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Summary: Never to Forget: the socialist Wholecaust.
Review: A very good book, but it could use more information about the "Wholecaust." Perhaps the writer can do an expanded volume or additional volumes. We must never forget the Holocaust and we must never forget the Wholecaust. Six million -- a number impossible to visualize. One hundred million - a number that is also impossible to visualize as the number killed in the Wholecaust that included the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million deaths); The Peoples' Republic of China (35 million deaths); and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (21 million deaths) as the socialist trio of atrocities. What can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible? We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten the one hundred million in the Wholecaust. We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten what the word "Nazi" means: "National Socialist German Workers' Party. We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten that WWII began when the National Socialist German Workers' Party joined with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to invade Poland in 1939. The lamestream media to this very day evade the full accurate phrase "National Socialist German Workers' Party" but use a hackneyed misleading abbreviation. The media use the word "Nazi" to cover-up for the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party, in a vain effort to rehabilitate socialism. And any search of any newspaper's (or any media's) website search engine shows that they have forgotten the meaning. And they rarely mention the larger number killed by all three in the Wholecaust: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; The Peoples' Republic of China; and the National Socialist German Workers' Party. We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible in the socialist Wholecaust. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget the socialist Wholecaust, nor the Holocaust.
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Summary: Never to Forget: the socialist Wholecaust.
Review: A very good book, but it could use more information about the "Wholecaust." Perhaps the writer can do an expanded volume or additional volumes. We must never forget the Holocaust and we must never forget the Wholecaust. Six million -- a number impossible to visualize. One hundred million - a number that is also impossible to visualize as the number killed in the Wholecaust that included the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million deaths); The Peoples' Republic of China (35 million deaths); and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (21 million deaths) as the socialist trio of atrocities. What can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible? We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten the one hundred million in the Wholecaust. We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten what the word "Nazi" means: "National Socialist German Workers' Party. We are told never to forget, but many people have forgotten that WWII began when the National Socialist German Workers' Party joined with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to invade Poland in 1939. The lamestream media to this very day evade the full accurate phrase "National Socialist German Workers' Party" but use a hackneyed misleading abbreviation. The media use the word "Nazi" to cover-up for the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party, in a vain effort to rehabilitate socialism. And any search of any newspaper's (or any media's) website search engine shows that they have forgotten the meaning. And they rarely mention the larger number killed by all three in the Wholecaust: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; The Peoples' Republic of China; and the National Socialist German Workers' Party. We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible in the socialist Wholecaust. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget the socialist Wholecaust, nor the Holocaust.
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Summary: wonderful, accesible history for young adults!
Review: Meltzer writes the story of the Holocaust from an interesting viewpoint. Becuse he is a young 15 year old American Jew, watching the events of the war from afar, he brings a passion to the delivery of the historical information that makes it more engaging and powerful. The organization of the book into chapters according to chronology makes it easy to read as a whole, or a reader can use it to research a particular aspect of the Holocaust. As a teacher of middle schoolers, books that are so accessible and interesting are hard to find. I would recommend any reader interested in the subject to start here- you won't find much better!
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Summary: wonderful, accesible history for young adults!
Review: Meltzer writes the story of the Holocaust from an interesting viewpoint. Becuse he is a young 15 year old American Jew, watching the events of the war from afar, he brings a passion to the delivery of the historical information that makes it more engaging and powerful. The organization of the book into chapters according to chronology makes it easy to read as a whole, or a reader can use it to research a particular aspect of the Holocaust. As a teacher of middle schoolers, books that are so accessible and interesting are hard to find. I would recommend any reader interested in the subject to start here- you won't find much better!
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