one tenth of the Jews other historians think have been killed in the holocaust. And, in addition to that, that Hitler was not informed about this.

If the difference between 6 millions and 4.5 Millions and the difference between 6 Millions and 500,000-600,000 (Irving) for you both comes under the category 'whittling down' may I remind you your words from another thread: Holocaust deniers, for example,
      aren't doing history, they are doing propaganda.

I'd appreciate if you would leave the words 'holocaust deniers' out of these discussions here about figures, for these words (even if only used in comparison) grossly misstate, on the quantitative side, the amount of difference between the figures under discussion, and, on the qualitative side, the motives of those questioning figures posted here.

Wolfgang