(August 18, 2017 at 1:07 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I hear you and see where you are coming from. I grew up in the north, so we learned that the war was all about slavery. But since then, I've heard from other people who supposedly also know their history, that it wasn't. That the north didn't care at all about the slaves, and were only forbidding them to handicap the south... and the South was merely fighting for Independence.
I'm not a history buff at all. I'm just someone who has heard 2 different stories. You could very well be 100% right. And if that's the case, then I would say the people telling the other story are ignorant, not necessarily racist.
You know, the Nazis had a whole lot of other programs, some of them very admirable, besides murdering the Jews, gypsies and the Slavs. They also didn't start WWII primarily to exterminate the Jews, gypsies and the Slavs. In fact they even tried to come up with many options for getting rid of the Jews humanely without murdering them. The western allies, much less the Soviets, could hardly lift half a finger for the Jews. Germany was merely fighting to redress the wrongs of Versailles, and what they planned to do with all the natives once they had taken over all of Europe and build a state to rival the USA in size and natural resource is hardly any worse than what the Americans did to the Indians.
So I guess you can see both sides concerning the notion of Germany erecting statues of Hitler, goering, goebbles, himmler and heyrich.
