http://www.timesofisrael.com/remember-the-11-million-why-an-inflated-victims-tally-irks-holocaust-historians/
>Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli Holocaust scholar who chairs the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said he warned his friend Wiesenthal, who died in 2005, about spreading the false notion that the Holocaust claimed 11 million victims – 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews.
How true is this?
>>2413899
You see if those extra 5 million non-jews are remembered Israel will lose its exclusive right to use holocaust as a justification for its actions.
>>2413899
It's true. This term can apply only to Jews and other undesirables such as homosexuals and Gypsies. Yes, a lot of other people were killed (possibly more than 5 million) but the reason was different. Anti-partisan actions in the East (often entire villages were destroyed and people murdered), war casualties, overworking, killing of politicians and intellectuals, diseases, famine and so on.
>>2413899
Im not sure why jews and nazis even sperg out about the numbers.
>>2414110
>sperg out
What?
>>2413899
Huge numbers of Soviet POWs, Eastern European gentile civilians, political undesirables, the disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Romani people died at the hands of the national socialists. Depending on what you choose to include you could get a figure anywhere from 5.4 million (the lowest estimate of only Jewish deaths) to 17 million (all non-combat killings by the National Socialists and their proxies)
>>2413956
Zionism predates the holocaust by like 60 years