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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
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. |
You've confused motivation and result. Yes the Jews were the only ones targeted in such a manner, but that doesn't mean the suffering level automatically goes up. Any group of people who have faced genocide has suffered greatly, it's not quantifiable and ranking suffering is just plain ridiculous.