Fiolar!
I am running to get to meeting this morning (Like Alison a Protestant who is not Orange!)... but, it has been a very buisy weekend, and I have not had time to comment on the really good conversation going on here. It is a difficult and emotionally charged subject, and folks have been really tring to respect each other, for the most part and that is wonderful.
One thing I can't let pass. Jews did have an active resistance once they learned the extent of the "final solution". Once they found that the camps were not a temporary displacement from the war and political times, they rose up not only in Warsaw, where they fought against unbelievable odds, and for the most part alone, but they rose up in Concentration camps, sometimes with some sucess, as in Sophibor (pardon the spelling)... The fact is that the major powers did not give them suport when it would have counted, and now after the fact, revisionists say they were not brave enough to defend themselves. They were and they did.
All the best,
Larry