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To: Louis Foxwell
Before and during WW2, England and Germany both assiduously courted Muslim support in the Middle East. The Holocaust was one of the byproducts of this rivalry

I'm afraid Dan goes off the rails here.

Had you asked Hitler or the other architects of the Holocaust why they were doing it, I seriously doubt Islam would have come up.

Blaming Britain for the Holocaust because they kept Jews from emigrating to Palestine also doesn't hold much water. The actual death toll in the Holocaust was not enormous until well into the war, when the Nazis decided that expulsion of the Jews wasn't possible in wartime, so they'd just have to kill them instead. It's difficult to see how British control of Palestine had anything to do with that decision.

Had the British allowed unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine in the 30s, which would BTW have been a violation of various pledges to the Arabs, it's difficult to see how more than some hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, could possibly have been accomodated, for logistical reasons.

Which would have helped, but would certainly not have been a sufficient refuge for the many millions affected by the Final Solution.

5 posted on 07/31/2013 2:16:37 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians,” Hitler declared as he announced his own plans for genocide to his Supreme Commanders on 22 August 1939. “The world believes in success alone.”
I don't think Dan is off the rails at all. And what number do we reach to make the death toll enormous in the Holocaust? Just because they got more proficient by using gas and ovens doesn't mean that extermination not expulsion was what the Nazis wanted from the start. Hitler learned from the Turks and the massacre. He really learned from the way the west responded to them regarding the slaughter, which was total capitualtion and appeasement.
20 posted on 07/31/2013 8:41:43 AM PDT by freefdny
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