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Thread #95037   Message #1845539
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
28-Sep-06 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Growing up in post-holocaust Germany
Subject: RE: BS: Growing up in post-holocaust Germany
I don't think that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust--I think that six million human beings were murdered

More than six million - remember as well as the Jews the Nazis went after other people identified as enemies or as surplus to requirements. Gypsies, Slavs, non-Aryans, Communists, Liberals, disabled people, homosexuals... Most of the human race actually, when you got down to it.

And it happened in what arguably was the most civilised country in the world. That's what's frightening, because the seeds are always here in our civilised western world for the same kind of evil to come again, in some different form.