[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. Yep, I can't make out the statistic pages. There's probably great information here. I read Rummel's delineation of genocide from democide and found that interesting, genocide being the systematic destruction of a people or culture while democide refers to actual numbers of those killed.

I do question his footnote #15 here --

THE HOLOCAUST
IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

"After decades of scholarly research in the German archives, study of reports and official documents of other involved countries, and interviews with participants and survivors, the best estimates of the Holocaust dead still vary by over 40 percent."

I'm always leary of people down-grading the Holocaust. I haven't read yet if this is actually what he's doing, or if that footnote is out of context.

Overall, however, Rummel's taking on such an enormous task and doing so much documented work is really impressive. And the numbers are humbling, aren't they? It's a wonder any of us are alive at all after so much intentional blood-letting. All men are indeed fallen.

[Alamo-Girl]

I'm not sure what to compare the numbers against, but his figure for Hitler is about 21 million killed. That compares to about 43 million for Stalin and 77 million for Mao Zedong.

The Nazi Germany "low" is 15 million and "high" is 32 million - the 21 million is the "medium."

And the numbers are humbling, aren't they? It's a wonder any of us are alive at all after so much intentional blood-letting. All men are indeed fallen.

Oh so very true.

Maranatha, Jesus!