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They killed so many people - that using a single bullet per person was deemed too costly and slow.  Think about that for a second - they industrialized genocide - it gives you a different perspective to think about it as a factory designed to produce dead bodies.
The horror is so hard to wrap your head around - the level of dehumanizing that occurred is frightening.
What percentage of that 23% actually knew what the holocaust was, and did not need it explaining or doing a search? >


More than half the respondents to the American organisation’s survey did not know six million Jews were murdered and 29% believe the death toll was below two million. >

I wonder how the survey was done. To assert something is exaggerated versus not knowing the true number are very different things. >

There's a big difference between "How many people do you think were killed during the Holocaust?" as an open ended question as opposed to "Do you think the number of holocaust deaths were exaggerated"?
There's a big difference between someone that is just ignorant and someone that believes in lies.
That being said, far too many people deny how big and horrible it was. >

Sadly I'm one of those people who doesn't know the number of people who died during the holocaust. I probably heard it at some point, but it's just not something I kept in memory. Now that I hear it's 6 million people, without any context, it sounds like a really big number. I can see why some people might think it's actually less if just randomly asked in a survey.