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Originally Posted by LaRondo
The war was not about concentration camps...
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Not at all? I understand that the camps were not the motivation for the allies. As I understand it, few people outside of the Nazi-controlled territory even knew about them. Even so, I would have thought that they were an important part of the story of the war.
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...by suggesting every average soldier did something at one of the getthos or concentration camps...
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Really? I thought I suggested exactly the opposite.
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...Soldiers fought the war. That's what they did. They died or they survived, by doing so...
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And none of them had anything to do with the ghettos or the concentration camps?
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...Hitler didn't do anything, except having one fit after another, holding irrational speeches and giving insane orders...
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So, who commanded the organization that ran the ghettos and the camps? Hitler had nothing to do with that? And Hitler had nothing to do with invading Poland or any of that world domination stuff? Man, my history education was way off base. I had no idea.
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...Now, what's so pin-dropping about a female who was in the Hitler Youth?
A vast number participated in it, based on the fact that it was mandatory at some point in time...
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We were surprised when she dropped it into the conversation. Sorry to disappoint you. The few German people I've met seem to want to avoid talking about Hitler. She volunteered. There was nothing inappropriate or even uncomfortable about it. I appreciated her openness.
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...And if, on the other hand, it took her that long to find out that Hitler was an insane and drug addicted lunatic, I like to tell you, the list of those who knew about him way before he came to power, is very long...
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I don't doubt that.