I have studied history probably more than all of you put together and I would like to correct some inaccuracies.
Really?
First of all the Führer was evidently less evil than Stalin who gets little attention nowadays even though he has done probably the worst things ever. Back in 30' and 40' you could live comparetively free of fear in Nazi Germany as long as you didnt oppose the state...
Unless you were a Jew, Gypsy, disabled or later on homosexual.
The bolsheviks have done things I wouldn't dare to say in a public forum and yet why all the attention is driven to the Germans?
With your extensive knowledge of history you seem to have failed to grasp the fact that the attention in on the Germans because 1)They lost. 2) We were fighting them and not the Soviets.
Not that the Germans are inoccent but I do sense many ignorant people, everywhere, who they will just critisize the Germans because thats what "they are taught to do" and rarely because of their own investigations of history.
While I wouldn't really criticise the Germans I would certainly criticise the Nazi party and that is because of what they did, not because of some vague sort of conditioning.
Many German friends of mine are irritated of how often people bring up A.Hitler everytime Germany is mentioned.
And yet it is the Germans that have laws against the Nazi party and symbols and have had massive problems with the guilt of WW2. Thankfully they are starting to get over it.
Also it is evident by some of the posts here that many of you simply believe things "you have heard" and immediately assumed that *it is said often therefore it must be true*. One example of a fallacy is the 6 million figure of the Jews which is a hoax.
Odd, the only time I have seen the 6m figure being referred to as a hoax is when someone has an agenda. Virtually all historians agree on figures somewhere in the region of 5-6m for the Jews.
Most legitimate books(none was from nazis) I have read including russian books so that i can have broad spectrum of perspectives, state clearly that the number was around 1million and logically 1mill is a lot more reasonable and believable than 6mill???? That wasn't even the population of Jews in Europe at the time according to official figures(not nazi figures).
90% of the 3m polish jews were said to have been killed. That's almost half already.
Prominent writer Laurance Rees in his book "Auschwitz" endorsed by the BBC gives a figure of 1.1million clearly putting into question the whole 6mill story. Is the writer a holoucast denial? should he put into prison? Why everyone who asks questions is labeled a holocaust denial?
I would reread your sources. The figure of 1.1m was for the number killed in Auschwitz. With the other camps (Treblinka, Belzec, Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor and Maly Trostinets) you get closer to 3.8m. And those are the ones killed in the death camps. You then have those just executed and who died in Ghettos.
On top of that you have the 2-3m Soviet POWs that died, And another 2-3m others (Ethnic Poles, Slavs, Roma, Disabled, Homosexual, Jehova's Witnesses).
The sad thing is that all of this was meticulously documented and yet still many people seek to deny it or play it down. Normally with a political agenda.
The fact that Stalin killed more doesn't really take away from Hitler being an evil SOB.
just so you can reply to a post you read.
