i've walked past the place maybe hundreds of times. never bothered to go in either. i found the oude kerk and the little shop stalls out the front much more interesting, but mainly it was the path between central and western amsterdam.

oh yeah, first place i stayed in amsterdam was just down the road, that christian hostel place... i forget the name of it now. damn. volunteered to work there so i could try and land a job after i got out of prison. nice people. the area was something of a jew quarter back in WW2 days. i also stayed at a homeless shelter in utrecht that has a plaque on the front (now is a leger des heils - salvation army) shelter, that talks about how the building was a part of the underground railroad.

i should also mention that my opa (i'm australian but my grandfather was dutch, grew up in eastern netherlands) with his big brother were smuggling pork in suitcases to enclaves of jews hiding out from the germans. he told me the story of the germans asking them questions while he was aware that there was some blood leaking out of the lid of the suitcase beside him.

there's a lot of fake stories about all of that shit, and a lot of true stories about it. in my experience the more you have heard of it, the faker it probably is. i am not that skeptical about 6 million but keep in mind that under Hitler there was a 20 million death toll, i think Stalin pushed 60 million and Mao pulled off a 100 mil.

so, first of all, the jews were not a majority victim group. simple fact.

secondly, in germany, it was more gypsies (ie mostly west asians, tartars, and such) africans and north africans, and one of the things that they never bother to mention is that a lot of them were christians, scattered across the geographical origins probably a majority of the victims of the holocaust were actually christians. hitler is even on record saying that the thought it was lame that they were pretending to be christian when they were actually as pagan as they get, using all those norse runes and shit...