About 5yr. log retention

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Fri Dec 22 03:16:20 PST 2000


"James A. Donald" wrote:

> The nearest equivalent in European history to the crimes of the the nazis
> and commies was the spanish inquisition,and that was a small scale
> operation: Handcrafted murder rather than mass produced murder.  Each
> victim was individually identified and processed, rather dumped by the
> truckload.  They murdered about 12000, and the world was horrified by their
> crimes.

1 out of 10 for knowledge of history.

I promise not to  mention the witch hunts, or the French & Italian
massacres of Protestants, or the aftermath of the Wars of religion, or
the Thirty Year's War or Louis XIVs campaigns in Germany, or the Turkish
massacres in Bulgaria & Armenia, or the slave trade (which certainly
killed millions) or the Spanish persecution and expulsion of the Jews
(whoops, that *was* the Inquisition, you already got that one)  if you
can tell me why the Tsarist pogroms of the late 19th century & the Black
Hand were neither evil nor "mass produced".

Ken





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