Post: #332

I don't doubt for a second that many nazis wanted to kill all jews. The question is if they did and if they did, to what extent was it an industrial organised and widely supported thing.

People kill people all the time. Tribal genocide of the Armenians, have not led to Turkey not being allowed to have a military or forced to accept a Kurdish state for example.

The Holocaust is elevated above such atrocities as the Nanking massacre and the Armenian genocide, because it is claimed to be the deliberate, widely supported, industrial genocide of a group of people. Some people going rogue in camps, even by gassing, would not be enough for it to have that status.

These things matter. The fact is that the Holocaust is the "original sin" of modern man. It is the almost literal replacement of Christian myth by a new "fall of man" myth, where the jews are elevated to a near divine position. This modern foundational myth acts just as strongly as Christianity did previously.