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In reply to the discussion: It genuinely looks like a nuclear weapon hit it. [View all]thucythucy
(9,021 posts)during the Nigerian civil war in the 1960s. And several million dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a series of wars that continue to this day.
Then too, there was the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, the rape camps, and the massacres at Vukovar and Srebrenica.
And to say what's happening in Gaza today, as awful as it is, is "worse than the Nazis" is so out of scale I'm not sure if I should take it seriously,
Just to recap, as if this is needed: the Nazis, through their genocides of Jews, Romani, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+. along with their wars of aggression against Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Soviet Union--and their bombing campaigns against Great Britain and Malta--were responsible for the deaths of something like twenty million people, if not more. Bear in mind too that these wars of aggression were entirely unprovoked--Germany was never at risk of being attacked by any of the nations it attacked, occupied, and plundered. And that even when their war was obviously lost, the leading Nazis had no problem sacrificing hundreds of thousands of their own people in order to stay in power for a few extra months, all the while doing everything they could to destroy what little was left undamaged in central Europe, and to slaughter anyone in the concentration or slave labor camps who had thus far managed to survive.
I should add that besides Aushwitz and the other death camps, where millions were murdered, they carried out massacres of civilians all across Europe. In Belorus they used flame throwers to incinerate random villagers they forced into barns or churches.
I don't mind the occasional hyperbole, but the Nazis stand out as among the most, if not the most, depraved people on earth, certainly within living memory. It's hard for me to imagine anything "worse than the Nazis."