Dr. Paul Nathan's View of Russian Massacre

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Hello everybody!

I stumbled upon this alleged New York Times article from 1906 called "Dr. Paul Nathan's View of Russian Massacre" which has references to "6 Million", "solution", and "systematic and murderous extermination".

http://socioecohistory.files.wordpr...ion-jews-russia-1906_nytimes.gif?w=675&h=1091

What is the consensus regarding this article?

First off, is it real or fake?
Second, if it was real, was there actually a plan for systematically exterminating Jews in 1906?

Obviously, many deniers will exploit this sort of thing as a way of saying that 6 million Jews and suffering had been claimed years before World War II even started.

As a disclaimer, I do not consider myself to be a holocaust denier, and I do not consider myself by any means to be an expert on the holocaust, so I can't really make many arguments either way, but I think curiosity would stir in any random person presented with this article, so I'm just throwing this on the table to hear what people more knowledgeable than myself have to say.
 
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It's a real article (I did a back check on the NYT archive site). But if you look further , you can find a lot of different articles stating different numbers of the Jewish population in Russia.

It wouldn't surprise me to discover that the Nazi's stole some of their wording from Nathan himself. They read the paper too .

Frankly, i don't see how the Pogroms (which killed 2,000 Jews between 1903-1906) have any bearing on the validity of the Holocaust. They clearly both occurred. If someone tried to claim that the wording of an article 35 years prior negates the Jupiter sized mountain of evidence that 6 million+ Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. I would call such an argument weak sauce.
 
phantasmagoria7 said:
Hello everybody!

I stumbled upon this alleged New York Times article from 1906 called "Dr. Paul Nathan's View of Russian Massacre" which has references to "6 Million", "solution", and "systematic and murderous extermination".

http://socioecohistory.files.wordpr...ion-jews-russia-1906_nytimes.gif?w=675&h=1091

What is the consensus regarding this article?

First off, is it real or fake?
Second, if it was real, was there actually a plan for systematically exterminating Jews in 1906?

Obviously, many deniers will exploit this sort of thing as a way of saying that 6 million Jews and suffering had been claimed years before World War II even started.

As a disclaimer, I do not consider myself to be a holocaust denier, and I do not consider myself by any means to be an expert on the holocaust, so I can't really make many arguments either way, but I think curiosity would stir in any random person presented with this article, so I'm just throwing this on the table to hear what people more knowledgeable than myself have to say.
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The article is legit, and yes the early 1900's were a time of pogroms in Russia -- which evidence suggests were, if not organized by government elements, were at least aided by them turning a blind eye. 6,000,000 just happened to be the Jewish population at the time
 
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