To be fair, I don’t think we should ignore the other atrocities or the non-Jewish victims of nazi war crimes (which I know you’re not suggesting here), because they were brutalized and murdered as well. We certainly shouldn’t ONLY talk about the Holocaust when we discuss nazi Germany.
I do think it’s important to remember the specific goal of the final solution, though when we discuss the other victims of nazi violence. A regime based on brutally cleansing the body politics will quickly move onto other groups once the primary group has been eliminated. That old poem holds true… first they came for the communist, etc.
It’s so fucking hard to thread that needle of historical specificity and inclusion, I think. And it’s sickening that the historical realities and current political realities make us do so.
