Posted on 04/21/2005 11:58:32 AM PDT by lizol
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Unbelievable. This should set an example to people of all nations and races; if you do not protect yourselves then no one else will.
Or - you can count, count on yourself.
I'm a little unclear as to the intent of this article.
Is the author's point that, if only the U.S, the U.K., and/or the Soviet Union had taken in six million people, there would have been no Holocaust? ...and by extension, these countries are culpable?
Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Given what we know now, I feel reasonably sure that the three countries would have found a way (at least two of them would have).
No one could have foreseen that Hitler actually planned to kill six million people, though.
Soviets and Germans agree to final solution of Jews. And the Stormfront trolls would have us believe we fought the wrong country during WWII. We fought the nazis until 1945, then the commies from 1945 until they collapsed in 1991. Only difference is that the russians had nukes. Imagine that inbred, effeminate little Austrian having nukes?! I shudder.
Thanks!
These are both aspects of the tragedy that I had no knowledge of. I will start educating myself.
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You are right. Most Israelis know this better than anyone in todays world.
If FDR had opened America's doors instead of slamming them shut so many European Jews would have been saved from the death camps of German Nazism, as well as post-war Russian Communism.
If FDR had opened America's doors instead of slamming them shut so many European Jews would have been saved from the death camps of German Nazism, as well as post-war Russian Communism.
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Sadly the same happened in many other countries including the UK. WW2 is a lesson to everyone to be prepared.
So true, and then after the war unfortunately Britain & other Allied nations kept Jewish DP (Displaced Person) survivors of the death camps in similar 'living' conditions.
Madness.
I'm not an expert on how well FDR took advantage of his powers to save Jews and other people in danger of being killed by the Nazis, but Congress had passed the laws setting up quotas based on national origins, and could have changed the laws...so maybe they deserve some of the blame.
"Hitler offered to send German Jews to the United States, the UK, and the Soviet Union. All of these countries declined the offer. Then the Holocaust began"
This is stupid. Next he would have offered to "send" Gypsies, Poles plus a few other nations and most of Europe would have been conquered without one shot.
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