[xm177e2]

If an estimated fifty million died in WWII, and 6 million of them were Jews who died in the Holocaust, then the Holocaust should take up 5-10% of the book, not .2 percent

[Rodney King]

If an estimated fifty million died in WWII, and 6 million of them were Jews who died in the Holocaust, then the Holocaust should take up 5-10% of the book, not .2 percent

Assuming that history books should have quotas like that, finbe. Note however, that LePen did not say that the holocaust "should" be a detail in books about WW2. He said that it "was" a detail. Is it inconceivable that someone could have that perspective?

I have probably read thirty books about WW2 in my life, and I would say that in at least 75% of them, the holocaust is only mentioned a few times. I am not saying this is right or just, I am saying that is what I have read.

[Kermit]

The holocaust had almost zero effect on the conduct and outcome of the war. If you are studying the war, the holocaust is a detail. For proof of this, why has their been no mention of the GuLag, which Stalin had operating at full force during the war? Why no mention of the Stalin's ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars and several other nations during the war? Why no mention of the 6 million Poles, Gypsies and other who also died in the death camps? They're not even a detail. Why no mention of the hundreds of thousands of Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians by Stalin during the war? This is just a partial listing of the atrocities, which could be listed.