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			== Non Jewish ==

			The holocaust was not just Jewish murders. There were five million others murder. This page is a lie ] (]) 11:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
	==Intro needs to be changed. It's misleading ==
			:{{tq\|The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.}}" This page is about that, for other genocides look further {{tq\|Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs);}} If you only had an ability to read with comprehension. ] (]) 13:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

			::Sorry this is Zionist Propaganda.. the Holocaust was about White Christian Supremacy and Nationalism.. they murdered as many non jews and Jews.. Sorry by this page is a lie in denial and disingenuous. PERIOD.
	I don't agree with the first paragraph
			::You insults prove my point.. its typical MAGA right wing crappp when you dont have an answer because I state the truth you resort to attacks ] (]) 16:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

	"The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt") also known as Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"; Yiddish: חורבן, Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, under the command of Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories."

	It implies that the holocaust was just a Jewish tragedy. They were obviously the biggest affected group, but 5 million Christians also died in it. It's not acceptable to imply it was solely a Jewish tragedy in the lead line, then only explain later that millions of others also died in it.

	The intro is fine, if it's an article about the Jewish holocaust. But this seems to be about the holocaust as a whole. You only quote half the number of people who actually died in it, in the intro. It's 11 million total.

	] (]) 09:49, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
	:I think making the Jewish group stand out more does make sense, given that they are by far the largest ethnic group to be targeted, though perhaps the 1st and 2nd paragraphs of the lede could be simply combined into 1 paragraph. This would mention the other 5 million in the same leading paragraph while still focusing more on the Jews. Thoughts? ] (]) 14:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
	::I disagree because the Holocaust is universally recognized as a Jewish event. The Nazis obviously killed millions and when you include the many millions more killed by the communists and others during WWII the total is something in excess of 60 million total casualties. The Nazis, however, specifically targeted Jews for extermination just because they were Jews. Over six million total Jewish people were killed and many if not most were not exterminated in gas chambers of death camps but killed by other means. If we include the others killed by other means the Holocaust loses its unique and important aspect in that the Jewish people were targeted as a group for systematic extermination. Many Roma died in those camps as well (mostly due to horrific conditions and now due to extermination via gas like Zyklon-B) but they recognize their own suffering as the Porjamas. Should we include the millions of ethnic Poles in the Holocaust as well? Of course not. I believe it is insulting to the Jewish people to include other groups deaths. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:40, 30 October 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	:::The intro is misleading. Is not recognized as purely Jewish event. But apparently there is an attempt to have it recognized as a Jewish event. Some think the plight of "other people" is inferior and not worthy of being mentioned here, probably should be deported to other articles. Oxford (the Holocaust) The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-5. Mirriam Webster: the Holocaust the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II. <small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 13:55, 30 November 2014 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP -->
	:::'''"the Holocaust is universally recognized as a Jewish event…"''' No, it isn't. --] (]) 20:36, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

	This article is disgusting, it is inaccurate and should be changed. They are directly pushing out false information and not representing the full extent of the event. How dare they say recognising other peoples death in the Holocaust is an 'insult' . This is why no one can rely on Misplaced Pages for anything, because you have people like that who are more concerned with upholding an agenda rather than facts. <small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 16:10, 30 November 2014 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

	I was just about to make the same comments as the OP. The Holocaust was not just the attempted extermination of the Jews, it was an attempted extermination of all people classified as 'undesirables' by the Nazis. It is only considered a 'Jewish event' (that in itself is horrifying as 'events' are usually joyful occasions) because when it was first discovered the western world didn't care about the killing of disabled people (seen as worthless degenerates up until very recently) or homosexuals (illegal until recently and still illegal in many places) or Slavs/Poles (they were part of the eastern block after the war so the West didn't care) etc. I am changing the intro to reflect the reality: that the Holocaust was the extermination of 'undesirables'. ]<sup> ]</sup> 15:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

	Revert of figure of 11 Million:
	This is relevant to the above section on changing the intro. This issue has been discussed many times on this page. The introduction makes it clear that the Holocaust is about the genocide or mass murder of European Jews. This is the definition used by major historians who are experts on the period which is made clear in footnote 3. Up until now there has not been a consensus to change this. That the Nazis carried out other genocides and massacres, some of which have their own WP articles, is clear.--] (]) 10:59, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

	I should add that what is confusing about the article is not the introduction but all the stuff that has been tacked on which while important, does not pertain to the mass murder of the Jews.--] (]) 11:11, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

	:This discussion clearly shows that there is no consensus for your revert whatsoever. This thread clearly comes to the conclusion that {{user\|Gaia Octavia Agrippa}}'s change is the one that matches consensus, so your edit should be reverted. I agree with Gaia's version as well. The full eleven million should be included in the first sentence.--<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 11:28, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
	::Thanks for your support {{ping\|Melody Lavender}}. I agree that the consensus of the discussion above supported my edit. I also made sure to stress targeting of the Jews in the opening sentence. Here's what I put, I think it is a good compromise ]<sup> ]</sup> 16:52, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
	{{cquote\|The Holocaust ... was a genocide in which approximately 11 million people, including six million Jews, were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators}}
	::A reply to Melody above: a consensus was required to insert the 11 million not for my revert, the few recent comments completely ignore a long lasting discussion and certainly do not represent a consensus for changing the figure. I among many would not go along with the change. I have explained this position already here: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:The_Holocaust&oldid=625056062#6_million_or_11_million.3F more down below.( BTW I had placed my explanation in a new section at the end of the talk page which you changed. A chronological order of the sections faciliates an ongoing discussion, a normal practice I believe) ] (]) 12:11, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

	== Footnote 281. ==

	The following link became unavailable: http://www.ds-rs.si/dokumenti/publikacije/Zbornik_05-1.pdf
	The new location is: http://www.ds-rs.si/sites/default/files/dokumenti/zbornik_zrtve_vojne_in_revolucije.pdf<small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 17:59, 21 November 2014 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

	Thank you for providing the working link. The replacement has made on the page.--] (]) 19:00, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

	== Replace Poles with Slavs - its more accurate. ==

	More than just non-Jewish ethnic Poles were also killed during the war, this includes Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians and other Slavs.

	"Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes include Gypsies, '''Poles''', communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled. In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including one million Jewish children alone."

	To:

	"Non-Jewish victims of broader Nazi crimes include Gypsies, '''Slavs''', communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled. In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including one million Jewish children alone."--] (]) 16:33, 22 November 2014 (UTC)


	:Actually, it's less accurate, considering Poles are also Slavs and so are Soviet POWs.... but I digress.
	Though I try to maintain an encyclopedic tone, it pisses me off when Russians try to co-opt the Holocaust for propaganda, just as Stalin did——especially since the majority of Neo-Nazis in the world are Russian. We get it, you did most of the fighting with Hitler, and we should acknowledge that more. Lots of Soviets died on the Eastern Front and they saved our asses on many occasions. And yes, Nazis did have a racist hatred of Slavs which reflects the high death rate of Soviet POWS. If it were expedient for Hitler to kill a whole bunch of Slavs, would he? ]. ] recommended the genocide of Jews in theory, but only Hitler carried it out.
	But even though the USSR was in a brutal war with Germany (that part is important), they didn't hate Slavs, even combatants—enough to consciously seek them out, ghettoize them, and exterminate them at the expense of the German State. If they captured Slavic POWs in battle, sure they'd kill some of them... but Jews (and Roma) were killed DESPITE the war, not BECAUSE of it. The ] was a military operation—a barbaric one which killed mostly civilians, but hey, you can say the same about the ]. The siege of Leningrad ended when Hitler realized it was futile. The ] was liquidated only when enough Jews would be killed. Hence, the Siege of Leningrad was a "war crime", not a genocide. Slavs were not persecuted to nearly the extent Poles were under German occupation, not to mention Jews (for which a comparison is laughable trivialization). This equivocating needs to end. It's great that wikipedia is recognizing Nazi crimes against various groups instead of lumping all the victims into "Jews" simply because the vast majority of civilian deaths were Jewish, but there's something wrong when a genocide defined as "the death of 6 million Jews" has an asterisk next to it. In fact, I've seen racists on forums say that "Jews exaggerate the Holocaust" because "More Russians died than Jews" (you mean more Russian soldiers???)... I wonder where they got that idea. Anyway, emotion aside... just no. Misplaced Pages should not be a platform for revisionism. --<small style="font: 13px Courier New>]<big>_</big>]</span></small> 19:38, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

	:This is not a forum, and your ill-informed commentary is of no relevance whatsoever to article content. ] (]) 19:48, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

	== subtle difference between "dying" and "lying" ==

	dear all, I do like the way this page is totally clear from propaganda.
	unfortunately it came to my attention that the image of a child have an incorrect description.
	from the you can see and read that the image is decribed as "child lying on the streets", instead in our glorious propaganda free entry it states "child dying".
	Please dear admins who protected the page provide correcting the mispelling in our page.
	thank you and keep up the good work keeping wikipedia free of npov and unsourced material. cheers!--] (]) 10:43, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
	:{{done}} ] (]) 11:02, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

	==Mommsen quote==
	I agree with the 09:20, 27 November 2014‎ edit by Giraffedata that the quote is excessive, but Mommsen is an important expert and his three forms are generally used by other historians, perhaps under different names, i.e. Friedlander uses the term redemptive antisemitism for the violent racist form. I have paraphrased Mommsen's forms and re-inserted the reference.] (]) 11:17, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
	:The reference for this quote is to a primary source (Mommsen himself is interviewed). Our ] asks for secondary sources, so you would have to find books or journal articles by other authors that quotes Mommsen's theory.--<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 11:38, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
	::This reference is not what is usually meant by primary source. Mommsen is interviewed by a Yad Vashem team which quoted him in their published interview. He has written the same thing in one of his books, but it is in German.--] (]) 21:22, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
	::It is not a "primary source" at all (not that there's any rule against using primary sources). The real issue is whether it is sufficiently noteworthy to be given such prominence. ] (]) 21:37, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
	:::{{u\|Joel Mc}} An interview in that form (with direct quotations, word by word) is a classic example of a ] by any academic standard. And yes, there are rules against using primary sources, {{u\|Paul Barlow}}, see ].--<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 20:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
	::::It is not by any stretch a "classic example of a primary source". This is a scholar summarising his research. The fact that it is spoken rather than written is irrelevant. A lecture by a scholar is also not a primary source. You seem to have next to no idea what a primary source is. Regarding "rules against using primary sources". Why don't ''you'' read ]. You will find there is no ban on primary sources as you initially claimed. So you are wrong on both counts. If you want to debate the issue go to ]. ] (]) 20:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
	:::::The link you're posting goes to a noticeboard, Paul. Mommsen is the original source for his theory. A lecture by a scholar about ''his own theory'' is a primary source. While primary sources may be allowed under some circumstances, an important high profile article with lots of traffic that seems to be locked down all the time for ''edit wars'' (seriously?) is certainly no place for any leniency on sources. You'd have deniers roaming the place in no time. If you couldn't find the place on the page I linked which according to you ''I'' didn't read, here is the link to the section: ]. --<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 06:56, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
	:::::Here is another link that also directly explains primary, secondary, tertiary sources: ]. It also specifically mentions that you should, like I said, use common sense on when to allow primary sources. Again, a difficult topic like this one is obviously not the place, imho.--<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 07:00, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

	== Inclusion of the 5 million non-Jews ==
	There has been an effort to remove any reference to the five million non-Jews from the lead section apparently invoking the "uniqueness" argument discussed further down in the article. This has gone so far as to suggest that contrary opinions are "Fringe." While I absolutely agree that we can't just say that the total number is eleven million, we can't ignore the very significant debate on this subject which definitely exists within mainstream academic circles. I adjusted the text to reflect the controversy while giving weight to the six million. This seems to be a reasonable compromise. I would like some consensus however in the event that there is disagreement and a desire to adopt the "uniqueness" argument as the <s>official</s> position of Misplaced Pages based on reliable source coverage. If the more expansive view is indeed Fringe then we would also need to heavily edit that section to reflect this. -] (]) 19:59, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

	:Agreed. It is demonstrably false to assert that suggestions by credible historians that non-Jewish victims should be counted amongst those included in the Holocaust are 'fringe'. Our article cites multiple sources which argue the contrary. This ''is'' a controversial argument, but that is no reason to exclude it from the article - and if it is in the article, it should also be noted in the lede. ] (])
	:: I agree that we need to reach some consensus. I've asked for the page to have temporary full protection to stop edit wars etc until an consensus can be reached. The question is: '''should we include the deaths of non-Jews in the first sentence of the introduction?''' Unless someone has a better question? ]<sup> ]</sup> 02:12, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
	:::It's not in the first sentence. It's in the second. The first references only the six million. However, the real question is can we exclude any mention of the controversy from the opening paragraph of the article where the very term is being defined? I think not. -] (]) 04:32, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

	:First of all, the issue here is about a definition, not about the "uniqueness" argument which is something quite different and a bit of a red herring in this discussion. The major historians of this period writing in English use the definition of the Holocaust as the mass murder of the Jews. (The French do not have this problem as the term "Shoah" does not include the 5 million non-jews) I still have yet to see a reference to a major historian which includes in the definition the mass murder of 5 million non-Jews. Secondly, I have no problem in mentioning the 5 million, it just that they aren't usually part of the definition. Thirdly, I have no problem putting in that there is controversy about the definition--I would like to see the multiple sources that would include the 5 million--Niewyk et al list 4 possible definitions, but in the end do not opt for including all of the 5 million non-jews. The references they examine are not using the term as a proper noun, i.e. The Holocaust, but in a more generic sense, i.e. the other holocaust, the Polish holocaust etc, thus interchangeable with the word genocide. Finally, I reverted Gaia's insertion of 11 million because it did not represent a consensus. I am not interested in an edit war, but would appreciate if the the 6 million figure remains until a consensus for change is found. I would not agree to adding the 5 million figure to the definition of the Holocaust ] (]) 12:57, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

	::Shoah is clearly defined, Holocaust is not. Niewyk (p. 51-52) states that there is a trend back towards usage of a very broad definition, including all Nazi victims. He says it's mostly too complicated to analyze this, and says scholars make it easier for themselves by narrowing the definition and then proceeds to use a narrow definition for his own work. Also, according to this author (p.45), the term was used during the time of WW II to describe the entirety of the massacres. Another thing to consider is ]. The common name for the Nazi mass murders is Holocaust. The original intention behind the ideology of the Nazis was based on ] - first and foremost, according to this ideology, they wanted to murder ''everyone'' who didn't belong to their vision of a so called ]. The real execution of this plan did turn out to be first and foremost an incomporable genocide of Jews. I think the current version of the lead is a good solution. And I'm not sure that the issue of uniqueness is unrelated. In any case the uniqueness aspect is not adequately covered in the article. There's a tiny section at the bottom that has only primary refs. --<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 21:49, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
	*This is the link to the ref that was mentioned by me and Joel Mc above:
	Niewyk, Donald L. and Nicosia, Francis R. '''', ], 2000, pp. 45-52.
	--<font style="border:2px solid #C0C0C0;padding:1px;background:ivory;"><sup>]</sup> <span style="position: relative; left: -30px; margin-right: -30px;"><sub>]</sub></span></font> 21:52, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
	:Thanks for the link. I shall give it a proper read through tomorrow. Interesting that he highlights the controversy around the definition of The Holocaust and the fixed definition of Sho'ah: perhaps we could keep the article, The Holocaust', as an overarching summary of the wider definition (Jews and non-Jews) with a re-direct to Sho'ah for the Jew-centric/narrow definition (that sounds terrible and I apologise, I'm just not sure what else to call it) holocaust? One quick point of interest: p. 46 says 'roughly half of the 11,000,000 European Jews' were murdered this contrasts with the 2/3 of 9 million European Jews in the article. I also wonder of there is a difference in European vs American definitions (I'm British).]<sup> ]</sup> 00:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

	Didn't Wiesenthal pull that number out of a hat? What research corroborates his claim? ] (]) 16:47, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

			== Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 31 December 2024 ==
	== Finkelstein ==
	{{re\|Monochrome Monitor}} {{re\|Ykantor}} Please read ] and ]. Note the Google citation index for the work: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=16867769263411460043&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en ; 389 results. It is thus a work of scholarship, a notable one at that. It's also hardly fringe, as lead Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg has defended its thesis, and many reviewers have defended it. ], and is very notable—much more so than the other works which were cited. It is published, notable and claims made by it are attributed to it. There is no reason for it to be excluded. If you continue to play this game on deliberately excluding prolific scholars <s>to maintain your perverse, POV Zionist narrative<s> in a section which shouldn't even exist, I will RfC. ] (]) 20:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

			{{edit extended-protected\|The Holocaust\|answered=yes}}
	: Yours: "''If you continue to play this game on deliberately excluding prolific scholars to maintain your perverse, POV Zionist narrative in a section which shouldn't even exist, I will RfC."''
			In Rise of Nazi Germany - Persecution of Jews, 3rd paragraph. Grammar error
	* it is amazing that you try to frighten us by calling an RFC. On the contrary, we would like to have an RFC. I can't believe that too many people here believe in Finkelstein lies.
			"Out of the 560000 jews 130000 was able to emigrate between 1933 and 1937, most of them towards South Africa, Mandatory Palestine, and South America."
	* "''The Zionist narrative"''? You have to study the Holocaust. A lot of the murdered Jews were not Zionist at all, probably most of them. They were killed because they were Jews. The Nazis did not care whether the victims opposed or believed in Zionism. It suggested that you read , with its internal contradictions and vague writing. e.g. In order "to truly learn from the Nazi holocaust," he asserts, "its physical dimension must be reduced and its moral dimension expanded." Do you understand this sentence? do we have to hide Auschwitz? ] (]) 22:02, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

			"Out of the 560,000 Jews in Germany, 130,000 were able to..." ] (]) 06:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
	::{{re\|Ykantor}} That's irrelevant. Being negatively reviewed isn't sufficient to warrant exclusion. Let me repeat: the source is '''notable''', '''secondary''', '''due''' and '''published''' and, moreover, the claims its makes are '''attributed''' to it. It is a biased source, and not representative of the mainstream opinion, but those two issues are also not sufficient to warrant exclusion. As noted, lead Holocaust historian, Raul Hilberg, agreed with the book's thesis. Its reception was mixed. Again, there is absolutely nothing, per Misplaced Pages policy, which would suggest it should be removed.
			: Done ] (]) 08:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
	::Now, I will explain the "Zionist narrative" issue. I struck it down, but it was clearly interpreted the wrong way, as I have been threatened with A-I sanctions. I would like to make absolutely clear that I am not denying the Holocaust. The reason I brought up the Zionist narrative is because, at least in my view and that of some scholars in the field, that people like you go to great lengths—absurdly great lengths, as you and Monochrome have shown—to maintain the Holocaust as a both ''unique'' and ''Jewish'' event, and deliberately exclude dissenting views. This is the more extreme view regarding the Holocaust; that the Holocaust marked the climax of a fanatical, eternal Gentile hatred of Jews. This is, of course, quite interconnected with the view that a Jewish state is necessary, or Zionism. If the Holocaust was simply another genocide, and the Jews were just another victim of the many demographic groups the Nazis slaughtered, then the travail of European Jewry during that period fails to take on any unique significance, and thus the extreme thesis of an 'eternal', 'irrational' hatred becomes more flimsy. All of the sources in the "uniqueness" section support this "uniqueness" theory. Per ], it is necessary to provide criticism, and Finkelstein's work is excellent for that. ] (]) 06:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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	:::All right, please lets try to be ]. I presume JDiala's reference to Zionism was about current/contemporary/modern bias, am I right {{re\|JDiala}}? I agree that Finkelstein's book is notable and his view point is hardly so far out of the game park that shouldn't be included. At most it falls under ], which warrants an inclusion stating that it is a controversial or minority viewpoint.
	:::{{re\|Ykantor}}. No one here is denying The Holocaust, there is no reason to go there. ]<sup> ]</sup> 00:27, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
	::::{{re\|Gaia Octavia Agrippa}}Yes, I apparently did not make myself clear enough, and I apologize for that. I did not deny the Holocaust. By "prolific scholars" I did not mean deniers, I meant Finkelstein; and by "Zionist narrative" I did not mean the occurrence of the event itself, but the "uniqueness" theory. ] (]) 06:42, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

			{{edit extended-protected\|The Holocaust\|answered=yes}}
	::::I agree with user:JDiala, Finkelstein is a reliable source and both points of view should be represented, as per ] ] (]) 01:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
			he Holocaust primarily targeted Jews, with approximately 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. However, millions of non-Jews were also killed during this period as part of the Nazi regime's broader campaign of persecution and extermination. Estimates for non-Jewish victims include:
	::::: Gaia Octavia Agrippa: I watched your contributions and it seems that you are very valuable editor. Hence your words concerning Zionism are are especially hurting. What is the connection between Zionism / Israel and the Holocaust? What Israeli interest is supposedly connected to the Holocaust? During Israel first years, Israel was weak and the powers refused to sell her defensive weapons, although the Holocaust just happened. Only when they considered Israel as a strong nation (after the Israeli victory of 1967 war), the American started to support Israel ( while the USSR and France joined the enemy side). Israel survival has nearly nothing to do with the Holocaust. However, a lot of people are against Israel, because of reasons which has nothing to do with Israel deeds. Those people like those conspiracy theories (e.g. Finkelstein) and happy to quote his writing instead of checking it themselves. e.g. what did he meant by In order "to truly learn from the Nazi holocaust," he asserts, "its physical dimension must be reduced and its moral dimension expanded.". What physical dimension must be reduced? are the researching historians receiving commands from Israel? or from a Jewish committee? ] (]) 20:13, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
	::::::If this is responding to anything that ] said, I'm a loss to understand what it is. This mini-essay seems to a case for ] as it does not in any way address the issue under debate and includes highly inappropriate inflammatory claims about alleged motivations. ] (]) 20:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
	::::::- Sorry, I accept that the alleged motivations are a case of ]
	::::::- I wonder why JDiala accusations are accepted here with no remarks. He says that supposedly:
	::::::*JDiala : "'' the Holocaust marked the climax of a fanatical, eternal Gentile hatred of Jews. This is,... interconnected with the view that a Jewish state is necessary, or Zionism. If the Holocaust was simply another genocide, and the Jews were just another victim of the many demographic groups the Nazis slaughtered, then the travail of European Jewry during that period fails to take on any unique significance, and thus the extreme thesis of an 'eternal', 'irrational' hatred becomes more flimsy."'' This is another anti Zionist propaganda. There is no necessary connection between the uniqueness and Zionism. Zionist ideas were promoted long before the Holocaust and hypothetically, if there was no Holocaust, the Zionists would be still advancing a Jewish state.
	::::::*JDiala : "''the extreme thesis of an 'eternal', 'irrational' hatred"'' . JDiala falsely present it as a Zionist attitude, which is not true. There is an ongoing relevant debate between scholars, but it is not related to Zionism. Surprisingly (for JDiala) , some main stream Zionist historian are opposing the 'eternal', 'irrational hatred' attitude.
	::::::* JDiala :"'' people like you go to great lengths—absurdly great lengths, as you and Monochrome have shown—to maintain the Holocaust as a both ''unique'' and ''Jewish'' event"''. I have not said that at all, although I agree with it. My only claim was that Finkelstein is a "fringe" source, and should not be used. As Jdiala claims that "''Holocaust historian, Raul Hilberg, agreed with the book's thesis"'', he could have quoted Hilberg and solve the problem.

			Romani (Gypsies): Between 200,000 and 500,000.
	@JDiala :
			Disabled individuals: Approximately 250,000, targeted through the T4 euthanasia program.
	<p>- You should have known that a tag(e.g. "Elucidate") should not be deleted unless the issue is solved.
			Polish civilians: Around 1.8 to 2 million non-Jewish Poles.
	<P>-you undeleted the sentence: "''He writes that the reason these claims persist is because claims of Holocaust uniqueness also confer "unique entitlement" to Jews, and serve as "Israel's prize alibi"''. This sentence is an antisemitic propaganda and it is not directly referring to the issue of uniqueness. It is much better to explain Finkelstein view (e.g. why it not unique) as the "Elucidate" tag indicates. ] (]) 07:30, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
			Soviet civilians and prisoners of war: Between 3.3 and 5 million Soviet POWs and countless civilians.
	:I haven't read the work myself. Have both {{re\|Ykantor}} and {{re\|JDiala}} read it? I would be happier any conclusions about the book were being made having read it and reviews of it, rather than just reviews which may have their own agenda (eg trying to make it sound fantastic or deriding it as anti-Semitic). I should also point out here that anti-Israeli comments are not in themselves anti-Semitic.
			Political dissidents, resistance members, and others: Tens of thousands, including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists.
	:However, the scentance quoted by Ykantor above does need to be rewritten so it is clear that that is Finkelstein's view. At the moment the only evidence of that in the wording it 'He writes'. Perhaps 'he argues' is more clear cut. ]<sup> ]</sup> 17:13, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
			Jehovah’s Witnesses: About 1,900 to 2,000 were executed for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Nazi regime.
	::{{re\|Ykantor}} That is what is written in the work(I have the book). It is paraphrased; I have the actual quotes in the citation, so if you believe I erred in the paraphrase, you may point that out. I have offered arguments affirming the book's reliability as a source, so long as, again, its claims are attributed to the author. Unless you can respond to them, I see no reason why that particular claim should not be included. Labelling it "antisemetic" is simply not an argument. It's an emotive, loaded charge to exclude an otherwise reliable claim. ] (]) 08:00, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
			Homosexuals: Thousands were arrested, with an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 dying in concentration camps.
			In total, estimates for non-Jewish deaths during the Holocaust vary but are generally between 5 to 11 million. Combined with Jewish victims, the Holocaust claimed the lives of roughly 11 to 17 million people. ] (]) 21:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
			:] '''Not done''': it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a ] and provide a ] if appropriate. Note that the very first paragraph of the introduction already reads "Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of these other groups."<!-- Template:EEp --> ] (]) 22:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

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Section size for The Holocaust (32 sections)
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(Top)	4,633	4,633
Terminology and scope	12,717	12,717
Background	4,659	4,659
Rise of Nazi Germany	2,695	8,307
Persecution of Jews	5,612	5,612
Start of World War II	3,970	7,723
Ghettoization and resettlement	3,753	3,753
Invasion of the Soviet Union	3,603	10,892
Mass shootings of Jews	7,289	7,289
Systematic deportations across Europe	2,083	19,434
Extermination camps	7,440	7,440
Liquidation of the ghettos in Poland	5,316	5,316
Deportations from elsewhere	4,595	4,595
Perpetrators and beneficiaries	3,753	3,753
Forced labor	6,047	6,047
Escape and hiding	2,919	2,919
International reactions	2,617	2,617
Second half of the war	27	5,462
Continuing killings	2,980	2,980
Death marches and liberation	2,455	2,455
Death toll	6,929	6,929
Aftermath and legacy	62	15,144
Return home and emigration	1,630	1,630
Criminal trials	2,092	2,092
Reparations	2,297	2,297
Remembrance and historiography	9,063	9,063
Notes	24	24
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The holocaust was not just Jewish murders. There were five million others murder. This page is a lie 31.120.225.228 (talk) 11:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population." This page is about that, for other genocides look further Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); If you only had an ability to read with comprehension. YBSOne (talk) 13:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry this is Zionist Propaganda.. the Holocaust was about White Christian Supremacy and Nationalism.. they murdered as many non jews and Jews.. Sorry by this page is a lie in denial and disingenuous. PERIOD.

You insults prove my point.. its typical MAGA right wing crappp when you dont have an answer because I state the truth you resort to attacks Rossen (talk) 16:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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In Rise of Nazi Germany - Persecution of Jews, 3rd paragraph. Grammar error "Out of the 560000 jews 130000 was able to emigrate between 1933 and 1937, most of them towards South Africa, Mandatory Palestine, and South America."

"Out of the 560,000 Jews in Germany, 130,000 were able to..." EiouNoA (talk) 06:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

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he Holocaust primarily targeted Jews, with approximately 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. However, millions of non-Jews were also killed during this period as part of the Nazi regime's broader campaign of persecution and extermination. Estimates for non-Jewish victims include:

Romani (Gypsies): Between 200,000 and 500,000. Disabled individuals: Approximately 250,000, targeted through the T4 euthanasia program. Polish civilians: Around 1.8 to 2 million non-Jewish Poles. Soviet civilians and prisoners of war: Between 3.3 and 5 million Soviet POWs and countless civilians. Political dissidents, resistance members, and others: Tens of thousands, including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists. Jehovah’s Witnesses: About 1,900 to 2,000 were executed for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Nazi regime. Homosexuals: Thousands were arrested, with an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 dying in concentration camps. In total, estimates for non-Jewish deaths during the Holocaust vary but are generally between 5 to 11 million. Combined with Jewish victims, the Holocaust claimed the lives of roughly 11 to 17 million people. Rossen (talk) 21:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Note that the very first paragraph of the introduction already reads "Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of these other groups." Cannolis (talk) 22:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

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