OT--Holocaust thing

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11574

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> foxmoth at q... 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.

	See my previous post...no human soul is less important than 
another...or less deserving of justice. You are right, it bears 
repeating. I will gladly shout it from the rooftops. I tried to word my 
post so as not to insinuate otherwise. 
  The word Holocaust refers properly to a specific historic catastrophe 
which was only a part of the general destructiveness of the Hitler 
regime. Whether it 'should' mean that...another question entirely and 
off topic for this list, although I would be glad to hear your views. 
Email me..
Pippin