France's president Charles de Gaulle was perhaps at little shocked when he read on these then two-year-old plaques that four million people had been killed at Auschwitz, as a French report submitted to the big Nuremberg trial said it was seven million.
Winston Smith Ministry of Truth Archive
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No worries, it is simply a magic number that can appear differently depending on the size of ones propaganda needs, like an optical illusion - or the stock market prices.
ReplySometimes it looks like 4 million, other times like 1 million, or 5 million or perhaps 7 million with a French accent, or even occasionally can jump as high as 9 million or more if the the demand for bullshit is high enough.
But regardless of how this magic number bounces around the minimum of 6 million total for the Holocaust remains steady, at threat of legal prosecution.
Peace
Here is an advisable blog about biographies of politicians, but in german language only.
Replyhttp://diki.heliohost.org/gaulle.htm
In the author´s conclusion de Gaulle was an evil criminal.