They’re not saying only Jews should be counted. They’re stating a fact that the Holocaust refers to the genocide of Jews by Germany. From your own Wikipedia link click on “The holocaust” and you can see the definition right there. Under it you can find where “The term Holocaust is sometimes used to also refer to the persecution of these other groups.” As in: this isn’t what it technically means, but people sometimes say this. Sort of like Kleenex when you mean tissue. Or dumpster when you mean waste receptacle.
That didn’t start till the late 1970s and was because of a Meryl Streep movie…
Yet for decades after the war, the genocide lacked any formal title in English except, perhaps, “The Final Solution,” the term the Nazis used. In Hebrew, the calamity quickly became known as “Shoah,” which means “the catastrophe.” But it wasn’t until the 1960s that scholars and writers began using the term “Holocaust,” and it took the 1978 TV film Holocaust, starring Meryl Streep, to push it into widespread use.
They’re not saying only Jews should be counted. They’re stating a fact that the Holocaust refers to the genocide of Jews by Germany. From your own Wikipedia link click on “The holocaust” and you can see the definition right there. Under it you can find where “The term Holocaust is sometimes used to also refer to the persecution of these other groups.” As in: this isn’t what it technically means, but people sometimes say this. Sort of like Kleenex when you mean tissue. Or dumpster when you mean waste receptacle.
That didn’t start till the late 1970s and was because of a Meryl Streep movie…
https://newrepublic.com/article/121807/when-holocaust-became-holocaust
And yes, like I said…
So what does it matter what the publicly edited Wikipedia defines it as?
1978 isnt ancient Pompeii, we have records of what it was like, lots of people lived thru it and are still alive.
Why pretend?