You have either forgotten or didn't know in the first place that the Holocaust was perpetrated in utter clandestinity, euphemisms being used in the process of systematically killing millions of Jews and other minority groups. It's therefore not totally unsurprising that the word "Ausrottung" was used ("Evakuirung" was another). As David has pointed out successfully, you are totally mistaken in your questioning of this, and if this wasn't your intention then you failed to make that intention clear.
It's offensive because it's anti-Semitic, pure and simple.
So you admit that the word used has different meanings? And you admit that the meaning of a word will depend on the context in which it is used? You accept that to understand what people say we have to look at the situation in which they spoke? Thus, it seems that the point I have been making is in fact correct in principle. I therefore wonder what all this fuss is about, especially since I didn't bring the topic up in the first place.
"Destruction of the Jews" or "extermination of Jews" does not necessarily mean industrialised killing of Jews, does it. It may mean that to somebody who is of average understanding who just assumes that what they are told by mainstream historians, etc. is correct. I think a bit more deeply about things and I do not necessarily simply believe what I am told.
You say that it was all done clandestinely. It must have been, since the only real evidence we have for it is witness statements from people who were there yet who survived - which raises all sorts of questions in itself. I am not, of course, suggesting it didn't happen and I already know what the Nazi attitude to Jews was. It could also be that some neo-Nazis today, far from being Holocaust deniers, are Holocaust
affirmers and are proud of what happened and want it to happen again. But I would first like to know what
happened.
Anyway, it is not offensive to ask questions. It is not anti-Semitic to ask questions. That is all I have done, so far. Please stop preaching and hectoring people because they want to ask questions.