A couple points;
1) While there is no reason to doubt Dresden was bombed and nobody seems to be doing that, what does the bombing of Dresden have to do with the holocaust ?
TM cites Vonnegut's work of fiction, "Slaughterhouse Five" as an authoritive source for historical information, is that a feasible thing to do ? After all, it IS a work of fiction ! One reviewer of the book starts out as about such; " The central figure, Billy Pilgrim, is abducted by aliens from planet Tralfamadore...". Does that sound like a good source of historical fact ?
The review;
http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Five-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/04401802952) Comparing the subduing of this continent with the murders of the holocaust is disingenuous at best. Nobody denies that there were barbaric instances during at that time, but to compare the two is 'apples and oranges'. During the subjugation of the native tribes, there were gross violations of decency...as at Wounded knee in Dec, 1890. The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" is perhaps the situation closest to the holocaust experience, where a peaceful people were rounded up and moved under unbearable circumstances, many losing their lives.
We should not forget that for every shameful massacre of Indians, there was a Deerfield, a Unadilla, a Cherry Valley or a Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, where many farmers, tradesmen and their families were slaughtered. It was not all one-sided and the colonists nearly lost King Philip's War.
The natives were often poorly armed against the troops, but that was not always the case. In the struggles of the eastern fromtier, the natives were usually equally armed and certainly they were better armed than Custer's troops at the Little Big Horn.
The holocaust victims were rounded up in cities where they were already disarmed. They didn't feel the need for arms, since they were lied to right from the start, as to their destination...and eventual fate. Upon arrival at the camp, those who could not provide profitable labor for the Third Reich were immediately liquidated. Others, who were able to work were kept, most often at starvation level...until they wasted away and were eventually burned up with the rest.
Although their treatment was sometimes barbaric..eventually the native tribes were provided with their own lands. Some of these lands are not the best, while otheres..including the two reservations in my home county, are located on very choice acreage. The reservation population have a choice to utilize reservation life and it's bennies, or live and work in the general population. The tribes are provided privileges not accorded the general population.
There is no indicator that the Nazis had any such plans for the ones they mistreated. After all, they considered those the exploited as "lower on the evolutionary scale"..
I am not playing down the instances of ugliness perpetrated upon some of our native tribes, particularly the Cherokee. ...But to compare the subjugation of the continent with the holocaust is indeed, "apples to oranges".
