When it comes to WWII, why do most people forget that upwards of 60 million were killed?

Question

WWII was a mass murder of humanity. Upwards of 20 million Soviets were killed - 1 out 0f 10. Poles, 1 out of 6.

The Japanese run Holocaust killed many millions of Chinese. The Japanese even dropped biological bombs on helpless Chinese villagers.

Just as many non-Jews as Jews went to the German concentration camps. With no regret, Germans burned Catholics, Protestants, Athiests, Jews, homosexuals abd the infirm.

Yet when discussing WWII, it seems only the suffering of the Jews is discussed. Yes, they suffered unjustly and terribly but so did 54 million others.

Why are most of the victims of WWII are forgotten?

Answer 1

World War II was the darkest point of the 20th century. Don't forget Soviet atrocities like the Katyn Massacre atleast 14,000 Polish soldiers were executed by the Red Army in 1940.

Answer 2

Yes, yes. A lot of people died. It's all there if you want to look it up. In order to forget, you have to have learned it in the first place, since you're talking about a war most people living now never knew.

Blame socialized education. It's not the only bit of irrelevant history no one bothered to teach us. The Jews have been more vocal to keep the memory alive. I don't have a problem with that. Do you? Did you know most people in the South didn't own slaves before the start of the Civil War? Doesn't really matter now does it? Try moving on.

Answer 3

The people who forget all these dead lack education. I know about all the victims of World War II and the Holocaust.
However the Jews have indeed suffered more from it than any other group of people. 6 million out of the 11 million European Jews were killed, more than half of them. They were killed systematically with the goal of killing each and everyone of them. This wasn't done to the Russians or Poles, although millions of them were killed as well.
There was another people that the Nazis also tried to exterminate, that were the Romanies (Gypsies) and it is really not remembered enough what was done to them. It is estimated that about half a million of them were killed, but there are also higher estimates. It is estimated that about half to a quarter of their European population was killed. It's hard to say because there is not as much documentation about their communities like that of the Jews and it is therefore hard to say how many of them lived in Europe before World War II.

Answer 4

or.....possibly you're an ignorant bastard. Germans rounded up each and every Jew they chanced on, and not in basic terms in Germany. Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, POLAND! a majority of those international locations had a number of cities that had particularly great Jewish populations. so some distance as cremations pass, the Germans had nicely over 20 concentration Camps with crematoriums in them, yet that became into no longer how each and all of the Jews have been killed. They have been shot, starved, stabbed, gassed, and poisoned besides as being burned alive in the crematoriums! The mass graves human beings helped dig or observed that had smoke coming from them became into because of the fact they whorded each and all of the bodies, fulled burned or no longer, and tossed them in. The bosies additionally could have been positioned on long wood altars like the classic Greeks and Romans did with their ineffective, then the altars or pyre's are set ablaze and the physique is burned. This does take longer than 30 minutes, yet Jews weren't allowed watches or clocks, so it became into the survivor's perfect guess at how long it took. on a similar time as I agree that lots of the info from the pains looks somewhat some distance-fetched, i'm no longer able to come out and say that any of this is faux because of the fact i did no longer stay in the time of the time and became into no longer there. So this is fairly basic to settle for the form of 6 million Jews being killed...in case you're taking your head out of your *** and supply up being an ignorant bastard and a skinhead.

Answer 5

You are totally correct except that the Nazis didn't kill "just as many non-Jews" as Jews. Six million Jews alone were sent off to the camps, tortured, and murdered whereas Catholics, Protestants, especially Jehovah Witnesses (Almost all 600 of them in Nazi occupied territories and Germany itself were killed), atheists, homosexuals, gypsies, and political prisoners make up another 6 million. Many more were casualties of war and forced labor. The difference between all of those and the Jews was that the Jews in the millions were singled out among all others to be exterminated. Their number vastly out number other groups in their targeted loss.

Answer 6

Americans, like most of the rest of the world are now people. If it did not happen NOW what difference does it make? Humans as a people do not learn from history. We continue to make the same mistakes over and over. Same reason we try to forget in Vietnam the Teachers and politicians (or informal village elders) were all killed. But all you hear about is fighting the Commies.

Iraq - Sunni killing Kurds, Kurds killing Shia, Shia killing Kurd, on and on and on. Oh yeah the Bath party killing them all.

Sometimes war is not just for OIL.

Answer 7

Because Americans are forgetful!! Americans can barely remember the 911 attacks! All we seem to care about are whether or not Brad and Jen are friends again, why Britney Spears shaved her head, and who will get custody of Anna Nicole's child. Then in 6 months people will have all but forgotten about that too.

Answer 8

I still have to remind my college educated wife every year why June 6th is significant.

Believe it or not I have even known people who didn't know who won the American Civil War.

We are a nation of dummies...so it should be no surprise that people forget the tragedies of the past. Knowledge is power....too many people have chosen to forfeit such power.

Answer 9

Probably because termination of the Jews was the Germans top priority.

Answer 10

It was the nature of the act that invokes recognition. Genocide had never been attempted before that (as far as I know). You are correct though. We should remember other victims of the axis powers as well.