mesoteto said:
TheRealMafoo said:
mesoteto said:
@kas--i wasnt trying to say they were forced i was using them as a point that horrible things happened in every nations history that dont get as much attention as the holocaust b/c we didnt fight a global war dealing with them |
Mesoteto, No one fought WWII because of the Holocaust. Everyone fought Germany because Germany fought them. There was not a single country that took up the fight for humanitarian reasons. Also, 6,000,000 people being extinguished is the single worst act in world history and it happened only 70 years ago. That’s why it gets so much attention. |
i didnt say thats why we fought the war.....but once we were over there it became a big part of what teh media at teh time clong to to show how evil germany was---it was a powerful tool for propaganda---here recently it showed up again(in iraq) one of the reason americans were so willing to go over there was b/c of how sadam was treating epople--was it the only reason we went over there....no...was a selling point to get the fence sitters....yes
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I don't mean to keep picking on you Mesoteto, I just want history to say accurate, so I feel obligated to reply.
Most Americans did not know about the holocaust until after the war. It was not until we liberated the camps that we knew what was going on. We had a good idea that people were being detained by 1942, but not that they were being murdered. What little info that made it to The States was just cast aside as propaganda. Germany was accused of atrocities that were untrue during WWI, and what little Americans did hear, they didn’t believe.
