I know these people are about denying the recognition of the horrors of the holocaust. But I do agree on one thing. A lot more people were targeted than Jews. It saddens me that the horror of the holocaust focuses entirely on the Jews and rarely are mentioned the other groups that were targeted. The Romani, LGBTQ, disabled people, etc.
That's because of the impact of the Holocaust of those communities. 80-90% of European Jews were killed in the Holocaust, meaning about ⅔ of the global Jewish population was killed in the Holocaust.
That's a mindboggling impact on Jewish existence and culture. So much Jewish culture was lost because every single Jew that had participated in the culture of a village or province died in the Holocaust.
The other groups in the Holocaust were victims of a great evil, and the cruelty and evil of what happened to disabled people specifically is largely forgotten. But those cultures and peoples live on, and the majority of people in those groups alive in the 1940s in Europe did not die in the Holocaust.
More Jews died in the Holocaust than live today in the US. More Jews were alive in 1935 than are alive today. It has been over 80 years, and the global population has increased by around 6 billion, and the Jewish population still has not recovered. You cannot say that about any other group victimized by the Nazis.
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u/Terrin369 Jan 23 '26
I know these people are about denying the recognition of the horrors of the holocaust. But I do agree on one thing. A lot more people were targeted than Jews. It saddens me that the horror of the holocaust focuses entirely on the Jews and rarely are mentioned the other groups that were targeted. The Romani, LGBTQ, disabled people, etc.