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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
As an aside, I recently found out the other day that not only did the Nazi's kill 6 million jews, but 5 million+ Poles and Soviet POW's (among countless millions of other people guilty of other random things like homosexuality etc., but these numbers really hit me hard).
That is amazing to me. Not to sound shitty or anything, obviously it's terrible what happened to the Jews, but I just wish awareness of the others was talked about just as much.
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Serbs too, WWII was incredibly devastating and complex in the Balkans.
The awareness is there, within those groups of people; WWII is called the great patriotic war in Russia and the former USSR, and it focuses almost entirely on the massive loss of life there. The Roma Gypsies probably got the worst genocide pound for pound, and almost nobody knows about it.
The difference is that the Jews are widespread throughout the world, and was a major point in the UK and US narrative of the war.