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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
I don't really understand how one can claim ownership over an event. If it's because of their amount of involvement then the Nazis executed it. So doesn't that mean any surviving Nazis, or their ancestors, or Neo-Nazis, or anti-Semites should have a say in what goes as well?
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As others have said, because they made up the largest percentage of the body count, and because much of what is made known publicly, through text, television, etc. about the concentration camps comes from a Jewish point of view, they claim "intellectual ownership" over the event because in a sense it has been handed to them. This is not to say I agree with this, I find it rather disgusting, but when was the last time you saw a documentary on the history channel or read a book about the holocaust that came from the point of view of say a Slavic Catholic, or a Gypsy?
What I'm getting at is, while no, the Jewish community does not deserve absolute representation over the numerous other groups targeted in the Holocaust, that's sort of how it has played out.
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Originally Posted by Shooting Star
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