RE: Hitler and the Holocaust
November 11, 2009 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2009 at 6:44 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
@Tails
Unsurprisingly, the thread title reminded me of this book, which I recommend:
"Hitler And The Holocaust; How And Why The Holocaust Happened" ( Robert S Wistrich,Phoenix Press,2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wistrich
If you can be bothered reading that it's also worth reading
"HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS; Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust" ( Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,Abacus 1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jona...ecutioners
Both books will give you ammunition against Christian apologists.The second especially shows how millions of "good christian Germans " knew about and supported The Holocaust.
Lest we get carried away with moral superiority,it's worth being aware that the allies KNEW ABOUT The Holocaust but choose do nothing. Exactly when,is debatable, but some historians claim Roosevelt knew as early as 1942. PLUS of course NO ONE said a word about the Nuremberg race laws of 1935 which stripped German Jews of their citizenship,making Kristallnacht possible which effectively began The Holocaust in 1938.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
Unsurprisingly, the thread title reminded me of this book, which I recommend:
"Hitler And The Holocaust; How And Why The Holocaust Happened" ( Robert S Wistrich,Phoenix Press,2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wistrich
If you can be bothered reading that it's also worth reading
"HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS; Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust" ( Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,Abacus 1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jona...ecutioners
Both books will give you ammunition against Christian apologists.The second especially shows how millions of "good christian Germans " knew about and supported The Holocaust.
Lest we get carried away with moral superiority,it's worth being aware that the allies KNEW ABOUT The Holocaust but choose do nothing. Exactly when,is debatable, but some historians claim Roosevelt knew as early as 1942. PLUS of course NO ONE said a word about the Nuremberg race laws of 1935 which stripped German Jews of their citizenship,making Kristallnacht possible which effectively began The Holocaust in 1938.
Quote:The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze) of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany which were introduced at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. The laws classified people as German if all four of their grandparents were of "German or kindred blood", while people were classified as Jews if they descended from three or four Jewish grandparents. A person with one or two Jewish grandparents was a Mischling, a crossbreed, of "mixed blood".[1] The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans. [2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws .
Quote:Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalˌnaxt]; literally "Crystal night") or the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938. It is also known as Novemberpogrome, Reichskristallnacht, Reichspogromnacht or Pogromnacht in German.[1]
Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 99 Jews were murdered and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Hitler Youth, Gestapo, SS and SA.[2] Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews.[3][quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
