I'm neutral as I haven't studied it however what's the most compelling evidence it did happen with the numbers of 5-6million, a few WW2 photos of very starved looking people?
You don't need to write a book either. Think bulletpoints.
For the most part, the typical holocaust victim was not starved to death.
It was the forced laborers/Concentration camp inmates who suffered that fate (Note Concentration camp =/= Death camp. They sometimes operated together, but they served different functions and operated in very different ways. Most death camp victims were dead and ashes within hours of arrival, they didn't have time to starve)
Also, it needs to be remembered that by the end of WW2 all of Germany was starving. Of course the inmates of labor camps were going to be on the bottom of the list for food rations Many of those starving people at the end of the war weren't starving as a result of specific policy. They were staving simply because there was no food.
As an aside, I have always felt that the analysis of the victims of the V2 program always misses a very big point.
As I recall, V2's killed around 6000 in attacks. around 10,000 died in the slave factories that built them.
But on a wider scale. Both these will be
dwarfed by the fact that the alcohol fuel for each rocket launch required some 30 tons of potatoes to manufacture.
The entire V2 development program must have diverted some 250,000 tons of potatoes from food in to industrial alcohol.
I wonder how many people all across Germany and even further afield starved to death as a result of this?
