“There was [sic] no six million Jews living in Europe at that time”: American rapper Lord Jamar denies scale of Holocaust

An American rapper has produced a podcast denying the scale of the Holocaust.

Lord Jamar, 52 (real name Lorenzo Dechalus), former member of hip-hop band Brand Nubian, is now a record producer and podcaster.

In a podcast with Muslim Scientologist Rizza Islam, Lord Jamar claimed that a far smaller number of Jews died in the Nazi genocide, saying that the numbers have been exaggerated because “there was [sic] no six million Jews living in Europe at that time.”

Rizza Islam appeared to agree, asserting that he “did the research.” If he had, he would have seen census records confirming that there were more than 9.5 million Jews in Europe before WWII, more than six million of whom were murdered in the Holocaust.

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