Ask the average gentile American how many Jews died in World War II and he will readily respond: ‘six million.’ Ask him how many Americans or Christians fell in that conflict, and he will not be able to answer. Nor is he sure how many Americans were killed during the Vietnam War, much less the Civil War or War for Independence.
Yet, he is quite sure that ‘six million innocent Jews were murdered by the Nazis.’ When brought to his attention, this disparity of awareness often makes him wonder why he should know with such alacrity about the questionable fate of a three per cent minority population, while far less about the very real sufferings of his own people.”
