American Holocaust

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34. The planned depopulation of land is a standard feature of colonialism

It is often, though not always, done in a manner that allows for moral rationalization.

(If someone drew up a chart showing that under Policy "X" 10 million people he wanted out of the way would starve to death it works out much the same as putting that same 10 million in gas chambers, though the indirect agency gives it a different feel.)

I think the special of horror of Hitler is, to us, the modernity and unapologetic and bureaucratic quality of it. Very first world.

Not that long before the holocaust King Leopold of Belgium was doing things in the Congo that shock the conscience as much as the holocaust, but it was against a third world population and thousands of miles from Belgium.

Here is a question I don't know the answer to -- what proportion of deaths in German camps were starvation and disease, versus poison gas and bullets? Do we distinguish those deaths as a separate category?