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With all due respect, your argument is curious to say the least. You don't seem to be particulalry knowledgeable about the voluminous literature on the subject. In Poland and in Russia, just to give two critical examples, there has been tremendous amount of work on documenting the numbers of victimis by their etnicity and circumstances of death. In both countries there exist voluminius and detailed studies on the resistance and partisant movements on their territories. Some of these studies were authored by researchers of Jewish background. On the other hand, I do not see any obligation on the the part of the Holocaust historians to research in depth non-Jewish losses during that time. In any case, I think that for the most part the search for the million of non-Jewish victims is unscholarly, self- serving, revisionist, and rather pathetic. Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, Ph.D. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jay Swanek <swanek@hotbot.com> > > In response to Jon Petrie (see below), I think many Jewish scholars tend to > aggregate almost all Jewish deaths not in their own homes during the WWII > period because they view the Jewish populations as entirely non-combatant, > and thus aggregate: killings near front line combat; in anti-partisan > "action"; deaths from privation and disease in the cities; in forced treks; > executions for "crimes" or reprisals; death in prison camps, work camps, > open air detention; and deaths both "industrial" and "incidental" in the > functional death camps. > > No one aggregates all deaths of ethnic "White" and "Great" Russians in such > a manner, largely because they are viewed as combatants, I would suggest. > These would probably total 7-10 million alone. > > [As to the entirely non-combatant status of the Jewish communities at least > in the Soviet Union, I think Sudoplatov arguably contradicts this with > regard to logistical support the communities gave to his partisan units.] >
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