Can the truth be somewhere between? Hitler hated to death everyone who didn’t fit his Aryan fantasy mold. Including Jews. Hence the infamous Shoah. As well as a broader genocide.
But then there is no humanitarian tragedy, it seems, without some huckster to capitalize on it, to the benefit of those who didn’t even suffer. And even among Jews the Shoah business has reached its own tragic measure.
It was real, it was bad, the death camps are still standing. A few of my distant relatives (3rd cousin or more) wound up in them.
Was it worse than, say, the Armenian genocide? Or being a Yazidi in a town taken over by ISIS? Hard to say from our comfortable distance. What was unique about it was that the Holocaust was perpetrated by an up until then civilized country, and that it applied all of the modern techniques of organization and efficiency to mass murder.
Sure, the Germans killed every gypsy they could find, and starved or murdered their prisoners on the early Russian front (and the Russians returned the favor). But, the camps were unique.
Now, the question of whether it is “over done” in discussion is a tough one. Anything can be overdone—anyone not white seems to think they deserve reparations, these days. But for people only a generation or two removed from WW II, it’s still pretty real.
No, my comment was about this guy’s “issues.” He denies that the holocaust ever occurred, which is a historically loopy position. So, tongue in cheek, I wondered if he was a climate change denier as well.