The Germans didn’t kill six million Jews in the camps, they killed more like two to three million in the camps. In the Soviet Union, Poland, and the Baltics they killed at least three million Jews by shooting. Of course, they killed a lot more civilians who weren’t Jews than that. They also killed at least as many, probably more, Soviet Prisoners of war in camps than they did Jews in the camps. Around three million Soviet prisoners of war died in POW camps.
There is no doubt that Hitler wanted to rid Germany of its Jews. Before the war, they wanted to send them to Palestine and maybe, Madagascar. That’s historical fact. Once the war started, they couldn’t ship them anywhere and frankly no one wanted them. Roosevelt refused to accept an mere shipload of Jews and they were turned down at port after until the ship was forced to return Europe.
I don’t think there is any doubt Jews were worked to death and many killed outright. But, lots of things get lost in the shuffle. More were killed by shooting than any other means and there were relatively few German soldiers involved. What they did would have been impossible without the enthusiastic help of the local populations in Poland, Ukraine, the Baltics, and elsewhere. Only in a few countries was there any official resistance to getting rid of the Jews. Most of the ones in the camps came from Western countries where they would have balked at shooting them but were only too happy to load them onto trains, steal all their stuff, and ship them east.
About six million Polish citizens died during the war. About half of them were Poles and the rest were Jews. So of the alleged six million Jews who died, half were Polish and as many non-Jew Poles died as Jews. About two million Soviet Jews were killed. Of course, 19 million Soviet civilians who weren’t Jews were killed as well. And of course, almost 4 million German civilians died in the war.
From say October 1944 to the end of the war there were around one million deaths a month. I’m just not all that worked up by the Jews anymore. A bunch of them got killed. Welcome to the party. It was the biggest war in human history and most of them lived in the area where the bulk of the people who got killed lived. Were they targeted? Yeah, probably. That doesn’t make them any more or less dead than anyone else. Hitler was no more or less evil than any number of people like Ghengis Khan (who killed at least a tenth of the world’s population), Timurlaine, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many others simply because he chose to direct a big portion of his efforts towards Jews.
