What qualifies as a death in the Holocaust?

by CivilWarfare

The generally accepted death count for the Holocaust is 11 million, of which 6 million were Europe's Jewish population. I am not here to dispute this number or argue it should be lower, to do so would be not only factually incorrect, but also morally appalling.

Instead I'm asking why are these the only ones who are included? What disqualifies the 24 million Soviet civilians from being included in these numbers?

What about the nearly 1 million Greek civilians? The 1 million Yugoslavs?

The Greeks and Soviets had their food taken from them. Though I am less aware about the food situation in Yugoslavia, many yugoslav civilians were executed due to the German policy of shooting 100 civilians per dead German at the hands of a partisan; and 50 for every wounded German at the hands of a partisan.

Even if these were "accidental" or "incidental" the Nazis still planned to exterminate these people; considering them all subhuman, even the Greeks he considered them "tainted" by Slavic blood. Reguardless of wether it was by starvation or by bullet,they didn't bat an eye at the misery they caused and actively sought to maximize the misery.

Source for the civilian casualties: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war

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