“Cooper then suggested that the murder of millions in the camps was an unintended consequence of Hitler’s unpreparedness for war, ”
Ok folks, this type of talk isn’t just ignorant, it’s evil.
Trying to somehow downplay the evil of Hitler and the Nazis is just wickedness.
Sounds to me like Hitler was prepared:
“Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter – with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It’s a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command – and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
-Adolf Hitler August 22, 1939 in Obersalzburg to his generals preparing for the invasion of Poland
What would you say about people who made up a quote like that? Would they be evil?
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