To: Joe Boucher
"Though most of what you stated was correct, Hitlers Nazi also targeted Gypsies, homosexuals as well as handicapped,
not just Jews(not to make light of the Jews)."
Jewish extermination was lay at the heart of the philosophy and the military campaign. Hatred of the Jews is what for the most part drove Hitler and the German people. Others were targeted but it was the Jews by far that bore the brunt. And it was only Jews (even those with just a Jewish grandparent) who were marked for total annihilation. The great majority in Europe of the handicapped and homosexuals together with very many Gypsies survived. Most Jews did not. In Poland of those Jews who were living there in 1939 only 1% survived - over 3 million were murdered by war's end.
20 posted on
04/08/2003 1:42:51 AM PDT by
Asher
To: Asher
No argument there mate.
Again not meaning to make light of the Jews plight during WWII, but evil has popped up since then also mostly in parts of Africa (Rwanda as well as Asia (Cambodia) and in these and other purges the world did nothing.
I mean we just don't want to get involved. They are only Jews or Africans or Asians. Pretty sickening but that is the way it seems.
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