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Originally Posted by 4X4
The thing that people get tired of is when people take things so personally and act like their ethnicity is the only one that has ever suffered. The direction of this thread is this: other races suffered just as bad, if not more, than Jews. So why is it that as far as most people know, the Jews were the only ones slaughtered and murdered during WWII?
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See, that's just plain wrong -that's all. Jews were the only people targeted for extermination. Many others suffered terribly (including my own Russians), but the Jews were the only ones designated for wholesale extermination by Hitler. You might try reading Richard Evans' Third Reich trilogy if you want something fairly recent - of course it's very long. BTW I'm not arguing this point because I'm emotionally invested either way - I just want to make sure people have their facts straight. I love history - I was going to be a history professor until I decided I needed a real career.
WW2 and events leading up to it was/is my area of expertise.