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1st comment on the article > there are among even the most terrifying of targeted massacres such as during the regime of pol pot or the misery of rwanda nothin
by smnscu 10y ago
1st comment on the article
> there are among even the most terrifying of targeted massacres such as during the regime of pol pot or the misery of rwanda nothing comparable to the holocaust. Jewish children were being hanged from windows in the neighborhoods of germans whose neighbors knew the families. the german people eagerly and happily enjoyed herr hitler and his band of sick psychopaths and perverts and lest we forget to mention it, drug addicts. those who stood against these crimes were murdered along with the Jews. beyond everything, it was the automation and the mechanization of killing innocent Jewish german citizens and gassing and hanging 1.5 million little Jewish children with great purposefulness that gives the german inquisition its special ignoble bloodstamp on history. we have the evidence of the smiling laughing hitler saluting audiences crammed together because there were hardly spaces large enough to hold them all. don't use the word comparable. just don't.
- robotresearcher 10y ago> don't use the word comparable. The only occurrence of the string 'compar' in the article: "Mr. Fritzsche [the author of the book described] does not labor this point by comparing the situation with those that came after..."
- dunkelsten 10y agoWhy do jews always think they're such special flowers? There's virtually no difference in the brutality of atrocities compared to Darfur, Armenia or what the IS is doing. The only difference was sheer magnitude and ruthless execution - with uncompromising German efficiency.
- chillingeffect 10y agoSympathy for their genocide over other genocides has numerous causes. Mainly, it's because of American relation to it. We saved them, so we like hearing about it. It also bolsters Christian bias in American politics. Still, it was very bad. We would probably have more perspective as a human phenomenon rather than a European one on it if additional genocides were explicated.
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