sirmoonie
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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #15326 - Nov 14th, 2015 at 11:22am
Joey wrote on Nov 14 th, 2015 at 10:19am: http://www.wsj.com/articles/roosevelt-and-auschwitz-1442609477" Whether or not those words were ever spoken, they were echoed after the war by Albert Speer, who had been the Nazi minister of armaments and war production. If the Allies had destroyed the gas chambers, he told a historian, “Hitler would have hit the roof. . . . He would have ordered the return to mass shooting. And immediately, as a matter of top priority.” Indeed, after the SS abandoned Auschwitz in January 1945, the ever-resourceful Nazis found ways to murder another quarter of a million Jews before the victory Roosevelt did not live to see finally came that May. " And yet a mere 45 years after the murder of 6 million (including those quarter million Jews murdered right at War's end by "the ever-resourceful [Germans]"), the world public at large applauded, hugged, smiled and waved German flags as Germany re-unified in 1990. Watching such spectacles of childish, misguided optimism, you would have assumed (and many young and naive probably did assume) poor Germany had been occupied and divided in two through the selfish, mean-spirited, oppression of colonialist, despotic Allies. Behavior that assures a round III.
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