[HPforGrownups] Re: OT--Holocaust thing

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 11570

foxmoth at qnet.com wrote:

> --- 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.

::takes a deep breath and counts to ten::

Pippin, I'm sure that you didn't mean it to come across as such, but that
last message really made me angry in that it seemed to insinuate that the
deaths of those who were not specifically singled out for genocide by Hitler
on his insane Aryan crusade were "less important" than those not
specifically targetted.

Remember, there were MORE "non-genocide" victims than those killed in the
name of the Aryan "race". Three to four times as many, in fact. And what
does the international community do to the perpetrators of THOSE crimes?
Nurnburg? Nope. Trying them well into their eighth decade? Naw. Zip. Zilch.
Nada.

Forgive the OTness of this post. I've been studying the post-WWII fallout
last term and have some fairly strong opinions. If another of the Moderator
team (who, unlike me, would be impartial here) wants to step in and call a
halt to this thread, feel free.

--John, student of International Relations

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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