It is always an interpretation of the meaning of facts. This may be seen in the current hysteria over the reopening of the McCarthy investigations. To the liberal court historians the actual fact of Soviet penetration of the U.S. Government is less important than the implied charge that liberals were and are the accessories to Communism. So it is as well with Holocaust Revisionism. The actual number of Jewish deaths from World War Two and the cause of death is less the issue than the fiction that Jews were the innocent target of a madman.
Revisionism strikes directly at the Jewish mindset.
It takes the ultimate Jewish horror story and reduces it to an ordinary wartime misfortune. More than that it implicitly accuses Jews of having perpetrated a massive swindle upon the world. Thus, it states by clear implication that Jews do in fact posses the power their opponents claim. No one should wonder that Revisionism makes Jews very, very nervous. Revisionists are regularly rebuked for allegedly wishing to rehabilitate Hitler.