The tall, white and fair haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, dont agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about Cortez the Killer, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitlers Willing Executioners Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust 1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique eliminationist antisemitism in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization the Holocausts stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and thats counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Maos 7. China, or the Mughal Muslim genocide of Hindus the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon BThe Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser Inscription on the back in German Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod. There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time.