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In reply to the discussion: Hiroshima - quit lying to yourselves [View all]ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Not enough unfortunately.
Although I would have left them in Buchenwald since the Nazis didn't destroy it. While it is UN-Christian of me, I think they deserved to be part of the system they set up and since the Nazis described it (gassing) as a humane way of murdering people, after the Nazi thugs were worked to near death as slave labor like the prisoners had to and starved as well, at least those that were deemed capable of work; others went straight to the gas chamber, they then deserved to take the same walk to the gas chambers millions of other innocent people did when they were no longer capable of work.
Too many got away.
The Nazi's defense was that it was all Hitler. Hitler didn't design the death camps, the gas chambers and crematoria nor did he make it seem that the victims were merely going for a delousing. They were told to neatly stack their clothes and remember where they were so they could find them after they had been 'deloused'. While Hitler was pure evil, he had no problem finding willing participants in his murderous schemes. A lot of these thugs had higher degrees and some had double PhDs, even Goebbels had a PhD.
A lot of Nazi higher ups merely removed their uniforms, had fake a ID and dressed as working men and a lot got away.
At least the Israelis found Eichmann who said he would leap into his grave laughing with millions of Jew's deaths on his conscience. To paraphrase a famous saying, I regret that he had but one life to give for his country. Israel found him guilty and hung him and he still got off easy. At least he gets to see what it's like to be in a crematoria, forever.
Every time I see a ThysonKrupp truck (they make and fix elevators) it reminds me of who the firms were that went out to the site, were told what the Nazi's needed (gas chambers and crematoria) and then these engineers sat down and designed the machinery of death. They deserved death as well, there was no way they didn't know what they were asked to design and build.