This is not a contest. Victim count is the only way I'm prepared to make direct comparisons between the Holocaust and the mass murder by Communist states. The Communists killed far more.
But you said something interesting before, about whether Williamson denied the moral dimension of the Holocaust--singular. I think that illuminates my position. There are many moral dimensions to any evil act, all the more true when speaking of the evil programs of a state.
There are aspects of the vernichtungslager that was not present in the Soviet state--systematic industrialized annihilation for annihilation's sake, as an act of genocide. The only thing Soviet that comes close is the imposed famine in the Ukraine (Holodomor).
Arguing about which is more evil is akin to disputing the number of angels on a pin. What is important is to recognize the manner--all of the manners--in which each program is evil.
Right. It is not one-dimensional. Each nation has its own evil genius. The German nation had the gas chambers and the Russian nation had Kolyma and Holodomor. May we never know what American evil genius is. To say that one method of killing is one a separate plane compared with others is to deny the other evil.
There are aspects of the vernichtungslager that were not present . . .