Syria's Assad and regime DESERVE everything they're about to get from the U.S. And the West

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207. You also need to learn history -

We entered the war against Germany on account of Pearl Harbor.

The USA DID NOT enter World War II because of any humanitarian reason. We were attacked by the Japanese at Pearl harbor on Dec 7th 1941. Germany was an ally of the Japanese, so this caused our direct entry.

Whatever rumors there were about the mistreatment of Jewish people were not officially confirmed by our government.

If you ever have a chance to sit down and go through a whole pile of the Life Magazines preceding our entry into the war, you will find it very interesting reading. I am sure you will be surprised as to the current thinking of our media about Hitler. In the summer of 1936, Life Magazine treated one Adolph Hitler as a genius of a man, someone who had finally succeeded in uniting the German empire. (And according to Life, he was doing so in a peaceful manner.) In a centerfold of text and photos, two pages were included that detailed some of the harsh measures that were being utilized against the Jewish people. But the other six pages detailed the splendors of the German Reich, and how stunningly wonderful it all was!

During the early days of World War II, some people here in the USA found out about the German concentration camps. This knowledge came to them on account of people who had been rounded up in 1937 and then released. However, concentration camps were not, back on Dec 8th 1941, synonymous with death by gassing.

France and Germany both had concentration camps during World war 1. They were places where people believed to be strongly, or even possibly, tied into the enemy' war strategy were sent. (Much as how we had concentration amps for the Japanese during World War II.)

People lived out their lives in these camps, often serving a sentence. Back in the late seventies, I had neighbors who were German born citizens who had been held by the French until 1921. (IIRC.) Although people died in the camp due to malnutrition and to disease, most people survived.

The gassing of Jewish people did not begin until the first use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz in September 3rd 1941. However, the preponderance of mass murders of Jewish people and dissidents was still done mostly by execution. People, including labor leaders and other dissidents, as well as Jews, were marched to the outskirts of their village and then shot by machine guns. Although the use of gas increased, even in 1943 people still were killed the old fashioned way. Again, Life Magazine had one or two detailed articles about this, complete with photos.