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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:28 PM
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WW II videos make you think....
Some, if not most, of the Germans had no clue what was going on beyond their borders. The media, if not state owned, was severely repressed. The fanatical loyalty to a leader. The demonization of opponents. The need to look outside of the country to get honest news. The overt linkage with something resembling Christianity...

Ok, I can't take this any further and I've successfully avoided the N word. Thank God for Russ Feingold and Conyers ! In 1933 Germany they'd be dead by now or diappeared.
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 09:39 PM
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1. If it walks like a duck
It is ok to call it a duck but some how not if it is like Hitler or the Nazi's.
But go ahead and say it, I don't mind the comparison.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 12:38 AM
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2. pfff, that sig is so last season
Edited on Tue Mar-21-06 12:38 AM by HEyHEY
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 10:02 PM
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4. good sig HeyHey
I still like mine better :)
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 12:50 AM
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3. Debatable
Given the numerous camps and the guards needed to run them many people, like me, think a hell of a lot more Germans knew what was going on than will admit.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html

This list is far from complete. It is estimated that the Nazi established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries. There were several small camps which were created for limited in time operations against local population. Most of these camps were destroyed by the Nazis themselves, sometimes after two or three months of activity. This list does not contain the names of the ghettos created by the Nazis, even if several ghettos (i.e. Theresienstadt ghetto) had their own external kommandos (work team).

In Germany
Bergen-Belsen (probably 2 subcamps but location is unknown)
Börgermoor (no sub-camp known)
Buchenwald ( 174 subcamps and external kommandos)
Dachau (123 subcamps and external kommandos)
Dieburg (no sub-camp known)
Esterwegen (1 sub-camp)
Flossenburg (94 subcamps and external kommandos)
Gundelsheim (no sub-camp known)
Neuengamme (96 subcamps and external kommandos)
Papenburg (no sub-camp known)
Ravensbruck (31 subcamps and external kommandos)
Sachsenhausen (44 subcamps and external kommandos)
Sachsenburg (no sub-camp known)

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Check out 'Hitler's Willing Executioners'. That'll open your eyes as far as who knew in those days.

Let's keep this in perspective.
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