  Since 4.3MM individual jews have claimed reparations from the German government and only 4.5MM jews lived in areas which fell under German control, I would say they are trying to play on peoples sympathies in order to extort money or favors.  People die all the time. And people die even more frequently in war. You juden are trying to turn death, regardless of cause, into a profit center. You're a pack of morbid money-grubbing ghouls!   If you read my post, I'm not talking about jewish deaths. I'm talking about poles and czechs and germans who had homosexual or communist relatives - who aren't gaining reperations.    The thing people seem to be overlooking about the holocaust thing is the dystopian way in which it was done (or percieved to have been done if you aren't a believer in the event) - people were rounded up for crimes they had no control over commiting (being jewish, black, gay, having communist beliefs) and summarilly being executed for said crimes. People's houses got bombed - ok, that's war, that really can't be helped as I stress to my grandmother who thinks all Germans are evil based on a few houses getting bombed near where she lived in the war - soldiers got shot (i.e. men paid to fight and knew what they were getting into) and so on, but the idea of the holocaust is people being rounded up and herded into work or death camps. It's a bit different to a couple of soldiers trouncing each other on the battlefield.