oliveira8 said:
The Holocaust itself is genocide. It also didnt only happen to Jews alone. Black and Gypsys too were exterminatited by the Nazis.
Genocide was only considered crime after the Holocaust during the trials of Nuremberg and stands for "the extermination of racial and national groups".
In my original post, I believe I noted "dissidents of the Third Reicht" or something to that effect, which would encompass blacks and Egyptians. And I actually posted a definition of genocide as defined by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, did you not read the original post?
Kukul said:
"Holocaust" is a Jewish term heavily related to religion, genocide is genocide. Will it ever be that massive again? Sure, why not? We have nuclear bombs now, remember?
Goodbye is a heavily religious term. It was derived from the medieval saying "God be with you".
What's your point? Non-Jewish people still call the slaughter of eleven million people during Hitler's reign the Holocaust. It's a name, not a definition. Perhaps I should have rephrased it as "Could something along the scale of the Holocaust happen once again?"
A nuclear strike would not be defined as a genocide, because genocide is defined as the systematic killing of a racial, religious, or national group. A nuclear strike is indiscriminate, unless a group of people were forced into one area and then the bomb dropped.
Decoy Doctorpus said:
I'm not trying to pour oil on a fire here but a lot of people argue that eleven million is a vastly overestimated number.
Those aren't baseless estimates. They are based in fact. The Nazi's kept disturbingly tthourogh and accurate records. They recorded how many people were killed in what way, on what days, and how long the methods took.
They developed a science around this. Some of the records were destroyed, yes, but still.
