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its not any different though to like the hiroshima atomic bombs, which id say are worse. they tried to end a war by bombing 2 huge cities and the affects have lasted well past the initial bombing.
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It sort of is different, like, the Americans didn't bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki because they thought all Japanese people were to blame for everything and that they should all (as a race) be exterminated. Yes, they didn't take the lives of innocent civilians very seriously, but they didn't do it because they were racist psycos. They callculated that it would take more American soldiors to attack and take Japan (due to the viciousness of the Japanese soldiors) than it would to bomb the cities, Japan needed to be defeated to end the war, and it was also a good warning to the Communists of Russia, so they decided it was the only way to end the war. I'm not saying I agree with them, it wasn't a humane, right thing to do, but they did it for a positive end (as they saw it) to end the suffering due to the war all over the world rather than to cruelly work and murder millions of people due to race and religion!
And well, they'd only just got the H bomb, how were they to know about the effects after? It wasn't right, but it wasnt genocide.
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I'm not sure if the second paragraph was for me, but if it was...
I dont think of hitler when i think of germany or the german people, i love them. All of the german friends i have are so nice, they are the opposite to the stereotype that many of them receive from people.
There is always going to be racists, murders, dishonest people and people that stray far from the line of sanity, but i guess as a global society we just have to deal with these people as they come. The holocast is something that happened in the past, its always going to be remembered for the inhumane things that were unleashed on the world. But in society today, there is still terrible terrible acts that are all around us. Assassinations, murders, rape, theft and many more. The holocast is thought of to be so terrible because it was targetted on a certain race of people, but in actual fact there was alot of germans, turks and many other races that died in thoughs gas chambers and death camps. Without all these terrible events, today.. right now would be different.
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Yeah I wasn't saying that YOU viewed German people in this way, but that I don't think many people today do immediatly relate Germans to Hitler, that comes from an older generation, directly effected by the war I think.
Good point, Hitler didn't just target Jew's you're right, there were Communists, Disabled...etc as well, but it's still racial/political targetting.
I mean, Stalin and Mao killed way more of their own people that Hitler ever did, Stalin starved most of Russia's peasents to death for a "free and equal society" and killed many many Christians and Jews, Mao murdered millions of his own people and I think these dictators should be remembered just as much as Hitler is, but to be honest, I think Hitler is mentioned more just because it's nearer to home for us in Europe. I mean, some of my distant Jewish reletives died in the Holocaust (which is a strange thought for me as I was brought up a Roman Catholic!)
To think that something as horrific as that could happen in a country like Germany which is now democratic and reletivly peaceful seems absurd to us now, and scary. I mean, Germany was democratic and peaceful during the Wiemar Gov. and it all just went horribly wrong, it could happen in other countries in Europe, that's all I'm saying, we need to remember and prevent.