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Date: January 23, 2018 08:41AM
This is a very difficult subject. Not trying to make excuses for anyone. Just trying to explain. Not everyone in the German military was a Nazi or rabid anti-Semite -- but some were.
America was a segregated country back then too -- just not a fascist one. Religious exclusion was also commonplace.
Back then, just as it is now, the world was facing an immigration crisis -- not from the middle east but Jews from Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_ConferenceThe Évian Conference tried to reach a solution but it failed. No one wanted them and few countries would accept them.
They didn't want any more of "them" either.
Another issue is the unbelievability of the Holocaust. No one thought that mass murder on such an industrial scale was even possible or desired -- why would you waste resources on killing so many people for no reason during wartime when resources were critical?
People heard stories about what was happening in Russia (i.e. the Einsatzgruppen SS death squads) but few had direct knowledge of the primary extermination camps like Treblinka -- and if you did you knew not to talk about it.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/2018 06:40PM by anybody.