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In cabinet discussions on what they might do with Hitler if he was captured, Churchill said in December 1942: “If Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death.”
“This man is the mainspring of evil,” he added.
originally posted by: xuenchen
I've asked and, no most people didn't know.
Many at the time remember Time Magazine Man of the Year. 😁
originally posted by: RonnieJersey
But Hitler was also manic about what he saw as the takeover of German money by other nationalities, and the masses who were poverty-stricken followed him.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
What I've always heard is that, until Allied forces actually found the concentration camps, the average American soldier had no clue about the Holocaust or any of its attendant horrors. Apparently, some rumors of it reach the Western press, but it was so over-the-top evil that most dismissed the stories as propaganda.
News has been given on the wireless tonight about the mass murders carried out by the Germans in the district of Lublin in Poland. At the death camps of Majdanek and Treblinka a monstrous operation has begun, aimed at the destruction of hundreds of thousands of human beings who, no matter how valiant, are today absolutely unable to defend themselves or to put up any effective resistance. This means that Hitler is pursuing his policy of extermination of the Polish nation, a policy which he has so far carried out with appalling results and unpunished
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: alldaylong
Yes, but ordinary folk and soldiers didn't.
I beg you, Sir, to forgive me for writing to you personally in this matter but, like all other Poles both in this country and at home, I firmly believe in the friendship and sympathy with your nation that you have always expressed in your speeches and I know that you will not want to leave those helpless victims in Poland to their horrible fate.
originally posted by: Potlatch
Everyone knows that Adolf Hitler was evil, but I'm curious if anyone using this forum in their lifetimes has ever had the chance to ask US veterans of World War II if they knew that Hitler was evil as soon as World War II started or after they saw bodies of dead and/or emaciated Jews, Gypsies, and gays at concentration camps in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Mauthasen, and Dachau. A search done on Google Books by me shows that a passage from the article about the film The Great Dictator in the 1940 issue of the magazine LIFE uses the word evil to describe Hitler, and when I recently saw a January 2006 news article talking about declassified documents showing that Winston Churchill discussed with his war cabinet in December 1942 the option of putting Adolf Hitler in an electric chair and electrocuted if he were captured, I found this passage from the news article making clear that Churchill himself was not afraid to use the word "evil" when characterizing Hitler during the first year of US involvement in World War II:
In cabinet discussions on what they might do with Hitler if he was captured, Churchill said in December 1942: “If Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death.”
“This man is the mainspring of evil,” he added.