Sorry, no that's just weaseling out of something by playing the definition game.
Let me make it easy for you: between 11 and 17 million people, amongst them 6 million Jews got murdered for simply being who they were.
If you're Jewish you might want to use the word to mean 'just the six million jews', so there is a little leeway in the definition, but not enough to use that as a way to pretend that it didn't happen.
It did, and it's horrible.
> As I said, I accept that millions died and humans are evil.
There is a large difference between 'dying' and being brutally and systematically exterminated, the word is 'genocide'.
That said, I think everybody should be free to deny it as much as they please instead of having this criminalized, after all it's just an outward display of utter stupidity, and it helps to be able to identify the stupid people so we can keep them out of positions of power.
I also think that Israels actions of late are not in its own long term interest, but that's a wholly different kettle of fish and not really pertinent to the discussion.
> Then I decided to not research further because the subject is too dangerous.
This makes absolutely no sense to me, what was dangerous about the research ?
Just see what happens here with the subject. If you start a discussion about it, you are quickly being pushed into the revisionist camp. In Germany that means your career is dead and you are forever an outcast of society.
I don't know if actual historians (like with a degree) are able to discuss the subject. But normal people can't.
Germany is still coming to terms with their part in all this and that is why they are over reacting, another big factor is that there is a definite surge in the numbers of neo-nazis.
The funniest thing is that some of the extremist rightwing people (notably Wilders) are best friends with Israel, I never really understood that one.
The revisionist bit comes from taking up the position that you think that because it happened before your time must mean that you have to be unsure about it because of a so-called lack of evidence.
The evidence is there for everybody who wants it to see it, no 'belief' is required.
Clever people in the revisionist camp abuse the basic insecurity people have about things that happened before they were born to push their own agenda forward, and with some success. Which is why you get the reactions you are seeing.
My parents and grandparents lived through the war in Europe, one of my grandfathers was sent to a work camp in Germany but fortunately survived, lots of people they knew were less fortunate. I know personally plenty of people where the whole family tree is balanced on a single survivor that made it - miraculously - out of one of the 'death camps'. To me it's all pretty real and very close to home.
I think you just did push me into the revisionist camp. I did not make a claim, except that there are people who deny the Holocaust. I also say that I personally can not verify it, but that is not making a claim.
Merely taking up the discussions means that you will mention arguments of the revisionists, which will end up making you look like a revisionist. Having a question about the HC makes you a non-believer.
I did not see you ask any questions, only state your doubt.
> I also say that I personally can not verify it,
Yes, you can. Find some camp survivors and have a chat with them, then wonder how we will remember when the last ones have died.
I only mentioned the HC because at times I stumbled upon such discussions. The discussions are of course all in the details, which I suspect is one of the signs for revisionism. At times I tried to validate or reject some of the claims and as I said, I found more question marks than answers. Then I decided to not research further because the subject is too dangerous. As I said, I accept that millions died and humans are evil.