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by pavelmelnichuk 3437 days ago
Everyone in the west always forgets thats Jews were not the only ones that were victimized by the Nazis, and I feel that this is too often misrepresented from the general knowledge pool of most people in society.

More soviets died there than Jews, and in fact more Non-Jews died there than Jews. Why does everyone ignore that?

Number of Deaths Jews: up to 6 million Soviet civilians: around 7 million Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million Serb civilians: 312,000 People with disabilities: up to 250,000 Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000 Jehovah's Witnesses: Around 1,900 Repeat criminal offenders: at least 70,000

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008193

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All true, but that's standard warfare stuff. Only certain populations were targeted for extermination. Jews were not the only ones but Russians certainly were not.