If we ignore the first reference to a holocaust of six million Jews we are left with what can perhaps best be considered as descending levels of details. At the highest and simplest level it means, "Something evil happened to innocent Jews in Europe before and during WW II."

      Below this level we have gassing and occasionally some shooting. At the next level we have horrible camp conditions. And below that the myriad presently mentioned and no longer mentioned details.

      Few people realize they are being asked to believe that nearly twice the population of New York City was exterminated, that the bodies were disposed of so expertly that they can not be found after fifty years and that nearly half of those people were Jewish.

      Few people realize they are being asked to believe in gas chambers that no one has found

      Few people realize they are being asked to believe that, in the middle of war with every resource precious to victory, the Nazis diverted enough resources to deal with twice the population of New York City, to kill more people than they killed in combat and to do this while there was still a chance of losing the war and being found out.

      Few people realize they are being asked to believe that all of it is to be explained by the motivation of blind, unthinking anti-semitism, even the half that were not Jewish.

      Few people realize they are being asked to believe that almost everyone went willingly to the camps, that what was happening was commonly known in the camps without it motivating revolt or even protest, or alternatively that it was a dark secret within the camps even though millions were paraded through the camps for destruction.

      Before the Holocaust became a capitalized word and took on religious significance each part of it had a separate existance. Each part of it could be presented and investigated individually. These days the parts are inseparable from the whole.

      A similar thing happened when Christianity was codified, a refusal to accept one part was the same as refusing to accept any of it. A rejection of one part was construed to be the rejection of all of it.

      The dis-similarity with Christianity is that there was no codification of the Holocaust before it was sanctified. Where in Christianity it is permissible to question the events in the lives of the saints, it is not permissible to investigate even the most absurd aspects of any holocaust story.

      Rather than an organized body of knowledge, the Holocaust is an accumulation of anecdotes without clear connection to each other save that they are told either about or by Jews. In hearing the stories one can forget that jews were less than half of the people to whom the same things were supposed to have happened. And one does certainly get the impression that the Jews and Israel are nothing but nations of victims.

      Thus when we get down to details the problem of defining the Holocaust becomes very difficult. Different writers on the Holocaust, all of them respectable to holocaust believers, tell different details to the point of being contradictory.

      Of course these contradictions would be considered acceptable if they were in a search for the truth. But as has been pointed out the Nuremberg Trials in fact determined what had happened to the best of its ability. The reason for the contradictions presented by these writers is that they are struggling to present a credible story based upon the incredible story that arose out of Nuremberg.