(January 20, 2016 at 11:03 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 20, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Really? Please tell me you are not a Holocaust denier?Didn't you know that we also put Jews in our concentration camps as prisoners?
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.
http://la8period3.pbworks.com/w/page/259...nt%20Camps
How, I do know that America denied a boat full of refugees that got turned back and most of the Jews on that boat died in Hitler's death camps. But we certainly didn't have our own death camps in the states. I think maybe you keep confusing "concentration camp" which is a death camp, and mere prison camps which are internment camps where no mass genocide happens.
If anyone's rhetoric reflects that "we cant have them" here, it would be Donald Trump with Mexicans and Muslims.
