** 26-Dec-2019 World View: Never Again!
pbrower2a wrote:
> The Germans knew that Hitler was treating the Jews disgracefully
> -- but not that disgracefully. Hitler made sure not to kill
> Jews in Germany or in countries in which Germans were likely to be
> tourists. To that end the Nazis did mass killings of Jews in
> places of mass Jewish population in what had been the Soviet Union
> under its borders of January 1, 1941, only to start deporting Jews
> to murder camps in Poland. The Nazis made the Holocaust one of the
> tightest-controlled of state secrets.
> Josef Goebbels, who certainly knew what was going on, corrected
> himself in one speech as he started to use the German word
> Vernichtung (annihilation) of what was to happen to the
> Jews... replacing it with the less ominous, if not by much,
> Ausrottung (uprooting). Germans were led to believe that
> Hitler was 'only' removing the Jews from Germany to 'the East',
> which included places that before the War had huge numbers of
> Jews.
> So why didn't the Allies complain? Because such would have fit
> Nazi propaganda -- that the war was on behalf of the Jews, who
> according to Nazi propaganda, conspired against the German State
> and people. Hitler even claimed that FDR and Churchill were Jews.
> Besides, Hitler would have used the Jews as hostages to save his
> vile hide in the event of military reverses. (OK, Hitler never
> offered to stop the Holocaust to get favorable terms). Winning the
> war, the Allies thought, would solve all problems, including Nazi
> atrocities.
> From an early time Churchill was contemplating severe punishment
> of the Nazis for their many crimes, starting with the slaughter of
> the Polish economic, political, cultural, and technical elites --
> before Hitler even started killing Jews en masse. Hitler
> had to annihilate the Polish elite to make Poland a safe haven for
> the Holocaust.
Thanks for that analysis, which details why the Nazi Holocaust was not
stopped. It's consistent with the point I was making that nobody
cares about a genocide while it's in progress, until it's over, and
then the politicians say, "Never Again!"
Today the excuses are, "someone killed someone, so they're all
terrorists," or "there is no evidence whatsoever of chemical weapons,"
or "the United States did it to embarass us," or "they burned down
their own villages and blamed it on us," or "it's an internal matter."
In the end, to war criminals, people are no different from cockroaches
to be exterminated.