how is the holocaust compare to Stalin's famine and the Irish Potato famine?

Answer 1

The Holocaust was the active killing of people whereas a famine is a natural caused lack of food due to many different reasons such as drought, pests, plagues, etc. Although famines can be induced by the operations of humans and can be made worse by action or inaction

Answer 2

All three were terrible and utterly preventable.

To the gentleman above me: You should read a bit about An Gorta Mor (the Potato Famine). Ireland was exporting food atthe time. The Brits were systematically using starvation as a weapon with which to weed out the native Irish population.

Answer 3

Comparisions and analogies can be very dangerous- each should stand on it's own and cannot be evaluated/compared as a means of scaling widespread human tragedy and murder from least-to-worst.