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Old 05-06-2008, 12:24 PM
TakuanSoho TakuanSoho is offline
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Originally Posted by canuck27 View Post
The word Holocaust is made up of 2 old greek words.
Holo =Total
Kaustos=fire

not all jews died
and not by fire ...

See Webster dictionary
Actually a better translation would be "burnt offering", a holocaust was when you burnt some sort of sacrifice to the gods. You know like cows and the like.

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