Holocaust or holocausts?

[jbor]

on 7/15/01 2:28 AM, KXX4493553 at aol.com at KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> In the AJC surveys, respondents were asked to choose, among various possible
> definitions of the term "the Holocaust," the definition they considered to be
> the most accurate. In view of the prolonged grappling of the German
> educational system with the Holocaust, it is not surprising to learn that, in
> Germany, the percentage of respondents who correctly defined the term was
> higher than in any other country: 81 percent of the German respondents said
> that the Holocaust was the extermination, murder or persecution of the Jews.

This *definition* is also the one given in the three dictionaries (Oxford,
Collins, Macquarie), two encyclopedias, and Brewer's Phrase and Fable (20th
C. and Millennium Edition), which I've looked at.

Which makes me ask again how honest the following statement is:

on 7/14/01 5:36 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> By the way, pretty much any dictionary, encyclopedia,
> history, account, whatever in my experinece (which
> isn't any more limited than anybody else's here, I
> imagine) does actualy take into account the deaths of
> non-Jewish prisoners in the camps (concentration,
> labor, whatever, 

It's not the real issue (but it has certainly been Millison's sole point of
attack and persecution over the past two years).