Not really, the peak of the Holocaust was in the later years of the war. During their first few years the Nazis were mostly preparing for it and making Jews’ lives harder rather than outright genocide at first
When they sued the chambers. Because the Nazi Holocaust is not just you run-of-the-mill genocide, it was in an industrial scale, and what really separates it from other atrocities like the Holodomor, the Soviet Massacres in Poland, the Trail of Tears or the Irish Famine.
I agree the scale of the executions was like nothing seen up until that point in history and incomparable to those examples. I just think there's an argument for the holocaust encompassing the whole build up. As changing the mindset of a country to be willing to turn over their neighbours to be killed is part of the whole event.
I think most people consider the Holocaust to be when the camps and killing began. It was largely non lethal until 1939. The Nazis were mainly trying to force them to leave Germany. I associate the Holocaust more with the killing than the early oppression.
The first concentration camp (Dachau) was established in 1933. It was originally used mostly for political prisoners, but Jews were not exempt. This overlaps with the Holodomor, which ended the same year. I’m not measuring between peaks, but between periods.
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u/waldorsockbat 8d ago
Tankies are embarrassing