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Originally Posted by madko
I do not question the holocaust(It HAPPENED), I only ask you guys .. why are we only talking about 10% of the total casualties? Do you know there where around 60 millions casualties .. in witch 24 millions where Soviet Union loss? Why we don't talk about Poles? gypsies? Chinese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
@sperbonzo - yeah .. it's funny how nothing was out until the USA elections where over |
There are differences in the types of casualties. Some were military, and others were innocent civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some civilians died because of a complete lack of infrastructure as the war passed through their area - no government agencies, rampant disease, starvation, freezing to death, etc. Keep in mind that the war passed through various countries - such as France and Poland - and after military forces passed through there was no functioning government. The amount of loss here was staggering, and not only in human life.
But the difference is the Jews were intentionally targeted. It's mind blowing that a military power can choose and pick one race and attempt to dispose of them either by moving them, forcing them into harsh manual labor until they die, starving them to death, or just outright killing them. Imagine if the local police come to your house because of your nationality, arrest you and your entire family by force, and take you to be locked up in prison or worse to be killed. You did nothing wrong, but that's irrelevant - You have been sentenced to death just because of your nationality.
And it wasn't only Jews either. My grandmother's entire family was Polish, and her entire family was singled out and murdered and their house burned to the ground. They didn't have the luxury of going to a prison camp or even straight to the gas chambers; They were killed on the spot in their house - mother, father, brothers, and sisters. My grandmother was the only one who lived and by the end of the war she had moved to the US.