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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
If we're defining holocaust as "really bad genocide" (rather than something unique which ocurred in the 30's and 40's in Central Europe) then I wouldn't say this was the first holocaust.
But yeah another pretty horrific example of people being shitty to each other on an epic scale.
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Tthis was the first time an event of this kind was referred to as a holocaust (famously enough to gain recognition at least). By none other than Winston Churchill in fact.