Something that will surprise most, shock many, and outrage a few is the fact that the holocaust had no bearing upon people's opinion during the war and essentially no bearing upon people's opinion after the war. Let me be more specific. The only reliable and credible source for holocaust information is the International Military Tribunal, commonly called Nuremberg. At Nuremberg there were four charges. Only one of them addressed what is now called the holocaust. (It did not have a name at the time.) That fourth charge, crimes against humanity, was only about 1/3 associated with what is now called the holocaust. And of that 1/3 it was less than 1/2 addressing the wrongs to Jews. At Nuremberg and for decades later, Jews were consider less than half of the victims. Nothing changed to revise the Nuremberg findings. Only public perception has changed. Just by the numbers 1/24th or only about four percent of Nuremberg was about what is now called the holocaust. And of that 4%, gas chambers were possibly half of that at most if all the non-gas methods (excluding shooting) are included. In other words and as has a man in France has been imprisoned for saying. In one volume on the war, the holocaust might get a page and the gas chambers a couple sentences. What he said was not an extremist position or a revisionist position. That is just about the attention it was given at Nuremberg. That opinion reflects reality. That is just a message and I am but a lowly messenger. Don't shoot! I'll come out with my hands up. Today the gas chambers are known better than D-Day. Few can come close to the number of American dead in that war but most everyone can recite "six million." At the time of the war and its immediate aftermath it saw exactly the opposite. Also at that time there was considerable public debate regarding the war crimes trials and the better arguments were against them.