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Thread #92687   Message #1775014
Posted By: robomatic
03-Jul-06 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: The British who fought for Hitler
Subject: RE: BS: The British who fought for Hitler
sorefingers:

To indicate they were all the same and broadbrush everyone as you do shows a lack of comprehension which is either brain damage or much more likely, trollery on your part.

It is true that genocide is a common part of our communal history. What is also true is that Nazi Germany brought it to a new level by instituting not on an outside enemy, but on their own citizens and captive civilian population, and industrializing it, and the world (or most of it) recognized this as a new level of evil which is why the Nuremburg Trials.

It is not racially unique among Europeans or Germans to commit these sorts of crimes, and they occur between and within populations, viz. the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the Rwandan inter-tribal genocide.

To broadbrush it purely to get an effect is perhaps what you intended, but in muddying the waters I believe you are displaying the coalescing of a lot of gray matter between your ears.

As to the thread topic, the actions of the British Empire and her leaders speak to the quite minor level of pro-fascist activity once the war had begun, and there was quite a lot of pre-war anti-nazi activity on her part. The existence of Lindbergh and his America-first cohorts, and the despicable Henry Ford speak to the fact that Nazism was a would-be global movement which took global involvement to defeat.