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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The only thing to deny about the Holocaust is that it was only a German thing. Practically every country in Europe was at the very least, complacent if not actively facilitating it at the early stages. Even Canada turned away Jewish refugees and sent them to their deaths. Other countries in Europe (including "allies" were deporting and turning away Jews and other would-be victims (Slavs, socialists, Roma, etc...)) throughout WW2.
There is a whole level of Holocaust denial bigger than these crackpots that deny German guilt.
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Thanked,
The biggest problem with the way people are taught and look at history right now is the simplicity. Thinking that persecution and genocide is something exclusive to Jews / Germans in the 40's, or that Slavery is something exclusive to Blacks / Americans in the 1800's, or that colonialism is something exclusive the that Spanish/British of the 1600's.
We all have to own up to the fact that we have a long storied history of doing really bad things as a race.