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Old 09-01-2009, 08:43 PM   #187
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
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.
Suffering is the eye of the beholder... Did Soviet POWs who were starved suffer more or less than the Jews who were gassed? I don't know. My point is not to compare suffering, but merely to point out that the unique thing is the how it was oranized and carried out as state policy.
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