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Originally Posted by Rochard
Yes, but you don't understand the difference. Nazi Germany targeted Jews because they were Jewish. Japan targeted everyone who was their enemy. Germany was trying to end an entire race of people.
Although... I never noticed the number of civilian deaths in China was so freaking high...
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You're proclaiming a difference without a distinction as far as I am concerned. Firstly Jewish people aren't exactly a homogenous race unto themselves or a race at all depending on how you want to classify the term. And Germany's genocidal & extermination campaigns focused on a wide variety of peoples based on criteria they considered undesirable in addition to Jewish religion or ethnicity, including Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, blacks, Freemasons, political opponents and others. Racial bias was also very much a part of Japanese treatment of the Chinese specifically due to the long history as neighbors in Asia.