Colpy I'm not trying to minimize what happened to Jewish civilians during WW II. The evidence is overwhelming that a majority of European Jews perished as a result of Nazi extermination policies.
But the Roma were just as targeted as Jews. The difference is that by the time most Roma were being hunted down, they already knew their fate if captured. As a result a greater % evaded capture.
The fate of Roma in some ways paralleled that of the Jews. Under the Nazi regime, German authorities subjected Roma to arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder. German authorities murdered tens of thousands of Roma in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Serbia and thousands more in the killing centers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. The SS and police incarcerated Roma in the Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in the so-called Generalgouvernement, German civilian authorities managed several forced-labor camps in which they incarcerated Roma....
...Of slightly less than one million Roma believed to have been living in Europe before the war, the Germans and their Axis partners killed up to 220,000. ...
Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945
The Roma never got their own country. They are still persecuted today. In Europe, being Jewish is far less problematic than being Roma.
I think that historians should be free to examine Nazi extermination policies in order to determine more accurately what happened. But now this whole issue has become a political football. Legitimate historians can't go near this subject or question what actually happened. That would end their careers. Questioning the Holocaust would question Israel's legitimacy, which is why powerful people stomp on legitimate historians and why anti-Semites want to re-open this question.
As far as I'm concerned, you can't fix or compensate for an injustice by creating another injustice...
I could support Zionism, if it didn't involve the forced and often violent ethnic cleansing of 1 million + people who had the misfortune of living on the land Zionists claimed was a land without people. If these people sold their possession and left voluntarily (with a sizable compensation package), then I'd support it. In hindsite that would have been a far less expensive solution. the current situation is unsustainable.
Zionism only makes sense for Zionists. For most Palestinians, Zionism is a means to take their land and property and deny them their fundamental human rights.For these people, Zionism has been a disaster.
Eventually it will be a disaster for Jews too, when it ends... That is not a wish, but what I believe is the inevitable result of some Jews and their supporters using armed commercialism as a means to commit a series of atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity. A few million people can't keep pissing off 1.4 billion people forever. The power balance shift is already well under way.
Back on track... I agree with your original statement that WW II already started by the time Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Before 1939, it wasn't a World War yet. The conflict was just a regional war limited to East Asia.