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Hippiekinkster -> RE: The Tea Party and their chosen candidates....America's saviors? (10/16/2010 3:44:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Several errors there.
First, the final solution was up and running before 1942, whatever the revisionists like to claim.
Second, the demarcation between "concentration camps" and "death camps" is a lot more porous than you're suggesting.
Throughout his interviews during the 'thirties, Hitler spewed a great deal of bile at the terrible threat Marxism posed to Western civilisation. Neither he nor Stalin saw their treaty as anything other than a delaying tactic, and they certainly weren't buddies. If you want to see an example of that in '30s politics, I suggest you compare Stalin to Mussolini, in terms of how they got on with Hitler.
I take it you've some similarly half baked refutal that the Condor legion was killing Communists during the Spanish Civil War as well?
Correct. The "Final Solution" was not formalized until the Wannsee-Konferenz of January 20, 1942. I have been to the Haus-der Wannsee-Konferenz in Wannsee, just north of Potsdam, so it's something I know a bit about. Mass executions in gas vans began at Chelmno 7 December 1941. However, the intent to eliminate the Jews from Europe began much earlier. Here is a chilling statement from the Kalisch Governor, Freidrich Ueberhoer, dated 10 December 1939:
"The establishment of the Ghetto is obviously only a temporary measure. At which juncture and by what means the Ghetto, and with it the city of Lodz, will be purged of Jews, I will ultimately decide. In any case, the final objective must be the total elimination of this pestilence."
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