Debunking Holocaust Denial - Denier Argument #2: "Baking 6 million Cookies"

A Holocaust denier by the name of Nicholas Fuentes was holding some sort of stream, when one of his fans denied the Holocaust by trying to use a mathematical argument.

He stated:

"If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies and cookie monster has 15 ovens working 24 hours a day every day for 5 years, how long does it take cookie monster to make 6 million batches of cookies?"

Obviously, the fan is referring to the Holocaust. By cookies, he means Jews, by cookie monster, he means Nazis, by ovens, he means concentration camps.

Now, this is one of the worst attempts at presenting an argument which "disproves" the Holocaust. This argument ignores basic facts about the Holocaust which can be found in a literal google search.

First of all, there were far more than 15 ovens. I'm not going to list every single concentration camp, extermination camp, and slave labor camp, but here is a map of the camp locations.

As you can see, there are far, far more than 15 "ovens". Not only that, but this argument straight up ignores the shootings and massacres by the Einsatzgruppen, SS, Wehrmacht, and Order Police, the starvation of Jews in ghettos, the deportation of Jews, and other methods used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Deniers lied once again. A common misconception about the Holocaust is that 6 million Jews were killed solely in camps alone, but this is not the case, as concentration camps and extermination camps were not the only ways the Nazis persecuted Jews. 

But, the most ridiculous and outright hilarious part of this argument, is that his own math leads to more than 6 million Jews killed.

1 batch of cookies (12 cookies) x 15 ovens = 180 

180 cookies baked per hour x 24 hours in a day = 4320

4320 cookies baked per day x 365 days in a year = 1,576,800

1576800 cookies baked per year x 5 years = 7,488,000 

So the denier, in his attempt to lie about the Holocaust and try to use false methods to "debunk" it, ended up using a formula which literally goes against his own point, thus making himself look like a clown. Did you really expect a person who unironically believes that the Holocaust never happened to be smart?

The truth is, you cannot prove how many people died in the Holocaust, or any genocide for that matter, using the denier's statistic. The Nazis did not have a specific pace in which they killed the Jews. Historians don't use this false formula to calculate Holocaust deaths, they use official documents, memoirs, population loss, letters, and plenty of other primary sources to calculate the amount of people who died in the Holocaust.

SOURCES:

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/image/main-nazi-camps-and-killing-sites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel#The_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungspolizei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht#Reprisals_and_the_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_ghettos

Lerman, Anthony (1989), The Jewish Communities of the World, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 100–101

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_and_documentation_for_the_Holocaust