But the political exploitation by a nation, which did not exist at the time the crimes were committed, of arbitrarily exaggerated figures, used to try and prove that the suffering of some far surpassed that of others, and the sacred nature given the event by the very use of a religious term like "Holocaust", tend to make us forget other, even more ferocious genocides such as the massacre of the American Indians and the enslavement of countless Africans, as well as many other mass murders by bloody dictatorships.
Ma lo sfruttamento politico, da parte di una nazione inesistente quando furono commessi i crimini, di cifre arbitrariamente esagerate, per sostenere che la sofferenza degli uni non è paragonabile a quella degli altri, e la sacralizzazione (secondo lo stesso vocabolo "Olocau-sto") tendono a fare dimenticare i genocidi più feroci.