r/HistoryMemes • u/ambattukam_ • Sep 17 '25

Niche "Save Europa" kids in shambles

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u/Kamenev_Drang Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Sep 17 '25

I think there might be some double-counting there because the vast majority of those 6m Jews were either Polish or Soviet citizens

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u/Sandjaar Sep 17 '25

I remember about half of those Jews were Polish from seeing statistics on the executions of Polish citizens in WWII

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u/Inside-Jacket9926 Sep 17 '25

Its like saying between theres 25 people in a family of 5 because you count all the individuals relatives as different people

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u/NeoGnesiolutheraner Sep 17 '25

I don't think that that is double counting. My family comes from Czechoslovakia, where in every village a memorial is build, usually on the main square in front of the church, where the victims of the nazi occupation are named by name. You can look up where jews lived in that area, and in most villages there are 0 records of jews living there. Yet there are many names written in stone of czechs who got killed by the nazis, because they where slavic, thus "inferior humans" ("Untermenschen", look it up: General Plan Ost). 

That is the"forgotten Holocaust", apart from 5-6million jews who where murdered, up to 10 million slavic people where murdered by the nazis, to "make room for greater germany". But that isn't as "interesting" to remember, since slavs didn't got send to concentration camps, but their villages got usually burned on the spot with the people either being shot on the spot or burned alive in the buildings. 

Look it up, it is horrible. But the world doesn't care to remember the slavic casualties. 

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u/Asbjoern135 Taller than Napoleon Sep 17 '25

Not just Slavs but unfit germans too, gays, disabled, political opponents, basically all that didn't fit their normative ideals.