Holocaust Was Committed in the Genocide Age

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the victims of the Holocaust (Shoah), which resulted in the serial mass murder of ultimately 4 million Jews on territories under direct or indirect German control in 1941-45.

It was designated as such by United Nations General Assembly resolution following a special session convened to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the “official” end of the Holocaust.

I have a major problem with this Day… two problems, actually. First, January 27 was chosen because at that date Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

It was a bad choice for many reasons. First, roughly one out of four Holocaust victims was killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau (so what about the other 3/4?). Second, by that time the Holocaust was long over (it ended in October 1944).

And, finally, the “liberators” proceeded to rape and murder Jewish women who somehow managed to survive in that genuine Hell (as the Reds did pretty much everywhere – in many places there were even worse than the Germans).

A far better remembrance date would be January 20th – the date of the infamous Wannsee Conference. Which covered the whole Final Solution – not just one extermination camp (killing center).

But there is a farm far bigger problem with that date (and with the whole “Holocaust education”): it implicitly assumes that there was only one genocide (democide) in XX century; the only victims were Jews and the only perpetrators were Germans. Which is a blatant lie.

In reality, the previous century was a genuine “genocide age” as genocide and democide (serial mass murder of representative of a certain social group suck as kulaks in the Soviet Union) was considered an acceptable political tool not only in Nazi Germany – but in several other nations as well.

Genocide committed by Japanese during World War II killed six million (50% more than the Shoah); Turks killed over a million of Armenians; post-war ethnic cleansings killed 2 million of Germans; Holodomor in Ukraine claimed over a million victims… the list goes on, and on, and on… Hence, there should be Genocide Remembrance Day – not just Holocaust. Otherwise, it is an insult to the memory of the victims of all other genocides and democides – and a clear statement that only Jewish lives matter.