Neptune123
14 Jun 2012
History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]
No question about that. There's good & bad in all groups; Wolinska Brus was definitely one of the bad ones. Do remember, however, that this was after the worst war in history; all wars have horrific consequences, a fact best dramatized in the English literature in the poem Beowulf.
If only the British & French had stomped on Hitler after the Rheinland. If only the US & others had stomped on Imperial Japan after the Manchurian incident. But no one did anything about the fascist monsters; in the United States, Nazi sympathizers kept our country from doing anything until we were attacked by Japan. which meant a far worse struggle that killed 400,000 US soliders. Had the fascists not been stopped the 60,000,000 who perished might well have been the beginning of a pile of corpses numbering one billion.
I wish I could respond to the person who asked why the Death Camps were built in Poland, but that thread is closed so I'll simply state what my reading reveals here. There were over 1,000 concentration camps in the Nazi empire. Most were slave labor camps. This meant that no German could actually claim not to know what was going on, especially since they knew exactly what was going on with respect to the murder of the handicapped, only about 50,000 ,before the process was halted in Germany itself. The reason concentration camps in Poland were chosen to become extermination factories for Jews was because that's where all the Jews were concentrated; the reason an extermination factory was set up in Yugoslavia was because that's where all the Orthodox Christians lived who were destined for death. It was a matter of German efficiency, not a particular hatred on the part of Poles.
No question about that. There's good & bad in all groups; Wolinska Brus was definitely one of the bad ones. Do remember, however, that this was after the worst war in history; all wars have horrific consequences, a fact best dramatized in the English literature in the poem Beowulf.
If only the British & French had stomped on Hitler after the Rheinland. If only the US & others had stomped on Imperial Japan after the Manchurian incident. But no one did anything about the fascist monsters; in the United States, Nazi sympathizers kept our country from doing anything until we were attacked by Japan. which meant a far worse struggle that killed 400,000 US soliders. Had the fascists not been stopped the 60,000,000 who perished might well have been the beginning of a pile of corpses numbering one billion.
I wish I could respond to the person who asked why the Death Camps were built in Poland, but that thread is closed so I'll simply state what my reading reveals here. There were over 1,000 concentration camps in the Nazi empire. Most were slave labor camps. This meant that no German could actually claim not to know what was going on, especially since they knew exactly what was going on with respect to the murder of the handicapped, only about 50,000 ,before the process was halted in Germany itself. The reason concentration camps in Poland were chosen to become extermination factories for Jews was because that's where all the Jews were concentrated; the reason an extermination factory was set up in Yugoslavia was because that's where all the Orthodox Christians lived who were destined for death. It was a matter of German efficiency, not a particular hatred on the part of Poles.