How many other Holocausts have occurred and why are they not remembered?

The total extermination of the Jews is a religious obligation incumbent on all Muslims. See links under 'Jews - extermination a religious duty' at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.ht...

jimmysemens again makes a false claim. He claims that the Jews were not war with Germany, but this is not entirely accurate.

jimmysemens needs to clarify which Jews when he says "the Jews." "The Jews" as in the average working Jew, some of which I'm sure were proud Germans, were not at war with the German people, but "the Jews" meaning the wealthy Jews, the arisoicratic, the banking, the industrialist and the Zionist Jews were defintely at war with the German people.

I will use the very words of Samuel Untermeyer, who has largely been written out of mainstream Holocaust and WW2 history:

"What we are proposing and have already gone far toward doing, is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends."

According to Wiki:

Untermyer advocated the Zionist liberation movement and was President of the Keren Hayesod, the agency through which the movement was then and still is conducted in America[8].

Untermyer publicly called for the political destruction of Germany in 1933. As quoted in the New York Times on Aug. 07, 1933, Untermyer exclaimed: "The Jews of the world now declare a Holy War against Germany. We are now engaged in a sacred conflict against the Germans. And we are going to starve them into surrender. We are going to use a world-wide boycott against them, that will destroy them because they are dependent upon their export business."

But here is a more accurate account of what happened:

Few people know the facts about the singular event that helped spark what ultimately became known as World War II - the international Jewish declaration of war on Germany shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power and well before any official German government sanctions or reprisals against Jews were carried out. The March 24, 1933 issue of The Daily Express of London (shown above) described how Jewish leaders, in combination with powerful international Jewish financial interests, had launched a boycott of Germany for the express purpose of crippling her already precarious economy in the hope of bringing down the new Hitler regime. It was only then that Germany struck back in response.

Prominent New York attorney Samuel Untermyer (above right) was one of the leading agitators in the war against Germany, describing the Jewish campaign as nothing less than a "holy war."

The white man just can't catch a break in these times. As O'brian said "you know who is responsible for Astro Turf, THE JEWS!

There is too much false and careless ( and malicious) equivalence going down here. Let's get one thing absolutely clear here. The jews were not at war with the nazis. They were not combatants actively involved in a conflict with the German people. In all the other cases cited here, the victims of genocide were involved in a civil war or conflict with the dominating party. The armenians were fighting the Turks, the Native American Indians were fighting the Europeans and indeed each other, the Tutsis were fighting the Hutus in a civil war, the Cambodian debacle was a civil war and a political conflict. And so on. The Jews were not at war with the Nazis and were no threat at all. There was no provocation.

Yes Andrew jackson was the first out of control, land grabbing monster war monger presidents who would violate the constitution and forcibly annex Mexican lands. He was the father and creator of the trail of tears. He had no compassion for the pain and misery he imposed on the native American. He moved settlers into Texas only to obtain the votes for forming a republic and annexing. And just like Alexander Hamilton who gave away the American banking system and gave it to the Lords of money. Corrupt government is not a newborn child it has aged into a vicious monster. It is quite grown up and an independent entity in its own right. Hence our Washington owes us nothing, rather it is we who owe the government no matter how deep the blood has flowed over the two centuries. Many of us have lavished in satin ignorance while young kids are constantly called upon to sacrifice and give their lives and virginity for a bloody death at the hands of profiteers. During WWII Radio Moscow used the term War Monger often to refer to the USA. We of course had no idea that the OSS had become the CIA and it was involved in the nasty clandestine ways of infamy. Yes Stalin was a nasty monster too. But who was the better or the worst?

When someone actually tries to kill you - there is something in the comprehension of one who would be so lacking in base respect, respect for themselves and respect for life, - that it really pisses you off.

We have a vast lake of humanity - and it comes to the quality of society where more have a comprehension of the beauty of life and have the deeply inherent respect and self-respect for life.

Just remember why and how a Holocaust can occur. A nation and its political leaders determine that a state of war must exist to feed their economy. So they create a propaganda program creating a reason for hating some one or some group and from there the citizens with the help from the propaganda department take over and it becomes Mob rule and life is worthless during these time. but always it is governments and hunger for power and money that creates the conditions. We here in America have lived through Black holocausts, perhaps not in the vast numbers but a holocaust just the same. And the Civil war was a Holocaust. Look at the young kids who died for their country. The North Hated the South and the South hated the North and this hatred persisted long into the twentieth Century. But it is always governments that dream up wars and it is the Military who carry's the cause of the slaughter. Just recently and even now Zbigniew Brzezinski has proposed that the USA shall be the hegemon or leader in the Eurasian nations halfway aroung the world with Russia on one side and China on the other. Now We are told that Islam is a religion of peace whether to look favorable in the eyes of the Eurasian natives or not the facts are quite well known. This is asking for a real bloody war and you can see how easy it is to create a holocaust today. Tom provoke either Russia or China in this age where all have nuclear weapons is tantamount to suicide and Holocausts. The only answer is to reign in the politics at any expense. Obama has promised to sell a bunch of Missiles to Taiwan and already this is a provocation in the strictest means.

Christians do not read the old testament where God declares he is a GOD of War. They read the NewTestament that way they can get away with claiming to be a born again Christians thats when people are caught with their hands in the cookie jar. To atone for their sin they become born again Christians and find that they are among friends. Then again the Televangelist Empires are living under the New Testament bubblle and begging for money as per the New Testament. That is their justification for demanding cash for forgiving sins. Reminds me of German history of the early German Empire where Priests were allowed to go from town to town and forgive sins for cash. Of course the fear of heaven and hell was more intense then too. The old testament details the countries where the Jews had tried to colonize and failed. Throughout the history of the Israelites, The Jews were not mistreated because they were Jews. They were mistreated then and now because of the religion of Zion, hence they were known and hated as Zionists. THis too is to be understood because Zionism is like Islam, Anyone who is not a zionist is a heathen as compared to an infidel. And anyone who is not a zionist is to be stoned to death and this to as opposed to ISlam. Jews can only marry Jews and Moslems can only marry moslems. To be an anti-semite is only to be anti-Zionist, because a Jew is an ordinary person as you and I. It is the Zionist who deserves the hate of the world not the Jew. But in the Muslem community there are very few if any non-Islamic population since they would be executed as per Sharia. It must be hell to live in communities where religious police can arrest you or just execute you and it is justified and again under Zionism, I do not know what the consequences of just being a non-Zionist Israelite is or just a plain jew if that is possible. The greatest honor we could bestow on the victims of these horrors is to Isolate those who want to practice religion and make sure they can not continue to poison the human minds with this trash.

The Holocaust was the only instance in history when the extermination of a people, an act of genocide, was official government policy. That makes it unique.

The unfortunate reality about the Holocuast is that people remember it because a whole lot of movies and tv specials have been done about it.

Because when it comes right down to it, most people just don't give a shit about mass murder. I hate to quote Stalin, but he was right. "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

Or even if you do give a shit, what can you do? Join a national military or the U.N. Peacekeepers and pray that they'll intervene so you can get sent in somewhere to save lives? Even then, as you tackle one genocide another goes unanswered. Plus public support always fractures on the issue and then your own soldiers commit similar atrocities.

There's something about the human brain that just cannot fathom that much death. I myself have tried to put in perspective and it's difficult. But here's a good way to think about. In a genocide the size of the Nazi holocaust, pick the nearest big city county close to you. Now imagine that EVERYONE, literally every man, woman and child, was dead. Literally, for miles and miles just dead bodies everywhere in the streets and that should start to give you some idea of the horror that is genocide.

a big part of the old testament deals with genocide done by the isrealites.

A whole bunch and because nobody wrote it down. Other wise we would have a record of it. Well thas my guess. Good as any other.

I think it must be remembered not only because it happened but because it was so calculated, so systematic that it worked like a set of well greased gears....being a nurse I always questioned how doctors trained and having taken the oath; to first do no harm... could do the atrocities they committed on live unanesticized humans.
I remember the Russians, Stalin to be exact killing a greater number of people after WWII (than Hebrews in WWII).
And not to long ago 'no one' seemed to care about the Tutus/Hutus genocidal slaughtering.

Thats a very good question. There have been many right here in the USA. The Barbarians of Washington wiped out many Indian Tribes in the building of Imperial States of America. Count the treaties that were broken and you can count some of the Genocides. But the greatest was "The trail of Tears". Can any civilized person look at the US Government records over the years and have respect for what we have been taught is the greatest country in the world. Lets set the record straight.There is a difference between the Country and the land and the Government because once elected to office the Politicians immediately are sheltered in their own Empire and they become above the people and not public servants. So if we call the constitution the country, then yes we have the greatest country but immediately after being sworn to uphold the constitution the politiicians start finding loopholes and reasons to break it. When considering all of these years that politicians have spent writing and passing laws and amending the bill of rights the country has lost much of its glamour and beauty.As a student in the 1930's we never read about such stories as the trail of tears or the battle of wounded knee. We did however read bout Custers raid and of course the Indians were the villans. When we travel and see the natural wonders of the USA we should ask ourselves if we had had a sane intelligent government during the movement west could we not had made treaties and kept those treaties, after all we were intruders and we were the offensive movement west and we left a trail of blood at every mile. Move to the great Ciivil War. Was it necessary to declare war against our own people? What was the real reason for the civil War? Was it supposed to be a war of profit? If so Honest Abe screwed the banks but it still cost a nation in blood and bodies. Was it necessary or was it just to prove that nobody leaves the Union? What ever it was it was still a travesty of justice. Yes the American Indian could have become a partner but they were labeled as SAVAGES by all and for this reason the killings escalated to near perfect ethnic cleansing and the Government did nothing to protect the Native American.

''....because only a shitty human being or an anti-semite would think along those lines.''

This site is crawling with racist antisemitic bigots like those on this thread. Occasionally they crawl out of the sewer and infest cyberspace with their hatred. And yes you're right...only a shitty human being does think along the lines expressed here.

Voted down and flagged for hate speech.

Good question. If I were the writer of this post, I would take up some activism addressing your justified concern about properly remembering the genocides of people of other nations. Write letters, send proposals, try to raise money to start remembrance days or museums in honor of the other Holocausts that must be remembered equally in our hearts.

A little advice, though, to the writer of the article above - when you do participate in said activism, since your primary concern is the remembrance of the others who died in horrible genocides, I would be careful to steer clear of the wording used in this post. If someone didn't know better, they might think the person who wrote this post was implying that the only people who feel the need to remember the Third Reich’s horrific actions during WWI are Jews who live in Israel, or even surreptitiously blaming the Jews who live in Israel for the fact that there is a Holocaust Remembrance day. I know that I must be mistaken about this, though - because only a shitty human being or an anti-semite would think along those lines.

When discussing the topic of Israel in the future.... and attempting to connect it to the fact that we choose to have a Holocaust remembrance day in America, I hope the writer of this article is able to remember that MOST HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR FAMILIES ARE AMERICAN - if you ignore that fact, as the writer of this post did (ie – ”...we are almost forcibly reminded…” - who is "WE" in this scenario?) you might just get "misconstrued" as Anti-Semitic, or even Anti-American.

It does take a special breed of prejudice, however, to look at ALL Jews as “foreigners” – even the ones who have lived next door for generations. I have had met a few people who think this way.... it's very depressing to be reminded that some people really ARE that ignorant.

History is written by the victor.

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War and the Great War of Africa, began in August 1998

Congo genocide : 10 million dead and counting

For the sake of humanity and for future generations, we have to remember that there were other genocides that could've been prevented if everyone just got along. We can't just sit another and pretend that the holocaust was the only tragedy to have struck mankind. For the sake for all the innocent people who were murdered because of their ethicity, we have to educate and remember.

it is because the nazi regime had plans for world domination and came the closest to seeing it through in what we consider a modern time .they also had very specific plans to genocide and the will to carry it out .they were not just killing and taking land with out purpose

Great article Maasanova!!

We've been actively doing nothing with many of the African genocides.
We didn't go into the Sudan - because it would roll the boat with the Chinese interests - What's up with that?

Actually, even in World War II, the Jews weren't the main victims. They were 50% of the mass genocides and the main target of Nazi extermination. But probably well over 20 million Russians died in that war, for some reason they aren't mentioned as often.

Hitler even outright said that no one cared about the Armenians so who would care about his genocide against the Jews? Like usual, he was wrong, but he was right about all of his other targets. Slavs and other Eastern Europeans, homosexuals, communists, political dissidents, intellectuals, no one remembers them.

And even through all of the horrors of the holocaust against the Jews, how could it compare to what happened in Sudan (women are frequently raped with knives) or in Cambodia? (the prisons were unbelievably awful)

I don't wish to belittle what happened to the Jews, it was one of the worst and fiercest crimes in history. But isn't it interesting that all of these other genocides, most of which are non-white, don't seem to phase people as much?

1.5 million dead Iraqi civilians at the hands of the U.S. military.

Great post Mass

I think it may be due to The diary of Anne Frank being of of the most widely read books still being published, still victims of these other tragedys deserve to be honored and remembered as well.