There is a difference between genocide and war.
In war people get killed, the larger the war (and WWII was the largest) the more die.
Genocide is murder. People are rounded up on the basis of their religion, names entered into ledgers, photographs taken, and they are fed into a vast mechanism designed to murder them in cold blood. All done as a formal part of deliberate government policies and actions.
Don’t you think six million killed in the prosecution of a war is quite different than six million murdered one-by-one by an organized government with specific policies, based on either their religion, ethnicity, or color of skin?
Sure, a dead person is a dead person, but don’t you think 50,000 men, women, and children of all races and creeds killed in automobile accidents in the USA has quite a different meaning than 50,000 people getting a bullet in the back of the head, courtesy of a government, because they are Jewish?
I don’t mean to lecture here, so I apologize if it comes off that way, but there IS a significant difference.
The death of non-combat humans in warfare is tragic, sometimes necessary, sometimes not, and occasionally evil.
The orchestrated death of humans by a government because of their religious belief or color of skin is always evil. Always.
One comment I got from one of the history shows I watch came from a British WWII vet who said “We were good men who committed acts of unspeakable brutality because the nazis would accept nothing less from us”.
Agreed, I don’t have any issues with what you’ve said in your post.