Letters to the editor: A lot more than six million died under Nazis

Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo / MaxPixel

On November 12 you published an important editorial on recent anti-Covid-vaccine demonstrations.

The title of the editorial was "Comparing NZ to Nazi Germany off beam".

Most of the editorial is acceptable but an editorial writer must get the facts correct.

The Nazis killed a lot more than six million people in concentration and death camps.

Six million Jews were killed plus more than five million Gentiles.

Those figures are not estimates. The editorial writer should apologise to readers for these errors of fact.

John McCormick
Chairman of Hawke's Bay Friends of Israel
Waipukurau

Government anything but Nazi

I have no idea how many local people went down to Wellington to be part of the protests outside Parliament the other day, but any claim that our Government is Nazi is risible.

In my view, such infantile name-calling and stupidly ill-informed allegations do not a reasoned argument make.

That these people were protesting freely and openly with a very low-key and good-humoured police presence is visible evidence that our Government is anything but Nazi; for if it were, those people would long since have been arrested by a secret police equivalent of the Gestapo and SS and locked away in concentration camps — or worse: they would now be dead.

Where is the evidence such crimes against humanity are being perpetrated by our Government?

So, to those big people behaving, in my view, like small, spoiled, bratty toddlers, and with too much time on their hands to make mischief, I make no apologies for repeating the cliche: "Get a life!''

T.J. Nelson
Rotorua

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