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Holocaust Denial?
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Apparently Holocaust denial is a crime? Is this only in certain countries or in all countries? Also wjy is it a crime, surely it comes under freedom of speech.
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Booldawg - “Very true and I would like to elaborate on that by mentioning the Russian Revolution where under Stalin 30 million lost their lives a large proportion of which were civilians. The holocaust wasn’t the largest genocide of the 20th century but is the most spoke about. Why is that?”
I think the reason is because the Jewish people were murdered specifically because they were Jewish. It wasn't because they happened to fighting against the Nazis in any particular country and therefore posed a 'threat'. Rather, they were rounded up from within countries already controlled by the Nazis and exterminated for no other reason than their religious beliefs. This is distinct from the Russian civilians who were killed during the Nazi's ultimately doomed invasion of the USSR. The Russian civilians were killed as a lamentable and inevitable consequence of one country attacking another.
I not saying that Russians are less important than the Jewish. Far from it. Everyone is equal as far as I'm concerned.
But the Jewish Holocaust is important because it wasn't specific to one country – it spanned Europe. It also saw the extermination of men, women and children from different ethnic backgrounds (the term 'Jewish race' is a misnomer in exactly the same way as 'Islamic race', or 'Christian race' is). And most importantly of all – it was completely and utterly unnecessary.
Hitler could have achieved his aim of dominating Europe without resorting to death camps. The act of systematically murdering millions of people purely because of their religious belief is a warning from history that should never, ever be forgotten.
I think the reason is because the Jewish people were murdered specifically because they were Jewish. It wasn't because they happened to fighting against the Nazis in any particular country and therefore posed a 'threat'. Rather, they were rounded up from within countries already controlled by the Nazis and exterminated for no other reason than their religious beliefs. This is distinct from the Russian civilians who were killed during the Nazi's ultimately doomed invasion of the USSR. The Russian civilians were killed as a lamentable and inevitable consequence of one country attacking another.
I not saying that Russians are less important than the Jewish. Far from it. Everyone is equal as far as I'm concerned.
But the Jewish Holocaust is important because it wasn't specific to one country – it spanned Europe. It also saw the extermination of men, women and children from different ethnic backgrounds (the term 'Jewish race' is a misnomer in exactly the same way as 'Islamic race', or 'Christian race' is). And most importantly of all – it was completely and utterly unnecessary.
Hitler could have achieved his aim of dominating Europe without resorting to death camps. The act of systematically murdering millions of people purely because of their religious belief is a warning from history that should never, ever be forgotten.
