[Calvin Locke]

...they’re trying to play down the crimes of the Nazi cooperators and claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad...

In George "Spooky Guy" Soros, it's a 3-fer. A Jewish, Commie, cooperator.

[Cronos]

well, the Nazis targeted Jews, but the Communists killed everyone.

Take Poland - 20% of the population were killed during WWII, half of these were of Jewish origin * and the other half were Poles. The Communists were equal opportunity killers

Or Belarus -- huge numbers were killed, up to 25% of the population - jewish and non-Jewish

[stormer]

Well, Soviet Communism certainly killed more people than the Holocaust and there were no doubt Jewish nomenklatura.

[SkyDancer]

Probably using the bible of David Irving ......

[skinndogNN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Will_Fall

I watched this documentary last night on HBO. Part of it was made by Alfred Hitchcock, but was never released.

Beyond *graphic*. But it reminds us how evil the Nazis were. And even the German people who live near these camps. Unbelievable.

[circlecity]

"claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad, and that both of them committed genocide.”

While this is certainly true it doesn't lessen the horror or magnitude of the holocaust one bit.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[notdownwidems]

claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad, and that both of them committed genocide.”

Uh, the crimes of the communists were just as bad, and both of them did commit genocide.

[dfwgator]

And documentation showed that Hitler’s intent was to wipe out Poles as a race by the 1970s through forced sterilization, but they wanted to get some slave labor out of them before killing them off.

[dfwgator]

And as one prominent Nazi said, “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday People.”

[Repeal 16-17]

In post-Communist eastern Europe, they’re trying to play down the crimes of the Nazi cooperators and claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad, and that both of them committed genocide.

How does showing the Communists' crimes "were just as bad" as those of the Nazis lessen the Nazi crimes? It should show that the Communists were at least as psychotic as the Nazis. The Communists were able to kill millions more than the Nazis because the Communists usually weren't fighting wars (directly at least) while killing their own citizens on an industrial scale (e.g., Stalin and Mao).

[Verginius Rufus]

During the era of Communist rule, the official version of history talked about the Nazi crimes but omitted the fact that they especially targeted Jews...so people who grew up in the post-war era may be poorly informed about the Holocaust. Of course there have been 25 years since the downfall of Communism when objective information has been easier to come by.

[Crapolla]

even to claim that among the Communist criminals were Jews too
Is he for real? I thought quite a few Komisars were jews.

[Grzegorz 246]

“...claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad, and that both of them committed genocide.”

Zuroff elaborated “they're trying to reduce the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and even to claim that among the Communist criminals were Jews too.”

“The chief Nazi hunter reminds that the Prague Declaration of 2008 included an open attempt to connect the crimes of the Communists and the Nazis, and equate them.”

That's one of the most disgusting things I've read in a while. With people like this guy, no wonder anti-semitism exists.

[Skooz]

The snippet confuses me.

Is acknowledging the crimes of communism now akin the being a holocaust denier?