Nobody in the West ever questions the number of people killed in the following:
1. The Armenian Genocide [the Turks dispute the use of the term, which indicates that it was an organized extermination, not the figures];
2. The Ukrainian Terror-Famine;
3. Cambodia;
3. Srebrenica;
4. East Timor; and
5. Rwanda,
to name but five. But when it comes to the Holocaust, well, there the noisy fringe headscratching begins. Six million Jews in less than ten years? Impossible. Followed by an evil beclowning of the self, if not outright descent into delusion, as we saw recently with Msgr. Williamson and Fred Leuchter.
My goodness, how could modern, industrialized Germany with its advanced war machine, top-notch infrastructure and instilled Jew-hating ideology pull off such a thing in ten years? Yes, a puzzler given that Rwandan Hutus killed at least half a million Tutsis in 100 days without any similar groundwork.
Peculiar, that. I can't imagine what could possibly explain the discrepancies in thought.
A middle-aged husband, father, bibliophile and history enthusiast commenting to no one in particular.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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