Why do people of the Jewish faith only talk about the 6 million Jews Hilter killed in his holocaust?

Question

I'm married to a woman who was born in Israel and she told me along time ago, she was NEVER taught in her Jewish faith schools, that Hilter killed 6 million non-jews. She was only taught that Hilter only killed jews. She was shocked to hear about the 'non-jews' of equal number that Hilter also killed. Why does it seem that people of the jewish faith have little regard for the 6 million non-jewish people who were killed by Hitler?

please stop saying Jewish is a race and a religion. It's not true. So says my wife. And she even says the '6' million figure is kinda overblown.

Answer 1

They don't count as the Jewish are allegedly >THE< chosen people?

Answer 2

Although Hitler was pretty much an equal-opportunity destroyer, he did have a deep and personal emnity for those of a Jewish background. Whether this was because of their religious beliefs or financial acumen or affluence in a society where some Germans were abysmally poor, it is difficult to say.

Because Jews do have a long written history of persecution, and because the world (and history) does have a habit of belatedly trying to right such historical wrongs, the deep inhuman suffering they endured did become a focal point, and justifiably so. That does not diminish the pain and suffering of the other races and religions who perished under equally brutal treatment, but it takes history awhile for the accumulated persecutions and rectifications of a group to be recognized.

While not to be trite, an anlogy can be made of sports teams. Many teams have long histories of losing, but the fans of each team only notice their own team's history, not so much the history of others. Just as much as you will root for your own team the strongest, and remember their losses the clearest, so too will a fan of another team root for their's the deepest, and remember their losses the strongest. It is not something unnatural or unexpected.

Answer 3

The same reason the Irish focus more on the potato famine, and Americans know more about the American civil war. People know what is closest to them culturally. And I heard only five million other, six million Jewish. We do not have 'little regard'. We do, perhaps, have little awareness, but do you know anything, and I mean anything, about the Armenian genocide? Don't point too many fingers. As a Jew I know and was taught about the others killed in a Jewish school.

Answer 4

there is a book called Persecution Of The Gypsies by The Nazis that describes the policy of mass murder of gypsies by the Nazis.while the author classify's it as genocide the author states it should be called that not termed a Holocaust for gypsies as 150,000 were killed not millions like the jews. the author states jews were main targets and more were killed so the gypsies don't count as their were not as many to kill essentially was the statement. crass put that was it . thousands of gypsies were killed not millions. still the author thought this should be included in the Holocaust as an addition to it . musn't forget the foreign slaves imported to Germany either. this and other mass murder might have been added in histories but as the main intent of the Nazis was on wiping out the jews this was the main focus.

Answer 5

Khnopff71 has given a nice answer. I don't know where your wife gets the idea that the figure of 6 million is "kinda overblown". You can start at the Names Database at the Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem; I've put a link below. They already have 3 million names catalogued, all by hand, with millions and millions to go.

Remember, absence of proof is not proof of absence--a basic scientific principle.

[edit] The US Holocaust Museum puts the figure at between 5.1 and 6 million (link below). Are you trying to split hairs as to whether 5 or 6 million were slaughtered???

Answer 6

In my sunday school class at my synogauge (jewish) we were taught all about the Halocaust. We learned right away about ALL the people who were prejudiced against, and ALL the people he killed. It may have been taught earlier in the form of only stressing the jewish impact, but now things have changed. We learn the same thing in our social studies curriculum. I, being a young jew, was always informed about its impact on different people. And the 6 million thing isnt a strech. The majority of people killed were jews.

Answer 7

They would seem to be one of the most secular tribes around.
I personally think that by believing they are the chosen ones they believe gentiles are considered as a inferior race.
Look at the Palestinian situation, would you not think that having once had a nation try to wipe them out that it would make them more tolerant and understanding. Yet there behavior, thou not equal to the Nazis isn't very different.
The problem is we brainwash our children with our own beliefs and therefore continue to make the same mistakes over and over again.
Change only happens when honesty is involved, and to be honest needs you to admit that you could be wrong something that neither side will do.

Answer 8

i do no longer understand approximately 6 million (like the suitable type) yet i'm confident you may seem up start and dying information. Wait, does Germany have those? (and that i'm no longer bashing, I do in basic terms no longer understand if Germany keeps them or no longer. It is clever that they might, yet i are transforming into in issue in the previous for assuming) P.S. the reason why human beings think of you're bashing is in view which you have white power on your call, and that makes you seem neo-nazi-ish. Edit: i've got performed a sprint analyze and it is what i got here across. apparently a museum in Warsaw estimates it grew to become into relatively 2.5 million, the 6 million type comes from the Nazis' very own estimate of the type of ecu Jews grew to become into 11 million, and sixty % of 11 million is 6.6 million. it is reasonably on the factor of the easily discern. (relatively, 40 % grew to become right into a severe overestimate of the survival fee of Jews who have been captured, yet there have been many Jews who escaped.) additionally, like hundreds of former Nazis say-sure we did this. (There are courtroom transcripts of their confessions). then you extremely've information like those: February 14, 1942: The Führer as quickly as returned expressed his determination to freshen up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There could be no squeamish sentimentalism approximately it. The Jews have deserved the disaster that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will pass hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We could hasten this technique with chilly ruthlessness. March 27, 1942: The technique is a pretty barbaric one and to no longer be defined here greater actually. no longer lots will stay of the Jews. on the entire it extremely is asserted that approximately 60 in line with cent of them will could be liquidated while basically 40 in line with cent could be used for compelled hard artwork. The camp survivors all say pretty lots a similar factor, you are not getting that for the period of a great team of human beings till they experienced a similar factor. extremely some say that folk have been taken to a place and in no way seen returned. Now in the event that they're killed by utilizing be starved, overworked, or gassed, it continues to be up for debate. however the actuality continues to be that they died as a consequence of the Holocaust (whether it grew to become into receiving much less food, receiving undesirable scientific care, being shot, or being gassed they have been nonetheless killed as an prompt consequence of the Holocaust.)

Answer 9

It is a race as well as a religion. It may seem to stand out to you moreso because your spouse is Jewish. It would be the same as if you were married to an African(slavery), a Mexican, or a native Indian.

Answer 10

Jehovah's Witnesses were also heavily persecuted by the Nazis.

The BIG DIFFERENCE Between Jews and JW's was that if you were a Jew you were Pretty much Toast; Whereas if you were one on Jehovah's CHRISTIAN Witnesses; You were Given the OPPORTUNITY to Gain Freedom SIMPLY BY signing a SIMPLE DOCUMENT denouncing your Faith. ! ! !

Even so; MOST of Jehovah's Witnesses STILL REMAINED Loyal to God by NOT Signing this Document that would allowed them to be IMMEDIATELY Set Free

Answer 11

3 million Polish Christians were killed. No one talks about them.

along with many Atheists, Gypsies and Homosexuals