NP I'll give you a Holocaust

[davemarc]

> From: Robert Norton <rnorton at unm.edu>
> 
> How about reserving capital "H" Holocaust for what King Leopold visited
> upon the Congo 100 years ago, next to which the fate of the Jews and
> Gypsies in Europe falls clearly into second place? Or are the lives of
> 10,000,000 black Africans somehow less important than those of 6,000,000
> Jews and Gypsies.
> 
> How soon we forget.
> 
How about giving up on viewing Holocausts as contests or sporting events,
where there's a "first place," "second place," etc.? 

And incidentally, as mentioned before on this list, an estimated 13,000,000
died in the Holocaust:  

6,000,000 Jews
3,300,000 Soviet POWs
3,000,000 non-Jewish Poles
>500,000 Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah's witnesses

I'm repeating these figures for accuracy's sake, not to diminish the
magnitude of the enslavement, exploitation, and mass murder King Leopold
inflicted upon the Congo.

d.