The First Time They Said Six Million

By Dr. Ray Taylor

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Before the Holocaust. Before the gas chambers. Before Auschwitz. Before Nuremberg. There was already a number. That number was six million.

But it was not 1945. It was 1915. It was 1919. It was the interwar period.

The claim was that six million Jews were suffering, dying, or facing extinction in Eastern Europe. The press ran with it. Rabbis preached it. Zionist leaders echoed it. And American newspapers published it.

But there was no Holocaust in 1915. There was no Adolf Hitler. There were no camps. No crematoria. No Final Solution.

So what was this about? Why did they say it?

Because six million was never just a statistic. It was a political tool. A psychological weapon. A moral bludgeon. It was never about counting the dead. It was about moving the living.

The Articles That Prove It

This is not theory. This is documented history.

New York Times, June 6, 1915

“Six million Jews are being denied the right to exist as a race.”

American Hebrew, October 31, 1919

“Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life.”

New York Times, May 7, 1920

Another appeal for the six million who were allegedly starving or vanishing in Europe.

These were not isolated headlines. There were dozens. Some referenced starvation. Others referenced pogroms. All used the same phrase. Six million.

Why?

Because the number worked.

Symbolism and Propaganda

Six million was not pulled from census records. It was not confirmed by forensic investigators. It was not supported by Red Cross documentation.

It was a round number. A frightening number. A clean number for fundraising campaigns and emotional manipulation. It was repeated so often that it became sacred.

And once something becomes sacred, it becomes untouchable.

The suffering of Jews in Eastern Europe was real. There were pogroms. There was displacement. There was hunger. But to claim that six million Jews were dying as early as 1915 was a stretch. And it was done deliberately.

Because people respond to big numbers. Because people respond to threat. Because people respond to panic. And because people open their wallets when they believe an entire race is vanishing.

It worked then. It worked again later.

Zionism’s Need for Numbers

In the early twentieth century, Zionism was still controversial. Most Jews in Europe did not want to move to Palestine. They wanted to stay in Europe or emigrate to the United States.

Zionist leaders knew they had to shift public opinion. They had to create a sense of existential crisis. They had to present Palestine not as a dream but as a necessity.

Enter six million.

If six million Jews were in danger, then Jews needed a homeland now. If six million were dying, then Jews could no longer assimilate. If six million were vanishing, then Palestine was not optional. It was survival.

That was the pitch. And it worked.

The Blueprint for the Holocaust Narrative

This does not mean the Holocaust was invented. It means that the propaganda infrastructure to support it was already in place. It means that when the actual extermination campaigns began in the 1940s, the public was already primed. The emotional groundwork was already laid. The number had already been burned into the cultural psyche.

Six million. Over and over. Before the war. During the war. After the war.

And now, to question it is heresy.

Truth Is Not Hate

You are not allowed to ask why the same number was used in 1915 as in 1945. You are not allowed to ask why the death toll at Auschwitz was revised downward but the six million figure remained untouched. You are not allowed to ask why numbers from Zionist appeals before the Holocaust mirror numbers from Holocaust museums today.

Because truth has been replaced by dogma.

But truth does not fear questions. And truth does not need protection from honest minds.

Conclusion

They said six million Jews were dying in World War I. That was not a misprint. That was not coincidence. That was political design.

They said it again in the 1930s. They said it during World War II. And they said it after.

The number has become untouchable. But the origins are not. The record is there. The newspaper articles are there. The Zionist appeals are there.

The only thing missing is the courage to ask the question.

Why did they say it?

And why are we not allowed to say it again?

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