what do you mean by inquisition? i understand inquisition to mean an interrogation to find out if you are in some way a 'heretic'. My understanding of the holocaust is that the jews weren't even given the benefit of the doubt, they were exterminated no questions asked.

The holocaust was an indisputable fact. It was man's darkest hour to that point. It proves that education just breeds in evil people more clever ways of killing those with whom they disagree. There is a mindset today that is belittling the holocaust that is abominable and should be dealt with severely. Since those days there have been equally attrocious actions from man to man and sadly not least in the way that Jews are treating their enemy. I would have thought that they at least would have learned! It proves to me that the total deprvity of man is alive and kicking!

No. Those were two completely unrelated atrocities. The only thing they have in common is they were both done by Christians against people who did not conform to their ideals.

The Holocaust was planned and almost completed genocide. No questions were asked and there was no "out". The Holocaust was to be the absolute extermination of two peoples (the Gypsies, specifically the Rromani and the Sinti, and the Jews) plus the extermination of any others considered undesirable, such as homosexuals, Poles, Slavs, political dissenters, dissenting Clergy, "asocials", Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally or physically impaired, etc. The Holocaust took an estimated 11 million lives in just a few years, comparatively. There was no question asked in the Holocaust. Nobody was condemned other than for existing. There was no reason for it other than to exterminate. They did not try to make it sound like there was any spiritual benefit to the Holocaust. The only "benefit" to the Holocaust was that it was supposed to bring about a pure Aryan race. The Gypsies and the Jews were guilty of "race pollution", not heresy. Sometimes if someone in the Inquisition gave in and "admitted" to being whatever it was they were claiming, they could get out of it. In the Holocaust, you could not get out of being the wrong race. Yes, I have strong views about the Holocaust. I think being Rromani ("Gypsy") has something to do with that. The unproven likelihood that a good chunk of my family was murdered also helps with those strong beliefs. It cannot be proven but, since that part of my family left Romania a bit before WWII and were never heard from again, it is likely. The Holocaust would have destroyed large parts of my culture had not we been so adamant in seeking with the few Elders left from the parts of EU where we were almost obliterated with the aims of preserving our heritage. I am certain the Jews had the same problem.