[Guthur]

"where thousands of Jews were killed."

Would be more appropriate and reflective to say "where thousands of people/inmates were killed.". There were many victims in this camp, why is one group held above the rest? I don't think there is even evidence to suggest any particular group was in the majority; considering figures for actual victims varies wildly from 150K to 300K.

In my opinion this sort of emotive journalism is very dangerous, and seems to perpetuate quite widely.

[tokenadult]

You have offered no evidence whatsoever that that statement in the article is incorrect. By contrast, I just finished reading a while ago the three-volume series about the history of the Third Reich by historian Richard Evans (which was recommended in a Hacker News comment in August 2014), and I am sure that there is nothing incorrect at all about saying that thousands of Jews were killed as part of that project. It is true that people of various categories as the Nazis reckoned "races" were killed in slave labor for the Third Reich war effort, but Jews were very prominent among those innocent victims.

[Guthur]

I did not say it was incorrect. I said it was not appropriate to single out one single group of a disparate grouping of victims. Why single out anyone, what purpose does that serve?

There is no definitive evidence about the exact number of inmates killed, and therefore there will be no definitive evidence about the proportional make up. Many records were destroyed and what has survived is from many second hand sources.

Therefore the figures seem to vary widely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration...

But I am not writing for Washington Post and so my comments will not be widely read. So why do you ask for sources from me but not this article.

[tokenadult]

Because there are already are sources that show that the article statement was just fine, and because I was quite astonished that you would object to that statement on the grounds you mentioned.

[ajuc]

Compare to "where thousands of white people were killed" to see why some people may have issue with that. Also technicaly true.