Can anyone tell me why the only holocost we hear about is the israel (jews) one?

Question

I know there were others besides israel's and they were not the only ones in the camps or suffered and died

Answer 1

I can think of at least two good reasons why the Jewish Holocaust is famous:

* The measures.
There were about 800,000 victims to the Armenian Genocide; about 1,000,000 victims to the Rwandan Genocide; about 400,000 victims to the conflict of Darfur and over 11,000,000 victims to the Holocaust, 6,000,000 of them were Jews (more than 60% of the Jewish population of Poland).

* The intention and efficient.
The Nazis intended to eliminate the ethnic groups and races that were not part of the Nazi vision, and so they built outstanding facilities just for this cause. Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka and the rest of the extermination camps were, as shocking as it may sound, factories of death. Gas chambers, crematories, shooting pits, gas tracks…
The Nazis did everything they could to get the very last Jew in Europe. They sent boats to get a single Jewish man from a lonely island in Greece and kill him in Treblinka less than a day since he got to Poland.

If it is the only genocide you heard of, than you've got some problems dude.

Answer 2

Well, the standard number is about 6 million Jews died and 4 million others, including, but not limited to, the Polish, homosexuals, atheists, political dissidents, the disabled. I'm really not sure why people only seem to remember the Holocaust for the Jewish victims, but I suppose ending the Jewish race was Hitler's intent, and the other victims were an added "bonus", and so thus not focused upon in the history books.

Answer 3

The WWII holocaust. Was the killing of people Hitler considered inferior or were undesired in his 3rd Reich.
Homosexuals, Gipsies, Political Prisoners, Jews.
Maybe becouse there is alot of footage from the allies when they liberated the camps. In which jews were the majority in most cases.
The sistematic killing of people in the dead camps, that were created with the sole purpose of extermination was something never seen in history.There have been holocaust before,but the germans here the first to create this so called extermination camps.
If you are interested in other holocaust I suggest you look into
"Rape of Nanking"

Answer 4

I also find it fascinating why at least 25% ( = 2/8 million) of the holocaust victims are rarely mentioned in holocaust movies and documentaries.

My guess is that these filmmakers are just as bigoted as the Nazis towards the kind of folks who made up the 25%.

Answer 5

Wow, me and my friend were just talking about this at school today. I think our school systems focus way to heavily on the western world. The worst Holocaust happened in the Congo, and the main reason I know that is because I've taken history classes that focus on other cultures. I really don't know why schools focus on just the Holocaust that happened in Germany. It's really sad that you only hear everyone's story if you make it a point to do research about other cultures.

Answer 6

The greatest number of victims were Jewish. Freemasons were also thrown into the camps, as were Gypsies, Evangelical Christians, Blacks, and those who opposed Hitler.

Answer 7

You haven't heard of any other genocides? are you serious?....Rwanda, Sudan, the Balkans, pogroms in USSR, Pol Pot in Cambodia, the Tutsis, the Armenian genocide, E T C.....

...and this was just in the last century