question re Dora camp

[Doug Millison]

I agree with your appraisal.

It sounds as if you might agree that the Holocaust is now generally 
understood to include Jews and other minorities, slave labourers, 
Soviet POWs, etc.  Is that the case? Or would you disagree that this 
is a commonly accepted view of the Holocaust?

Some narrow definitions of the Holocaust would include only Jewish 
victims, although many dictionaries now define Holocaust to include 
Jews and other minorities. I've seen material on the ADL Web site 
that suggests they consider the slave labourers to be part of the 
Holocaust, too.

Thanks again,
Doug

At 4:39 PM -0400 10/3/00, Ken McVay wrote:
>
>
>In my mind, the Holocaust comprised the deliberate targeting of
>innocents, as opposed, for instance, to collaterial victims of bombings
>or ship sinkings, etc.
>
>The largest groups of Holocaust victims were the European Jews,
>followed by about (if memory serves, but don't quote me) 3 million
>Soviet POWs.
>
>Slave labourers were systematically worked to death. At Monowitz, their
>diet was about 320 calories a day, which sounds pretty deliberate to
>me.
>
>Many of the victims who were sent to Dora were arrested as "racial
>inferiors" and sent to Auschwitz first... I would find it strange if
>one were to insist that such a person would be a Holocaust victim if he
>was sent to Auschwitz, but not if he then went to Dora.
>
>I am amazed that anyone would even raise the issue.
>
>You wrote:
>>Dear Mr. McVay,
>>
>>Thanks very much for your response, in which you indicate that you
>would call  the Dora inmates Holocaust victims.


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