Iranian President scuffles with Larry King over Holocaust and plight of Palestinians. Part 5 of 5.

Use of the term Holocaust for Jewish and non-Jewish victims.

While the terms "Shoah" and "Final Solution" always refer to the fate of the Jews during the Nazi rule, the term "Holocaust" is sometimes used in a wider sense to describe other genocides of the Nazi and other regimes.
Scholars are divided on whether the term Holocaust should be applied to all victims of the Nazi mass murder campaign, with some using it synonymously with "Shoah" or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question", and others including the killing of Romani peoples, Slavs, homosexual men, the disabled, and political opponents.
Sometimes, the term "Holocaust" is used to describe events that have no connection with Europe or World War II. According to David Stannard, the "American Holocaust" involved killing of an estimated 50--100 million aboriginal people, and continues on a smaller scale throughout the Americas. The "Rwandan Holocaust" refers to the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The "Cambodian Holocaust" comprises the mass killings by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Then there is the prospect of "Nuclear Armageddon", also known as "Nuclear Holocaust".

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World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany.
Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including Romani, people with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents.

The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Romani were confined in overcrowded ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were systematically killed in gas chambers.


Non Jewish victims
Slavs
One of Hitler's ambitions at the start of the war was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all Slavs from their native lands so as to make living space for German settlers. This plan of genocide was to be carried into effect gradually over a period of 25--30 years.


Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state".

World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes are commonly estimated in excess of 20,000,000, both civilians and military, although the statistics vary to a great extent. Most of the casualties occurred from 22 June 1941, after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR.
The Red Army took much higher casualties than any other military force during World War II. The genocidal death toll in USSR attributed to several factors, including brutal mistreatment of POWs and captured partisans, multiple atrocities by the Germans against the civilian population, the wholesale use of weaponry on the battlefield against huge masses of infantry. The extensive fighting destroyed agricultural land, infrastructure, and whole towns, leaving much of the population homeless and without food.

The political left
German communists, socialists and trade unionists were among the earliest domestic opponents of Nazism and were also among the first to be sent to concentration camps. Hitler claimed that communism was a Jewish ideology which the Nazis termed "Judeo-Bolshevism". Fear of communist agitation was used as justification for the Enabling Act of 1933, the law which gave Hitler his original dictatorial powers. The first concentration camp was built at Dachau, in March 1933, to imprison German communists, socialists, trade unionists and others opposed to the Nazis. Communists, social democrats and other political prisoners were forced to wear a red triangle.
Hitler and the Nazis also hated German leftists because of their resistance to the party's racism. Many leaders of German leftist groups were Jews.. Hitler already referred to Marxism and "Bolshevism" as a means of "the international Jew" to undermine "racial purity" and survival of the Nordics or Aryans, as well to stir up socioeconomic class tension and labor unions against the government or state-owned businesses.
Whenever the Nazis occupied a new territory, members of communist, socialist, or anarchist groups were normally to be the first persons detained or executed.

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[Onetazien]

Larry King the Zionist tool kept trying to corner him but the President smashed every question.

[ProtectSouthOssetia]

@Onetazien

I think Larry Kingis very brave to let us hear other side.

I respect him a lot and will miss him.

[Timsar81]

Larry King got owned....

[setus1699]

man nnn this irani guy is smarttttttt

[saleemkhan77]

Larry king got ripped apart ;))

[416905rep]

larry king is a sham...... whenever he gets pressed with REAL questions he always goes to break... he knows US is commiting realll war crimes

[MrAlmuazzin]

Down with Jewish Zionism

Long live Palestine

[Mehedidhk]

Larry King is the name of a PhD holder in Zionism, Hypocrisy and Open Injustice!!!!

[whiteguy212006]

Larry King aka Skeletor! Lol is just another zionist that claims of human rights blabber and hypocrisy, on behalf of the puppet masters. If people want to lay it all on the table, then finally do so.

[Timsar81]

@greenberet069 u buying or selling?

[greenberet069]

@Timsar81 Got crack? 

[doukkali125]

@gildog your forgot my friend that Christians are against the state of Israel, most Palestinian "terrorists" were in fact Christians. The one who killed Robert Kennedy whose name is Sarhan Bishara Sarhan was a genuine Palestinian Christians the same race and faith as Pastor Benny Hinn.But your Zionist-run media have always told you he was a Muslim lol. Westerners have turned christianity into Zionism.