Hey SNS Scythian Rabbit here.
This is one thing I disagree with the general alt right, I think a lot of Jews did die in ww2 due to crimes against humanity. Now much of the official holocaust narrative is BS, gas chambers, mengele's human experiments and the shower room stuff were clearly allied atrocity propaganda.
But I think a lot of Jews did disproportionately die due to other reasons. The causes Jews died in millions(my estimate was that 4.9 million Jews died) are
Forced labor: Its no secret that the Germans used slave labor to build factories, weapons and infrastructure. The Japanese did it and prisons do this today. 3 million Soviet pows simply died in the camps. It makes no sense that Jews wouldn't too. I think many died due to forced labor as the Germans worked them to death or took them on death marches.
Starvation: This is the real killer, nearly 3 million Soviet POWs died, most of them from starvation and the same is true for the Jews. Its undeniable that most Jews were captured and funneled into concentration camps. Allied blockade and bombing caused starvation and the Germans confiscated food from the occupied territories to feed their own. This caused food shortage for the camp prisoners who were allowed to stave. Over ten million people in German occupied lands died in starvation, its only rational that the Jews suffered this too.
Shootings and persecutions: Its no secret that the Einsatzgruppen in tandem with local militias shot communists, Jews and partisans. In fact most of the mass shootings and murders of Jews and communists were done by Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists who being armed by the Germans ruthlessly persecuted these two groups, groups that had tortured and mass murdered their kin less than a decade ago. At Babi Yar 70,000 Jews were shot by the Einsatzgruppen and there are bodies as well.
The SS had a penchant for mass murders and shootings, think of malmedy, Wormhoudt and countless other examples. The SS alone perhaps shot and killed hundreds of thousands in their long war. As they hated Jews more than all else it makes no sense that they'd make an exception to them, they didn't flinch at killing fellow Germanic English, forget Jews.
- War related disease and displacement: Millions died due to disease and exposure to the elements that came as a result of the war. The pale of settlement saw the heaviest fighting of WW2 with Kiev, Uman, Kursk, Minsk, Bagration, the Dneiper campaign, Stalin's ten blows, Warsaw, bautzen all heavy battle occurring there. It makes sense that the populations there would under go heavy reduction as they did.
Finally there's another reason, the number of Jews don't add up, there were 13 million Jews in 1939, today there are about 14 million, there's no way a group with good birth rates failed to increase their population at all in 80 years, there was a mass culling of Jews.
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