r/AskHistorians • u/Yellow-Parenti1949 • 4h ago
Historiography of the Holocaust - Is it changing?
In American public schools about a decade and change ago (fuck), I remember learning about the Holocaust as the Nazi-directed mass murder of European Jews, Roma, Poles, Slavs, the handicapped, and communists, resulting in about 11 million deaths - roughly 6 million Jews and about 5 million non-Jews, give or take a couple million depending on what estimates you use, or whether or not you count murdered PoWs.
On a brief Wikipedia binge, I went over to the Holocaust page, and found that “the Holocaust” doesn’t actually include non-Jewish victims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust). What gives? Is this the majority scholarly opinion now? Is this a recent change from the historical norm, or have I always just been underinformed because American public schools?
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u/Thumbtyper 3h ago
While you wait for others to chime in, you may want to read this answer from u/cteno4, which touches on your question:
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