So, the thousands of still living emaciated people, many of whom WERE Jews (the yellow Star of David on their clothing was a clue) who were at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were not victims of the Holocaust?
So the tens of thousand of bodies he helped bury, bodies of people who were starved to death at the camp, many of whom WERE Jews (again, the yellow Star of David on their clothing was a clue) who were at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were not victims of the Holocaust?
I don't know what your Uncle told you about burying tens of thousands of bodies with stars of david on their clothing. The photographs I have seen of the camp show corpses without any clothes at all. Many of those bodies appear emaciated and show signs of typhus. I don't recall seeing photographs of emaciated but alive prisoners wearing stars of david on their clothing.
These photographs mesh with the known history of the camp. According to the
Jewish Virtual Library, the camp served as a holding camp for Jews who were emigrating or being exchanged for German nationals held abroad. Conditions in the camp were generally good until the end of the war. That's when huge numbers of prisoners from all over Germany were brought to Belsen and a typhus epidemic broke out. Many Jews --including Anne Frank--died in the camp but most of people who died there at the end of the war weren't Jewish.
I'm sorry if this doesn't mesh with your family lore of the Uncle who saw the Holocaust first hand. Tens of thousands of dead bodies of people who died from typhus after starvation weakened their immune system isn't evidence of Germany's systematic plan to exterminate the Jews even if some of the those bodies were Jewish.
But why are Jews suddenly important anyway? You've been promoting the all-inclusive definition of the Holocaust where Jews were just one of the victim groups.
Disingenuous claptrap. I am sure my Uncle did not murder any prisoners
Looks like you are getting desperate now, resorting to insults and lies.
Tens of thousands of prisoners died after the British took over the camp. You're uncle might not have personally shot any prisoners but he bears the collective guilt of failure to stop what you call the Holocaust.
Remember, the Holocaust isn't just the murder of the Jews. It's also the complete disregard for Jewish funeral practices by cremating human remains and burying the bodies of Jews alongside the bodies of gentiles. There are the pictures and movies of thousands of bodies of people you say were Jewish being unceremoniously pushed into mass graves with bulldozers. Those were made after liberation. That's the British who were desecrating human remains.
Please explain to us all how acknowledging the suffering and the murdering of non-Jews in the Holocaust makes me "hostile to or prejudiced against Jews"
Because those non-Jews were not part of the Holocaust. The suffering and murder of non-Jews occurred parallel to the Holocaust. I'm not saying that gentile suffering wasn't real or that gentiles who were persecuted didn't feel pain. A Jew who is beaten to death because he is a member of a group that the Nazis have decided don't have a right to exist feels as much pain and is just as dead as a gentile who is beaten to death just because.
But the Jews were the only group of people who were intended to be exterminated down to the last man woman and child. This what makes the Holocaust unique.
No, you see, that is exactly what you said...
"Nothing your Uncle saw was the result of the Holocaust. .... He didn't see the dead bodies of anybody who had been gassed."
The specific murder weapon is not what makes the Holocaust the Holocaust. The gas chamber was responsible for more Jewish deaths than any other method of execution but roughly half of the deaths weren't from gassing.
I did not mean to imply that your Uncle had to see people who had been gassed to death. But you do know that none of the bodies he saw were those of people who has been killed in a gas chambers, don't you?
