[Michael81Dus]

Read #243.

I think that 90% of Germans never thought of the idea that that the deported Jews could be killed. The average German surely knew that the Jews weren´t well treated, but massmurder? Don´t forget, what happened then never happened before!

I was born 1981, and neither my ancestors were Nazis nor am I a defender of Nazism. No KZ guard can excuse his actions by saying "I was just following orders." But that does apply to some Wehrmacht soldiers - not everybody was given a choice.

You never lived under oppression. You can´t say how it is like not being allowed to say anything against the regime.
Yet you say that the civilians deserved to be carpet-bombed.

I don´t blame anybody for not revolting against the Nazis and I praise those who did, while I accuse those who supported the Nazis and their crimes.

[MNJohnnie]

Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London. Your ancestors reaped what they sowed. Spare us the pseudo victimized rationalizations. It was war. If you don't like what happens, don't start them.

[MeanWestTexan]

The German "I didn't know" line is pure ostrich-with-head-in-sand B.S.

They knew Hitler's opinions re: Jews --- in Mien Kampf that everybody read. In it, he pretty well sets out the Final Solution.

Every one knew the Jews get badged and rounded up. Heck it was on posters and and in newspapers.

And open cattle cars filled with people going to factories that produced little but smoke was a clue.

They knew.