A few things about this jump out to me a little bit: One, is it possible that the popular understanding of the word “myth” has changed? I tend to think of it a

A few things about this jump out to me a little bit: One, is it possible that the popular understanding of the word “myth” has changed? I tend to think of it as being applied exclusively to fictitious stories, but that’s not the only definition. Any story that’s associated with a person or group could be considered a “myth”, regardless of its truth. The other big thing is that my generation (I’m ~40) was taught about the Holocaust as being either exclusively against the Jews, or at least mostly against the Jews. I have zero doubts that the ~6m Jewish people who were killed were in fact killed - but I also know that ~3m Soviet POWs were killed as well, and that they had similar extermination programs against homosexuals, dissenting intellectuals, and others for all kinds of political reasons. Those people seem to be rarely mentioned.