You're welcome. I appreciate your response. I am something of a WWII buff and I've read many, many firsthand accounts of soldiers, POWs, the French Resistance, and of course the Holocaust. It deeply disturbs me that there are factions in the modern world trying to pretend the Holocaust never happened, or to downplay it. I feel like part of why it needs its own word is the recognition of the suffering of countless innocent civilians including women and children, and over six million murdered. Meanwhile the majority of people in "civilized" nations either supported it or did nothing.


This is not playing down any other genocide - just recognizing the biggest one in the western world.