[eyalm]

The Nazis established a massive, systemic and vicious program for the complete annihilation of any "enemy" of the aryan race, and by "enemy" we are talking about innocent jews, Romani and many more (although, the complete annihilation of the jewish people was it's main target). You may know this as the "Final Solution". I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program.

This does not mean that other atrocities done by any other group of people (including the "allies") are not horrific and should not be condemned or remembered. But, the final solution should always be remembered as an extreme, unique and singular event in modern human history.

[__sr__]

> I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program.

Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD. Events of the same magnitude as the holocast (or worse) happend again and again. Read about the ‘conquests’ of the likes of Mahmood Ghaznavi, Muhammad of Ghor, Taimur the Lame, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Nader Shah, Mughals and countless others. Read about the atrocities committed by them to the people they conquered and tell me that the Nazi holocast was a singular event.

[adamnemecek]

> Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD.

Can you recommend any books?

[__sr__]

You can start with Wikipedia[1]. I’ve read more then a few books over the years — I’ll find some for you.

[1] I know Wikipedia is not the best source, but it should give you some idea of what I am talking about. Here are some links:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_campaign_of_Ahmad_Sha...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Shah%27s_invasion_of_t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_of_Ghazni#Ghaznavid_c...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus

[adamnemecek]

I was aware of some of this but will check it out further.

[__sr__]

Here is a book about something that happened as recently as 1971 — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...

[adamnemecek]

Looks like something I should know about. Bought the book.

[__sr__]

And here is something that happened in the “Modern” world — circa 1971. May not be at the same scale as the Nazi Holocast, but no less horrifying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Blood#The_Blood_teleg...

[adamnemecek]

> I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program.

Again, there's for example the Bengali famine.

> But, the final solution should always be remembered as an extreme, unique and singular event in modern human history.

If you consider singular events maybe. Other countries did it slower and over longer periods and there were multiple events. Idk if efficacy really makes a moral difference to me.

If you consider modern history maybe. However the problem with this formulation is that modern history generally starts around WW2 so in some sense, holocaust was the last event of this colonial style of thinking.