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    Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
    No I think you misunderstand me. I'm saying that both were instances of ethnic cleansing. The scale of the Holocaust was larger, but both involved state sanctioned murder and concentration camps.

    Death is a punishment in the US, how would it be anything else in Nazi Germany?

    In any event, concentration camps were not the same as death camps - according to Jewish scholars anyway.
    Right. Not all camps were death camps. Many were just de-humanising work camps without the ovens or gas chambers.

    I don't believe that Haider was saying the Holocaust was somehow diminished because of the german purges after the war - I think he was saying that, although the holocaust was massively more devastating that the ethnic cleansing of germans, the murderous ethnic cleansing of Germans was de-humanising and unjustifiable itself.
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