Vatican and Red Cross Helped Thousands of Nazis Escape Justice

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Kasz216 said:

Yes.  I think I can saftely say that they wouldn't of rounded people up and mass executed people.

As for helping Nazis...

"One cannot ignore the role of the Western Allies," the author also writes, "particularly the involvement of the U.S. intelligence services in assisting refugees with a Nazi past and in recycling SS agents at the beginning of the Cold War" in the effort to combat "communist expansion."

Cold War concerns "trumped postwar reckoning with Nazi crimes," Steinacher observes. While the high-profile war-crimes case of Canadian immigrant Michael Seifert isn't referenced in the book, Steinacher says the 1951 escape to Canada of the former Nazi prison guard — the "Butcher of Bolzano" as he was known for his murderous actions at an Italian prison camp in 1944 and 1945 — illustrates the challenges faced by the Red Cross and other agencies handling refugees and immigrants in postwar Europe.

Of course... you wouldn't know that... since you based your entire theory off of one article.  Which extended to "if they could of the Vatican would of used concentration camps."   Which is silly.  If that was true... why was Western Europe upset about the concentration camps.  It takes more then racism to cause all out genocide.

As for Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Seriously?  They were military targets that saved way more japanese civilian lives then cost... that's a fact.

The "less harsh" way of blockaiding would of involved 3/4ths of the country stariving to death as the only way to successfully maintain a blockaide would of been to bomb the railways... which were nessisairy for most of Japan to get their food because their food production was heavily concentrated in one area.

 

Two cities worth of civilians dieing... or... 3/4ths of the nations entire population... which of these is the right choice?  It's common senese.  One isn't worse then the other because one was by a big explosion that killed most of the people instantly.  Hell i'd say that's better then slowly starving to death myself.

Again it's an inability to look at things critically and instead be caught up in the flare and something sounding like something you'd like to believe.

I'm absolutely sure the Vatican would've commit genocide in the 20th century, had it been running a religious dictatorship over a part of Europe.

The part you bolded is just proof of what happens when you see things in too many shades of gray. Then again the Western Allies was a conglomerate of right wing wackos like Churchill. I also knew about it (think this is the only article I read?). However the Vatican has no justification for contributing (are you gonna tell me they were afraid the US was gonna nuke them if they didn't help Nazis escape punishment?)

I think you're greatly exaggerating that number. 3/4ths of the population? Really? You Americans were more interested in preserving your own troops, were afraid that the Russians would make Japan surrender first, and just wanted to show off your new toy, and see what effects it woudl have on people. Heck, your Americans wouldn't even allow an exhibition that showed the brutal effects of your solution to end the war.