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Originally posted by solosister
I read here so many conflicts as to if Hitler was good or bad, right or wrong.
We live in a world that is mostly grey. And there is a big danger in condemming Hitler and the like totaly. Just because they were barbaric and immoral against a great many people, they were not so against all.
wo studies have been conducted that attempt to number the natives killed by the United States. The first of these was sponsored by the United States government, and while official does not stand up to scrutiny and is therefore discounted (generally); this estimate shows between 1 million to 4 million killed. The second study was not sponsored by the US Government but was done from independent researchers. This study estimated populations and population reductions using later census data. Two figures are given, both low and high, at: between 10 million and 114 million indians as a direct result of US actions. Please note that Nazi Holocaust estimates are between 6 and 11 million; thereby making the Nazi Holocaust the 2nd largest mass murder of a class of people in history.
Originally posted by Regenstorm
reply to post by I_am_Spartacus
Where do we put the Americans?
Perhaps in the category WORSE!!!
wo studies have been conducted that attempt to number the natives killed by the United States. The first of these was sponsored by the United States government, and while official does not stand up to scrutiny and is therefore discounted (generally); this estimate shows between 1 million to 4 million killed. The second study was not sponsored by the US Government but was done from independent researchers. This study estimated populations and population reductions using later census data. Two figures are given, both low and high, at: between 10 million and 114 million indians as a direct result of US actions. Please note that Nazi Holocaust estimates are between 6 and 11 million; thereby making the Nazi Holocaust the 2nd largest mass murder of a class of people in history.
wiki.answers.com...
"Too many people here and in England hold the view that the German people as a whole are not responsible for what has taken place – that only a few Nazis are responsible. That unfortunately is not based on fact. The German people must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern civilization."
Originally posted by Regenstorm
reply to post by I_am_Spartacus
Than why did your ancestors convict the entire German population?
"Too many people here and in England hold the view that the German people as a whole are not responsible for what has taken place – that only a few Nazis are responsible. That unfortunately is not based on fact. The German people must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern civilization."
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by Regenstorm
reply to post by I_am_Spartacus
Die Rheinwiesenlager
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50 years after World War 2 1.4 Million German are still missing - why ?
Before the Iron Curtain was lifted all the missing were assumed to have been in Russian hands. But since opening of the Russian archives which contain detailed information of all their prisoners and made available for public scrutiny. These records show about 100,000 are declared as missing and about 200,000 German soldiers died in Russian hands.
"Die vermißte Million" by Michael Zahlen.
Counting the dead near the camp entrance, all those perished in latrines and mud holes we can estimate a death rate of 15 % .
There is no reason to assume a lower death rate in the other camps which had similar conditions.
If we look at the 5 Million prisoners in American camps alone a death rate of 15 % (750,000) is remarkably close to the numbers Bacque states, considering there were also English and French POW camps.
So officially there was never any need or desire to look for the mass graves or the dead of these camps which officially did not exist.
Dem Volksbund für Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, a agency which looks for and maintains the graves of soldiers can only take care of graves outside of Germany. A law instituted 1952 limits this agency to apply to the German government for permission to find and look after those graves.Such permission was never given, in effect when looking for graves inside Germany their hands were tied.
Anyway who is able under oath to state the position of a mass grave, So far is has not happened. Who would have seen it ? The Americans made sure there were no witnesses. Only with a official, professional search could those mass graves be found.
The Kreisverwaltung Bad Kreuznach has declared all this area a "Gelände unter Denkmalschutz" , protected from anyone searching for burial sites. With a penalty of 125,000 Euro
WHY ?
Why are the war crimes of the Rheinwiesenlager still unanswered?
Why are our fathers, grand fathers still in mass graves, mud holes and latrines near the Rhein?
Why are the losers of Word war 2 after half a century afraid to look after their dead soldier?
Why are the losers of Word war 2 after half a century discouraged to remember those dead?
Why is it a criminal offence to honor the dead of the Rheinwiesen lagers ?
It is like a curse not only because of the death camps by the Rhein also over the entire land where the dead call to their living country men.
[edit on 8-6-2010 by Regenstorm]
Originally posted by Angiras
In WWII, there were ideological issues at stake, but even then the financial interests trumphed the ideological interests, and were the real motivating factors for the conflicts. The Hitlers of the world could not pull off their atrocities without major financial backing--mainly by big banks, who stand to profit no matter who wins the conflict.