Re: [Leica] Terror

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca>]

Indeed you are right about "the Jewish Question."
However, when looking back on WWII now, that certainly
comes into play as a justification for the war having
been waged. But I'm glad to hear that we don't
disagree on this one, anyway...;-)

B. D.
- --- Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com> wrote:
> on 9/13/01 11:13 AM, B. D. Colen at
> bdcolen2001@yahoo.ca wrote:
> 
> > Okay, George, let me get this straight:
> > 
> > Hitler's swallowing of Europe and murder of more
> than
> > six million Jews - to say nothing of gays,
> gypsies,
> > and the retarded and mentally ill, did not justify
> the
> > Allies waging war against Germany?
> 
> personally I think WWII was absolutely justified,
> read necessary, but it had
> nothing whatever to do with the murder of Jews,
> which none of the allies
> knew about until very close to the end of the war.
> You only have to see the
> footage of the Allies entering the concentration
> camps to understand what a
> massive shock it came as to see what had happened.
> WWII was NOT about saving
> Jews. Indeed the effort to help evacuate Jews was a
> largely voluntary effort
> mounted by the Christian churches and Jewish
> organisations.
> 
> MNoreover, the mistreatment of Jews and others had
> been going on for
> literally YEARS before the outbreak of war with very
> little reaction from
> any of the allies beyond the occasional rumble of
> discontent. Quite a few
> people were glad to see Hitler taking a stand
> against what was perceived as
> the communist menace. And, very privately, many
> British politicians of the
> right regarded Jews as troublemakers.
> 
> What provoked entry into war by the British was
> Hitler's continual breach of
> undertakings. The annexation of the Sudetenland was
> only the latest in a
> long series of aggressive moves, which the British
> had let Hitler get away
> with again and again because no-one (quite rightly)
> wanted another war.
> Churchill, who had argued that Hitler needed to be
> stopped, was widely seen
> as a bloodthirsty warmonger until Hitler's own
> actions made it impossible to
> deny the reality of his intentions and the truth of
> what Churchill had been
> saying.
> 
> -- 
> John Brownlow
> 
> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
> 
> 
> 


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