For what it’s worth, the Holocaust as a label is properly inclusive of various deaths including starvation and disease in the ghettos and concentration camps. Just because many died of malnutrition and various diseases doesn’t mean “nobody’s fault” - it was absolutely cruel and murderous savagery that herded the Jews like animals into these death traps, even ignoring the shooting, gassing and other forms of outright murder.
Sure, that’s fine. It just feels a little deceptive when you realize that the media presented a newsreel as one thing when it was really another. It’s easy for them to say they never claimed to make that association, but I think the association is a natural assumption considering how that footage was presented and framed.
For what it’s worth, the Holocaust as a label is properly inclusive of various deaths including starvation and disease in the ghettos and concentration camps. Just because many died of malnutrition and various diseases doesn’t mean “nobody’s fault” - it was absolutely cruel and murderous savagery that herded the Jews like animals into these death traps, even ignoring the shooting, gassing and other forms of outright murder.
Sure, that’s fine. It just feels a little deceptive when you realize that the media presented a newsreel as one thing when it was really another. It’s easy for them to say they never claimed to make that association, but I think the association is a natural assumption considering how that footage was presented and framed.