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      May be unique is too strong a word here, but the focus on Nazis is primarily because it scarred the European landscape also. I know other places were impacted as well, not denying it. There were many genocides committed by European powers. The Bengal famine in fact took place during WWII.

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      What aspects of Nazi ideology were so unique, or even originating in Germany? Racial “purity,” “Aryan” supremacy, lebensraum (settler-colonialism), and anti-Semitic “Judeo-Bolshevik” blood libel all came from the western European empires and their colonial Anglo spawn first. Even the fascist corporatism started elsewhere (Italy). At most, the Nazis added a new industrial touch to the genocidal policies first employed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas (and then elsewhere).