defining the Holocaust?

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In einer eMail vom 30.09.00 11:17:20 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
jbor at bigpond.com:

<<  In one of the forgotten Holocausts of the Third Reich, more than 2
 > million of some 3.5 million Soviet prisoners were dead by February
 > 1942 as a result of mass starvation and disease
 
 That's a *pluralisation* of the term. It denotes another, or different,
 "Holocaust" to "the genocidal murder of the Jews by the Nazis in
 WW II", which is the generally accepted definition of the proper noun. >>
Indeed, jbor, there are many different ways of killing and different kinds of 
people you can annihilate. It remembers me at the "discussion" in Germany 
about the Wehrmacht exhibition which was  also shown in the US in the 
meantime.

Kurt-Werner Pörtner