Defining Exterminate
Take the word “exterminate”. What if I were to tell you that based on the Latin origins of ex (out of) and terminus (borders), it actually means “deport”?
Think that’s ridiculous? Welcome to the asinine world of Holocaust denial etymology, of which the above analogy (courtesy of The Holocaust History Project) is a comparable example of how deniers prefer to read part of a speech that SS-Reichsfhrer Heinrich Himmler gave to a gathering of senior SS officers in occupied Posen on October 4, 1943. The section in question is as follows:
I am talking about the “Jewish evacuation”: the extermination of the Jewish people.
It is one of those things that is easily said. ‘The Jewish people is being exterminated,’ every Party member will tell you, ‘perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we’re doing it…’
Needless to say, Himmler doesn’t exactly leave much to the imagination. Unless, of course,