OT--Holocaust thing

Fri Feb 2 22:05:00 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 11557

Emily Owens wrote:

> The other gained great prominence with the fairly recent publication
> of of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners,"
> which argued that those who committed the crimes acted independently,
> based on racist views they learned from their overwhelmingly
> anti-Semitic surroundings.

As I'm forever pointing out to people, please to remember that in
addition to the Jews, the Slavs and Gypsies were also exterminated. Just
as many Poles, Gypsies, and homosexuals died as did Jews. It wasn't just
a Jewish thing. It was a non-Aryan thing.

--Amanda

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