Are you aware of the Japanese internment camps in America? Describe for us what you think they would have looked like 1-2 years after all American rail and supply lines are destroyed and the troops have been pushed back further inland. That’s how many picture Germany’s interment camps.
The North American POW and internment camps are a good counterexample of systems set up without the express purpose of genocide. POW camps also had some forms of forced labor AFAIK.
But again, is this the ultimate position that some Holocaust critics are arguing from?
That there were late war deaths of Jews from neglect and general disarray, but no actual systematic industrial scale genocide program?
Or that there was some but not as much as generally accepted?
A few bad egg camp/rogue commamders?
That Jewish extermination wasn't top-level Nazi party/command policy?
Frankly it depends on the person and the evidence that individual has seen and studied.
It’s similar to 9/11 - there is an “official narrative”, but that has had so many holes poked through it all we really know for sure is that it is far from the “real” story.
My biggest take away from the discussion can be boiled down by the old Norm Macdonald bit:
It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?
Are you aware of the Japanese internment camps in America? Describe for us what you think they would have looked like 1-2 years after all American rail and supply lines are destroyed and the troops have been pushed back further inland. That’s how many picture Germany’s interment camps.
The North American POW and internment camps are a good counterexample of systems set up without the express purpose of genocide. POW camps also had some forms of forced labor AFAIK.
But again, is this the ultimate position that some Holocaust critics are arguing from?
That there were late war deaths of Jews from neglect and general disarray, but no actual systematic industrial scale genocide program?
Or that there was some but not as much as generally accepted?
A few bad egg camp/rogue commamders?
That Jewish extermination wasn't top-level Nazi party/command policy?
Frankly it depends on the person and the evidence that individual has seen and studied.
It’s similar to 9/11 - there is an “official narrative”, but that has had so many holes poked through it all we really know for sure is that it is far from the “real” story.
My biggest take away from the discussion can be boiled down by the old Norm Macdonald bit: