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I'm second-guessing the PP, but a difference between the Holocaust and acts of genocide seems that the Holocaust's explicit objective was to kill and eradicate all Jews (and gypsies and homesexuals etc.) the Nazi slayers could get hold of. Stalin mass-murdered, but mainly as a means for preserving political power. The Japanese murdered, but mainly as a means to enforce military occupation. Slave traders murdered, but mostly as a means for providing the Americas with cheap labor. The US army murdered Native Americans, but mostly as a means to occupy their land.

In case of the Holocaust, mass-murder was not a means but an end in itself.

This doesn't at all lessen the suffering of other victims of genocide, but implies that in this aspect, the Holcoaust is unique.

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All mass murder can be called a 'not a means but an end in itself' [/quote]

I don't think that's accurate.

Stalin, e.g., didn't hate his opponents -he was afraid of them as threats to his power, and thus killed whoever could be a perceived threat.

By contrast, the Eastern European Jewry wasn't a threat to the Nazi's power, niehter real nor perceived.

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