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To: redgolum
"In later years the Germans moved from verbal demonization to physical action using pesticides to gas mainly Jews."

Sorry, but it wasn't "mainly Jews".

According to Rummel,

(http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM)

the Nazis exterminated on the order of 22,500,000 people. The Jews didn't even constitute a majority of those so killed. The ethnic group that suffered the worst under the Nazis was NOT the Jews--but the Slavs, with the Slavs suffering almost twice as many dead--~10.5 million as opposed to ~5.3 million.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.TAB1.1.GIF)

9 posted on 05/19/2005 6:49:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog; redgolum
It was mainly Jews who were gassed.

Most of the Nazis Slavic victims were either soldiers or resistance fighters killed in battle or civilians killed in reprisals and raids, like the famous one at Lidice.

Only a small fraction of Slavic victims of the Nazis were gassed in the camps.

11 posted on 05/19/2005 6:53:32 AM PDT by wideawake (q)
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To: Wonder Warthog

For every person of Jewish descent killed in the camps, 1.3-1.4 persons of non Jewish descent were killed.


27 posted on 05/19/2005 8:49:04 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
That 22,500,000 figure is just not believable. You can count the russian army battle casualties as being "exterminated". Otherwise the Allies were guilty of the E word too. Hyperbole undercuts your argument.
32 posted on 05/19/2005 1:11:53 PM PDT by aspiring.hillbilly
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To: Wonder Warthog
Most of those gassed were jews.
35 posted on 05/19/2005 2:28:04 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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