The bourgeois like to talk about the Holocaust as if it only occurred after the Wannsee * conference – 20 January 1942 - and that it only effected Jews. This is a profoundly racist interpretation which simply ‘disappears’ the rest of the victims.

"By then (1945) the war had claimed the lives of an estimated 6 million Jews, between 200,000 and 800,000 Gypsies, 200,000-300,000 disabled people, 10,000-25,000 homosexuals, 2,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, up to 3.5 million non-Jewish Poles, between 3.5 million and 6 million other Slavic civilians, as many as 4 million Soviet prisoners of war and up to 1.5 million political dissidents."

* Mark Roseman, The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting, Allen Lane, 2002.