We all know that somewhere between five and six million Jews were murdered during the Nazi holocaust. None of those Jews were killed because they were involved in black market or resistance activity. None of them were killed because they were associated with the communists or "Bolshevism" in any way. Even though millions of Jews lived in the old Pale of Settlement and the front lines between the German and Russian armies moved through that territory twice during the war, none of the Jews living there were among the innocent civilians who got caught in the crossfire. Jews weren't rounded up and sent concentration camps because they were considered enemies of the state. They were rounded up and murdered because they were Jews. Jewish soldiers serving in the military who were killed in action are usually considered military casualties--not holocaust victims. But all other Jewish deaths are holocaust deaths. The war had nothing to do with those deaths. It sounds stupid but that's the holocaust for ya.
We have seen many weird arguments and posts in the Holocaust threads. But this one takes the cake. In it, Dogzilla offers up a novel defense of the Nazis against the charge of genocide: that is, genocide, albeit offered up sarcastically.
In the UN's 1948 Genocide Convention, genocide is defined as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
So, indeed, the Third Reich attempted to destroy Europe's Jewish population - by means of killing, causing bodily and mental harm, creating conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction, imposing measures to prevent Jewish births - because the National Socialists were under the delusion that Jews as a group were associated with communists or "Bolshevism" and because the National Socialists irrationally considered Jews to be enemies of the Volk and Reich. And, of course, the intent to destroy a group of people because of their imagined threat to a nation or group is precisely genocidal. There is no defense against genocide that says the crime is excused because of delusional beliefs. In fact, from my reading, one of the necessary features of a genocidal movement is that the movement fear as an existential threat the group targeted for genocide. By repeating the National Socialist "rationale" for genocide, Dogzilla is not explaining a thing - only echoing a hollow, criminal ideology.
It is almost certain, of course, that European Jews were also killed for black market activity (in some cases, as is well known, the situation forced upon them by pauperization, ghettoization, etc.) and caught in the crossfire and done away with for many other causes. One reason Dogzilla will not engage in a serious discussion of specific examples of the murder of Jews is that such cases (Vilna, Warsaw, Riga, Kiev, and Lodz, for example) show, just as did our look into the Jaeger Report, the proportion of victims falling into various categories - and just how great was the preponderance of murders of Jews as imagined enemies of Germany, that is, as Jews.