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Originally posted by Strange Famous
Should holocaust denial be a crime? I believe it should.
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I'm not trying to be difficult here and I don't think that this is nitpicking, but what about those people who feel that the Holocaust was a strictly Jewish event. They don't deny that the Holocaust happen but rather exclude a large number of Holocaust victims, mainly non-Jewish Poles. Is that a form of Holocaust denial?
Yes Hitler targeted the Jews but also the non-Jewish Poles to the tune of, by most accurate sources 1.9 million. By many accounts, people seem to think the slaughter of non-Jewish Poles is in the 20,000 to 30,000 range. I have read that figure countless times in several publications when any discussion of the Holocaust is revisited. Maybe this is because the Poles were not strictly confined to the death camps but were also killed in the work camps or in fields at mass grave sites.
Again, I'm not trying to be a pain in the ass. I just think that to remember only the unfortunate Jewish people who were slaughtered and no one else is highly insensitive to all Holocaust victim's and survivers and families of those.
Anyone with free time can wade throught the myriad of sites by googling 'non-Jewish Holocaust victim's.'