Colonialism, Imperialism & Nazism

Well said and good question, Mike.  
 
However a risk management approach to human morbidity and mortality successively involves (a) getting accurate data, (b) scientific analysis and (c) systemic change (as opposed to legalistic "blame and shame").  
 
A legal process (e.g. prosecution of Bush, Blair and Howard before the International Criminal Court over the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq) is useful insofar as it enables public assessment of the facts.  
 
Sven Lindqvist's brilliant and extremely readable "Exterminate All the Brutes" analyzes the racist basis for European colonialism and makes it quite clear that the lebensraum-driven industrial genocide by the Nazis in Eastern Europe was simply doing to Europeans (Slavs, Jews and Roma) what other racist, genocidal European colonialists had been doing in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific in the preceding century and indeed in the preceding centuries (for detailed accounts of racist, genocidal European colonialism see Chalk, F. & Jonassohn, K. (1990), The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (Yale University Press, New Haven); Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950 , G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950; and "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability"; Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability.

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