[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Where in that link (or elsewhere) is it denied, and who are ‘they’ that are denying it?

At the bottom of the page linked to in the OP, there was this link - https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/16690175

3rd in the list and no mention of numbers.

Denial isn't just about directly disputing something, but also omitting something because it doesn't suit an agenda.

If you went out on the streets and ask how many were killed, the biggest "vote" will be for 6 million. Little publicity is given to the 5 million.

With the internet it is easy to search for RARE mentions. If the biggest number of people refer to 6 million, then the biggest number of people are technically "deniers" because of the missing 5 million. Not their fault as the 5 million are so rarely mentioned and where they are the number is not mentioned.

Although Jews were the Nazis' main target, a wide range of other groups were persecuted during the Holocaust, including gay people, minority races, political opponents like communists and trade unionists, and Jehovah's Witnesses. A quarter of a million mentally ill and disabled people and half a million Roma (also known as gypsies) were killed.

Slavs missing from that list.

The plan was partially realized during the war, resulting directly and indirectly in the death of 9.4 to 11.4 million ethnic Slavs by starvation, disease, execution or extermination through labor,