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I was taught in high school that it was 6 million Jews. Standard American public high school. Teacher was left-wing. We read Diary of Anne Frank, Night by Elie
by pyuser583 2y ago
I was taught in high school that it was 6 million Jews.
Standard American public high school. Teacher was left-wing. We read Diary of Anne Frank, Night by Elie Weisel, Number the Stars, etc.
No holocaust denial going on.
Yes, the Soviets were excluded. So were the Prussians, who were the victims of both Nazi and Soviet genocides.
Nobody calls this holocaust denial.
- llm_trw 2y ago>Yes, the Soviets were excluded. >>The double think is so strong that you can have two people from the same village, in the same camp, dead on the same day and have one be a victim of the holocaust, and the other not just because one was a Jew and the other a Communist. Or to put it another way. If Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were both captured by time traveling Nazis and sent to Treblinka Marx would count towards the holocaust and Engels would not in the Wests version of holocaust denial.
- hackerlight 2y agoAre you just now learning that words have definitions? Do you know what a definition is? The Holocaust is defined, a priori, as the Nazi genocide of Jews, whether in gas chambers or in killing fields. It's a word with a definition. The Nazi killing of communists for being communist is a politicide, not a genocide. The Nazi killing of gypsies is also genocide, similar to the Holocaust, but it definitionally isn't the Holocaust.
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