OT--Holocaust thing

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No: HPFGUIDX 11561

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Don't forget the 20 million Russian civilians who were killed on the Eastern
> Front by the advancing Armies of the Third Reich. Oh, and the tens of
> thousands of Southeast Asian people massacred by the Japanese.
> 
> --John
	They should never be forgotten, but they were not Holocaust 
victims.
	The term Holocaust refers to those destroyed in the Endlosung, the  
"Final Solution', not Axis victims in general.
Pippin