by jheitwler » Mon May 11, 2009 9:30 pm
Go to the New York Times archives. They have (I think) every issue of the NYT going back to 1851. You can search the archive for free and download many of the articles for free as well. If you're a print subscriber you have access to all the articles in the archive for no additional cost.
Search for "six million Jews" "6,000,000 Jews" "six million Jewish", etc. You'll find some interesting results especially if you restrict the search to the years prior to 1939.
The earliest reference I found to six million Jews in Europe being in grave peril while the world slumbers is from 1916. I'd be interested to see if there are any even earlier that I haven't stumbled across yet.
"First of all there is the fact that if we assume the Holocaust to have happened more or less as told, all the evidence becomes intelligible, while if we assume it was a hoax, most of the evidence does not make any sense." - Robert Jan Van Pelt