Hark; What Voice is That? It is Silence.

We know of the six-million; yes, we certainly do.  For seven decades the voices have never ceased telling of them; as it should be. But what of the other six-million? Yes, there were another six-million whose voices have been silent these many decades. But who were they; these silent unknowns?

Before piling on a lot of statistics let’s take care of one huge number of those murdered in the camps.  Three million Soviet Prisoners of War were killed.  Has anyone ever heard the story of even one survivor from among these millions slaughtered? Silence. The Jews have a name for the Holocaust; the Shoah.  The survivors among the Romani, better known as the Gypsies, who lost between 500,000 and 1,500,000 also have a name for the genocide; the Pořajmos. The Roma are a private, basically pre-literate people, seemingly without a public voice. More Silence.

Early on in the purges the Nazis, practitioners of the then popular ‘Science’ of Eugenics, killed 100,000 mentally ill German adults in institutions to cleanse the ‘folk’ of this contamination and perhaps, to begin to learn the death trade. Deep Silence. The Jehovah’s Witnesses refused the Nazi system and contributed their dead to the carnage. Still Silent. Thousands of male homosexuals added to the homegrown bloodbath as well. Heard anything from any of the survivors lately? Silence Again.

 Ethnic Poles were victims of racial profiling to such an extent their murders contributed between 1.8 –1.9 millions more to satisfy the pure-blood lust of the Nazis’. We add another huge block of victims and that brings the total up to where those other ‘six-million’ are mostly all accounted for.  Silence Here. After the surrender of Nazi Germany and the Nuremburg Trials most of the enlightened nations rejected Eugenics as a false science. One notable exception was the United States which continued certain inhuman Eugenics practices aimed at blacks and others. Silence, Really Strange Silence.

 

(The estimates of the lesser  known ‘six-million’ dead are just that, estimates; as are the numbers for the well known six- million. These statistics are courtesy of Wikipedia.)