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Kal
06-05-2004, 07:30 AM
Cecil's reply in the column "Did the Nazis make lampshades out of human skin?" (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040604.html) includes the following:
... methodically exterminating five to six million people, performing bizarre experiments on them, and plundering their bodies ...

As the World's Smartest Human Being, I'm sure that Cecil is aware that the figure of 5 - 6 million refers to the Nazi's Jewish victims and ignores the millions of other people who the Nazis methodically exterminated, performed bizarre experiments on and whose bodies they plundered.