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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
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.
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Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia (hardly reliable in these matters I realise) says :
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But since the mid-19th century, the word has been used by many authors to refer to large catastrophes and massacres, particularly those caused by immolation.
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