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Originally Posted by richlevy
We just had the distinction of being the largest group.
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True, but the Jews also had the courage and the visibility to speak up afterwards and make the world face the truth.
The sum total of Nazi-caused deaths will never be known, especially in places like Russia, where ALL of the inhabitants died or disappeared and there was no one left to tell. It's believed that over a million died as a result of Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Seige of Stalingrad. It's also believed that Idi Amin wiped out a half-million of his own countrymen and other African strongmen have pushed that number far over the million mark since Amin's times, in places like Rwanda, Sudan, and the Congo. At least 25 million indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean Islands and Mexico were exterminated within 80 years after the discovery of the Americas and the administration of these lands by the Spanish. Millions of blacks were sent to die miserably in the jungle plantations of Brazil, many times the number that were ever sent to the British Colonies which later became the USA. It is difficult to say if the removal of any one leader at the time could have prevented any of these atrocities, because the nationalistic, tribal, and religious differences between the killers and the victims were already unresolvable in their minds before the slaughter topped it off.