In the doctoral thesis , Abbas describes the number of Jews murdered in the Nazi Holocaust as agreed upon by mainstream historians , six millions , as a " fantastic lie " . In the book , he wrote : In the book , he wrote : Abbas quotes historian Raul Hilberg to support his allegations that fewer than one million Jews were killed . However , Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies denied the assertion that " The historian and author , Raoul Hilberg , thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000 " , and said this is " utterly false " . He wrote that " Professor Hilberg , a distinguished historian and author of the classic study '' The Destruction of the European Jews '' , has never said or written any such thing . " Abbas raised doubts regarding the existence of the gas chambers , quoting Robert Faurisson , on the nonexistence of gas chambers
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