[tet68]

Perhaps the difference is that the jews were the first targets of INDUSTRIAL extermination.

[Poohbah]

Another fine point. Germany--the home of such great thinkers as Schiller, Kant, and Goethe--actually set out to industrialize the killing of their fellows. It's not just that Hitler said, "Make it happen," it's that a bunch of industrial engineers said, "Okey-dokey."

[cyborg]

That is what I was taught in temple classes, but I wonder if we have really learned much. Maybe I am just having a cynical day, or PMS.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Perhaps the difference is that the jews were the first targets of INDUSTRIAL extermination.

And it was not tribal in nature, as in the case of Rwanda, nor strictly ethnic. Jews were targeted in Nazi Germany as much for the position they occupied in German society as they were for their ethnicity. An analogy would be a pogrom by blacks against Korean shopowners, auslanders who prosper while the locals fail. In an odd way, it may be possible to look at it like a Marxist revolution, with the propaganda far outstripping the reality.