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On the contrary, they knew exactly what the concentration camps were. It's is us today that have no idea. Ask anyone in the west how many people died in the hol
by thr_qst 3y ago
On the contrary, they knew exactly what the concentration camps were. It's is us today that have no idea. Ask anyone in the west how many people died in the holocaust and they will tell you 6 million. Half the number. We don't count the other half and celebrate the people who killed Russians and Poles: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/25/lapr-s25.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/25/lapr-s25.html
- gregw2 3y agoMy grandfather, who devoted his life to nonprofit work, liberated concentrations camps firsthand as a US Army officer, and observed in his later years how common it was for people to remember the six million Jews who died but forget the six million Poles. (The crime of antisemitic genocide is very very great, but if you doubt the Polish suffering, recall that the cry for “Leibensraum” was not purely or even primarily about the Jews, but it was undertaken with great military force, right?) I have had a hard time independently verifying the Polish numbers to even share them with others so I agree the west ignorance on this runs deep.