My bad, robo, & my apologies. I lost track of the fact that Steve started the thread. Nevertheless, you did give a certain impression, I'm afraid. Perhaps to me only, & perhaps I, unconsciously, linked your post too much to Martin's egocentric trolling.

Rereading it, actually, I don't think we disagree. Auschwitz isn't only for the Jews, but I believe it does still emphasis the Jewish Holocaust, & too much so at the expense of other horrific events (i.e. in the minds of some, you may not suggest that anything else could ever be as bad...).

We remember the Nazi persecution, but there is no memorial for the Cambodians, for the Rwandans, for ... In the UK, we recently had a 3 minute silence, yes a three bloody minute silence silence for the tsunami victims. I do not wish death upon anyone, but can someone explain to me why the quarter of a million-odd victims of that natural disaster are worth 50% more than the millions who went, willingly & unwillingly, to their deaths in two world wars? We only give them 2 minutes, & there are those who seem to begrudge them that much!

Perhaps I've just lost track of my humanity somewhere along the line, but I can't see where the recent dead are worth more silence than the ones who willingly served & died what they believed in, that we might live. Or how the persecution under Hitler (of whoever) is more evil or noticeworthy than that under Stalin, Pol Pot, & so on...