[dirtboy]

However, those measures did not include mass murder until after Germany had been at war for two years. Buchanan's argument is that the war gave the Nazis the opportunity to escalate their anti-Semitism to genocide.

That is specious reasoning and you should be ashamed to dabble in it yourself, quite frankly. We have NO WAY of knowing whether or not the Nazis would have refrained from the Holocaust if the war had not started - however, they gave clear indication that they would like to go that way before the war. Take this crap elsewhere.

[wideawake]

That is specious reasoning and you should be ashamed to dabble in it yourself, quite frankly.

It's not just specious reasoning - it is deliberate unreason.

The second the Wehrmacht rolled through Poland they were followed by Reinhardt Heydrich's Einsatzgruppen.

An intentional policy of mass murder was not only contemplated but in active performance literally from day one.