Could you explain this? I'm not trying to be snarky, just genuinely curious. @AuschwitzMuseum tweets often use the word.
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It's the exonerative tense, and used by itself in individual cases is pretty anodyne. Saying 6 million "perished" is typically in a larger context of also saying that the deaths were a natural consequence of war, totally unintentional, and exaggerated anyway.
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Actually there was a recent article on that very subject and it appeared on the antisemitic publication Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/holocaust-facts-6-million-where-is-the-figure-from-1.5319546 …
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