To: rmlew
The new Holocaust revisionists deny that the Slavs were targetted, and that 8 million non combatants died at Nazi hands.
To: sobieski
The Slavs were not targetted for extermination, JUST tertiation. I believe that the Nazis wanted 1/3 killed, 1/3 expelled, and 1/3 enslaved.
This would have been a horrendous crime against humanity, but not genocide.
Few Slavic people were killed for racial reasons, although one could argue that German allocation of food that lead to much starvation was a form of targeted killing.
As for your numbers about 12-13 million people were killed of which ~6 million were Jews, ~300,00 where Gypsies, over 1 million other non-Slavs (political, religioes, effeminate homosexuals...) annd the remaining 4 to 5 million were Slavic people.
The reason why some JEws (foolishly) downplay this is because anti-Semitic revisionists play with the numbers to try to minimize Jewish deaths.
Frankly, if you want to talk about mass-murder of Slavs, Stalin wins by a factor of 10.
194 posted on
02/25/2004 6:38:19 PM PST by
rmlew
(Peaceniks and isolationists are objectively pro-Terrorist)
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