| There's soldiers and civilians. That's how the Geneva Convention defines people in a war zone. |
It's been amended to include irregualar forces (partisans etc),,hence the term combatant/non-combatant.
| the 6 (or 7) million concentration/labor camp deaths. |
The usual number of 6 million dead in the camps only cover the Jews.
Totally 12-15 million died in those camps.
| AFAIK these causalities aren't even counted |
Correct,,as they are not related with the number of people killed in the camps.
| Also the 20 million Soviet deaths due to the war are seldom mentioned. |
That is because no one has been able to make a count until recently when the old archives were made available.
For instance,,the Red Army lost around 2,5 million men in the battle of Stalingrad,,not counting wounded but including those summarily executed by NKVD and front commanders.
400k-600k of the civilian population lost their lives as Stalin forbade leaving the city out of prestige.
Such horrific losses were kept from the public due to political reasons.
This is (according to my theory presented above) also why "Hitler" have a worse ring to it than "Stalin",,in spite of the Bömische Korpral being a schoolboy novice in comparison with the Butcher from Ukraine.
The full extent of the Nazi crimes were revealed during the Nürnberg trials,,while it took over 50 years to learn the truth of Stalin's.
| Tyler Durden unavailable for comment. |
Where do you think the idea comes from?
