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Originally posted by Rudey
Who says more people would have died if just a few planed bombed railroad tracks??? Please tell us. Please tell us how many more death camps would have been set up to kill more people had those "Assets" been diverted.
How many more people would have died if the Allied countries had opened their doors to allow those running away from the genocide?
And, really how many more people would have died had the Nazis ever held power?
And how about the actual events of the holocaust being revealed so late to people? Was that a drain on resources??
And when some church and religious leaders accepted the genocide and murder, was that to save assets?
-Rudey
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I wasn't debating the uterlly despicable nature and horror of the Holocaust - nor was I trying to gloss over the actions of those involved - nor was I trying to distract from the callous and anti-Semitic actions taken by nations in turning away refugees... what I was countering was Sharon's claim that because the Allies didn't specifically target the tranportation networking leading to the death camps, that the Allies didn't care - because thats a sad falsehood to spread.
The Allies were bombing railways and railyards - attacking the transportation hubs of the Axis to cripple their suppy and support network - all designed to weaken their military power and industry, thereby (hopefully) hastening the end of the war. Unfortunately, the death camps, by their somewhat secretive nature were located away from major population, transportation, and industrial hubs - so the transportation network supporting the camps was not actively targeted by the Allies. The sad (and disgusting) truth is that the camps and their supply network were most likely seen as a drain on the already stretched Axis supply and tranport network - attacking or halting them would have freed up resources that could have been used on the front... a cold extension of the land-mine pricinple of crippling not wounding, all in a effort to tie up enemy resources and man power.
I personally think Sharon is wrong in advocating that Israel and Jews must rely solely on themselves - as a nation and people they are part of the world community, a community that should never forget or forgive what happened, and a community that should work together to ensure this. Sharon's statements smacked of a politically motivated message, a particularlly slanted interpretation of history, to support his policies, in effect using the Holocaust for his own political benifit - and that is why I disagreed with his statment.