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Here's the money quote from this article:
“Nazi Germany,” Cooper said, “launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners. [They] went in with no plan for that, and they just threw these people into camps, and millions of people ended up dead.”
Don't know much about history, I see.
There very much was a plan.
A plan to round people up.
A plan to kill them off.
They didn't accidentally end up there.
The Wannsee conference is how we know that.
The National Socialists, being Germans, documented everything. Almost all of it survived. I dare say most of it survives.
We know they did it deliberately from their words and deeds.
Not only did they do it intentionally but they spent significant resources on implementing the final solution that they could have used towards more useful efforts in the war. Even when it became obvious even to the higher command of the Nazi military that the war was lost they stepped up the extermination processes.
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Geez, the Nazis had plans for everything, from pacification of locals to work systems to absorbing the right people into their system to prisoner camps to removal and disposal of undesirables.
ReplyDeleteWho is this 'Cooper' person? What a dork.
And, of course, yet another article by a leftist that portrays national socialism as a far right political system. Sigh.
Good or evil, it will be organized... Very much a cultural thing...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you wrote about this, I was listening to a/the podcast with this guy and was getting uncomfortable listening to some of his ideas about WWII. I'm ok w being uncomfortable but the reason for the discomfort matters, it wasn't just old notions being challenged but also "hey that doesn't add up". In Cooper's case he's arguing that the Germans weren't planning a war of extermination when they went east in 1941. I wouldn't use the Wannsee Conference as the *best* counter-argument to that, as you mention Barbarossa pre-dated Wannsee by 6 months or os. But there's other historical evidence too. Things like the "Commissar Decree" that I think pre-dated Barbarossa or was part of the orders for that where all Soviet commissars were to be summarily executed and there were other related orders, as part of the plan, for mass executions of people they didn't like. If you listen to other (Holocaust) historians, many of them make a good argument for the Nazis didn't plan to kill everyone not even all the Jews in 1933, they mostly wanted to expel them and confiscate their property on the way out. It evolved into the "Final Solution" and that had become part of the total war being waged eastwards by June 1941.
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