Don't think that I'm defending surfer by this he seems to be a textbook holocaust denier.
Everyone has a type of payoff in this I think but it's a very touchy subject. Some think that It's not real or overblown(I don't know why,or how) when everything in history shows that it took place. Anyway though some see it as if this happened because they broke the OT commandments others don't and then there's a whole lot of other views on this.
I think that at times we should put ourselves in the other peoples shoes and look at it and think "whats the payoff?" when people say things. I notice that everyone defends the issues about/of the holocaust dependent of something or someone in their life. I say something because some see this from their position in eschatology and as if it's a fulfillment of prophecy and they need it to provide proof of how they believe. Others argue against it I suppose because they need to disprove it so that they can support their position in eschatology. There's probably many others I'm leaving out of this.
I'm saying this about "someone" because of your post(I agree with it) because like you said they didn't do those things to themselves that you named off it was the Nazi's who saw them as sub-humans and so to them "someone in their family" had this done to them. So it only stands to reason that the Jews would have a "pay-off" in arguing that they were treated this way and I agree that we should help them in showing the truth of their murders and mistreatment.
In another post you said that the Jews don't want pity(loosely quoting you) and I'm not asking for pity ether but instead just to have people "stand in my shoes for a second". As you all know I keep pointing out "the others" and asking that they also not be forgotten. I think there's a type of "hidden issue" that will probably never go away if it's not not addressed because just as well as the families of 6 million Jews are looking for answers about their family members there's also the 11+million "others" looking for answers about theirs.
Again I'm not looking for pity but just that everyone see my own pay-off in this(look at it from my point). I looked at this real deep trying to find answers of "someone"(my own family members) who died in the holocaust and without giving much personal detail I'll just briefly say that the last thing we know was that they were in Bergen-Belsen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp and from other research that they had been transferred from Auschwitz sometime at the end of the war and there was fourteen thousand(a little over half were Jews and the rest "others"..see "I Germany and Austria" paragraph 2 in E.G. Harrison's report)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.or...he-treatment-of-displaced-jews-september-1945
Anyway though though I'm not asking for pity for my own self but I needed to point out something I realize about these type threads that's painful. I notice that in the last four pages when I tried to show the "others" people said they were offended, they gave thumbs down or the red X ect. or explained why the holocaust was Jewish but they realized others were also killed. If we put ourselves in their shoes(the ones looking for their families answers) then their being told "shhhh,I disagree.no,,,thumbs down ect." and not being included in the holocaust remembrance.
I wont let myself be offended by these type reactions but it needs to be said that this is 76 years after ww2 and these people did not want their businesses wrecked,to be tattooed or put in concentration camps ect... They were called sub-humans also and starved and are buried in the same mass graves. If you put yourselves in their shoes they were told in ww2 they sub-humans and now 76 years later they are not equal to remembrance in the holocaust as if they actually are sub-humans? I cannot see how it is so offensive to anyone that my family is not worthy to be included but I meet with objection every time I mention "the others". From what I have found my family wore the badge of disgrace "race defilers" in that they were half Hebrew and half Dutch sub-humans not even worthy of remembrance for being ranked below another race.