[miss marmelstein]

Charming people.

[dfwgator]

In fact, the inspiration for building places like Auschwitz came when Himmler realized that the valuables the Jews were carrying were buried with them in the pits, and there had to be a way of killing where they could get those valuables from them. Also killing by bullets was deemed “inhumane”.....for the Germans.

[jmacusa]

Stalin was shooting thousands night and day in Ukraine long before Hitler did.

[DoughtyOne]

When people start going down the road of..., the Jews run this, or the Jews own that, or some other nonsense equally troubling, the pictures reminding us of what the NAZI did come to mind.

Folks, it all started back then with the Jews run this, or the Jews own that, or some other nonsense equally troubling.

[Leaning Right]

I have a bit of a problem with the title (not your fault, I know). It implies that the Ukraine as a nation was responsible for the atrocities committed on its soil.

Yes, I know there were Ukrainian collaborators who were quite willing to follow Nazi orders. But that was true in every occupied country, bar none.

It would have been better to have said "...the centre in Ukraine".

[Slyfox]

The Nazis began with slaughtering with bullets but they found that the soldiers had a hard time being killing machines, especially with the people looking right at them, without being plied with alcohol first. It was after that they designed a "better way" to kill people with the flip of a switch. Only the hardiest of the psychopaths could coldly kill regardless of any other factor.

Sort of reminds me of now in the abortion killing centers where they chop off the baby's arms and feet so they are less inclined to factor in the baby's humanity.

[Lorianne]

It wasn’t just the Jews. Even before WWII the Soviet Ukranians and others mass killed in a similar manner, or starved to death, millions of people. Remember that Stalin and Hitler were allies at first.

Just read the book Bloodlands that chronicles all this killing even before the Nazis came along and showed them how to do it more efficiently.

This went on over a vast area including what are now Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Russia.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
http://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war.

Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

[GeronL]

Peanuts compared to Russia’s killing spree’s

[kaehurowing]

And yet we ignore identical massacres going on now in the Middle East every day.