Israel Forced To Apologise To Japan Over Offensive Hiroshima Comments

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24. Mass murder is mass murder.

Were the Chinese any less dead because their deaths were less planned? I wouldn't particularly care if the person exterminating me and my entire family was doing it by the book or "only" doing it because they were part of an invading army. "It was kind of an informal thing" isn't at all a good excuse. And if you're going to lecture me about "knowing" the Holocaust, shouldn't you know that there is plenty of reputable historical scholarship of the "functionalist" school (not crazy denialist) arguing that it had something of a spontaneous character, and was heavily a product of poorly planned military aggression and efforts to handle millions of supposedly "hostile" citizens the Germans found themselves holding after they barged into Eastern Europe?