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One thing Israel apologists are learning in their attacks on Korea is that the non-Western world does not view the Holocaust as unique to Jews. Koreans, for example, are not only adamant about their history, but also that this history extends to the rest of the world: Holocaust-like events (as in, direct Nazi killing/torture of civilians and POWs) affected 10+ million non-Jews in Central & Eastern Europe, while imperial Japan, a Nazi ally, killed 10+ million across China, Korea, the Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, and more. Japan's Unit 731 was the analogue to Germany's more well-known Josef Mengele, although Unit 731 was an army-run, industrial-scale torture/human program in contrast to Mengele's more localized activities. In the Manila massacre, there was mass rape, summary execution, the bayoneting of infants, mass murder of hospital patients, the use of human shields, and whatever else we typically associate with Nazism. In the Rape of Nanjing, Chinese were locked and burned alive in their homes, torture was rampant, corpses were desecrated, with a "massacre contest" among Japanese soldiers. It was similar in Korea, with rapes, massacres, and forced labor under deadly conditions. Further, if we include Nazi-induced deaths more broadly, Eastern Europe suffered up to 40 MILLION deaths -- the highest of World War II. This included 1/7th of the total population of Russia and 1/3rd of the total population of Belarus. Isn't that ALSO "a" Holocaust? Why argue ONLY for the definite article? The above numbers, in sheer absolute terms, deserve far wider discussion.