In Reply to: RE: "Stalingrad," a film of the battle from the German side. The problem posted by patrickU on October 20, 2008 at 10:08:24:
People with deformities or other visible imperfections (dwarfs, midgets), gays, gypsies, and Jews were already being segregated. This was NO secret to the German people and ugly rumors commonly circulated about the fate these people faced or already had met.
The idea that men innocently don a uniform and just go off to war is a silly excuse. Before the US committed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Vietnam, there were Senate hearings ('63), led by Senator Fullbright, which exposed the impiousness of the regime we were trying to keep in power.
When one goes off to kill, it is imperative upon the individual to know why he is doing so.
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Follow Ups
- By 1933, there already were many concentration camps in Germany. - tinear 16:21:27 10/20/08 (4)
- German society was tired of having their noses rubbed in WWI merde ...... - mr grits 06:43:23 10/23/08 (1)
- "Oppresssion has a strong rebound" - oscar 05:18:14 11/10/08 (0)
- "it is imperative upon the individual to know why"... Not so with the Germanic psyche of that time... - MMasztal 11:54:12 10/21/08 (0)
- RE: By 1933, there already were many concentration camps in Germany. - patrickU 03:02:56 10/21/08 (0)