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To: carton253

Sounds like a good book.
(In defense of the rest of the world)
I don't think the rest of the world really appreciated the fact that Hitler REALLY meant what he said, (about anything). The idea of a Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald...was beyond the thinking of civilized people.

I recall reading (Paul Johnson?) that before the end of the 19th century Germany was the best place to be in europe if you were a Jew.
It's not much of a defence I know, but it's really the best that can be come up with.


45 posted on 05/17/2004 7:34:17 AM PDT by Valin (Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
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To: Valin
I think you make a vaild point...Who could have fathomed that type of mass murder.

Except, the Allies did know. They knew about the death camps... and they wouldn't do the very simplest thing as bombing the rail head into Auschwitz.

Furthermore, Great Britain knew and still wouldn't open Palestine up.

There were other governments who went out of their way to save their Jews. Why? Because they knew what was happening.

It had leaked out as early as 1942...

46 posted on 05/17/2004 7:49:15 AM PDT by carton253 (Re: The War on Terror. It's time to draw our swords and throw away the scabbards.)
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To: Valin; carton253

Have to agree about the bombing. Early in the war the camps in Poland were out of range (without Russian airfields for refueling) but later we were bombing just about everything else and we could have bombed the rail lines.


49 posted on 05/17/2004 8:10:32 AM PDT by SAMWolf (The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.)
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