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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What?
Like the Holocaust?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's kinda funny how the word "Holocaust" came up in the 70s first. It originally came from a fictitious TV show.

[–]hennaojisan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

A perfectly good English word, stolen. We can't boycott the Zionists and we can't make factual arguments suggesting they are wrong and that typhus, not gas, killed the people in Auschwitz and other relocation camps. Plenty of other Germans died of Typhus too.

[–]blind_sypher88 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Its not an english word, its a Hebrew word and it means "burnt offering"

[–]hennaojisan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

holocaust (n.) mid-13c., "sacrifice by fire, burnt offering," from Old French holocauste (12c.), or directly from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston "a thing wholly burnt," neuter of holokaustos "burned whole," from holos "whole" (from PIE root *sol- "whole, well-kept") + kaustos, verbal adjective of kaiein "to burn" (see caustic).

Originally a Bible word for "burnt offerings," given wider figurative sense of "massacre, destruction of a large number of persons" from 1670s. The Holocaust "Nazi genocide of European Jews in World War II," first recorded 1957, earlier known in Hebrew as Shoah "catastrophe."