re: A I refuses to say how many Jews were killed by the Nazis but knows all about the NABKA!!

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Disease and malnutrition were likely big killers, and should get talked about more.

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Frankly, these were more miserable deaths and still largely intentional acts by the Nazi regime.

The mistake folks make is to think of the entire apparatus as a killing machine. Yes, the Nazis ideal number of Jews was 0, but they were also practical. The overall scheme (and can largely be found in both explicit and implicit passages in Mein Kampf and other speeches/writings by Hitler and Goebbels particularly) was to:

1. Encourage/force approximately 1/3 of Europe's Jews to emigrate
2. Enslave approximately 1/3, at least temporarily, for the war machine (with the understanding that they would be worked to death, be killed or emigrate at the end of their usefulness)
3. Exterminate approximately 1/3 directly


If folks want to say that the Jewish victims of the Holocaust get more attention than, say Soviet citizens in the Ukraine and Western Russia, or Chinese victims of the Empire of Japan, that's fair. To suggest that Nazi Germany didn't make a good faith effort to rid Europe of Jews in an ungentle, genocidal way is ludicrous. Laughable. Credibility-destroying tripe.

Period.