(January 20, 2016 at 3:53 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 19, 2016 at 5:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I don't know, they still were party to it, and even in the states there is no statute of limitations on murder. Now if they simply were not planning it and simply followed out of fear, that would be a better case. But yea, seems to lack pragmatism. I am sure it would be a harder case to make to a German Jew to say "Hey they are too old to do that to them" if you are a German Jew who survived or had family you know died. But add the Dementia in yea, seems pointless.If the Nazis were so intent on eliminating the Jews why were there so many survivors? Why did they bother building concentration camps and stocking them? Heck, the US kept people in concentration camps three years after the war ended.
Having said that I do hate Israeli Jews milking the Holocaust to justify land grabs. As insightful as Ann Frank was, I doubt she would agree with everything modern Israel does.
Really? Please tell me you are not a Holocaust denier?
I really hate black and white thinking. Using slavery of your captured has happened since humans started organized war in antiquity. The slave labor was free so it freed up money for other resources. If the Germans had had the resources at a bigger scale and had not had a inept dictator, they would have killed as many as they could. Fortunately for Europe and Jews and the west, we had more power and he ended up committing suicide in a bunker.
No, while our camps were a result of our own bigotry and fear of the Japanese, which certainly was also bad, they were not death camps nor forced labor camps to produce weapons . They were internment camps. No excuse for those either, but not the same as what Hitler did to Jews.
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