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At least he didn't deny the Holocaust...
Or does he go like "it happened and it was a tragedy, but the people documenting it added an extra zero by accident..."?
He basically said, "they had to kill the Jews out of mercy because they couldn't afford to feed them." Like they were doing something to help the victims.
Most deniers try to wrap it up in a bow. It's often "there was a disease outbreak they were trying to control", or "the death toll isn't nearly as bad as the official story", or "it would have been dumb for the Nazis to spend so many resources when they were losing the war", or "Auschwitz had a swimming pool". They rarely come right out and say it didn't happen.
It all has the same goal: make the holocaust not seem so bad so they can implement the same policies.
I know, I was groomed by the far-right
I mean, starting the war in the first place was pretty stupid, as were a great many of their other decisions. It's not like Nazis are, were, or ever will be rational actors. So wasting resources on genocide in the middle of a war they were losing was very much in-character.