| sonicfan1373 said: You are basically mentioning the prominent Nazi rationalizations of the time (read: Dolchstoßlegende). Germany and indeed many other European countries targeted and oppressed the Jewish people far before the events of the WWI and WWII. Germany lost WWI and they were put under significant constraints which prevented their economy from growing. Moreover, you had the far-left communists and far-right nationalists (the latter would unify under the Nazi banner) who were constantly battling for control and overall trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic. Some citizens were angry and resentful and the nazis channeled their anger towards the Jewish people (who, at that point, were the go-to scapegoats). Also, the vast majority of the Jewish people in Germany (as well as other groups who the Nazis would target) were ordinary people trying to live a regular life. They did not betray anyone and they certainly did not deserve to be sent to death camps to be killed or experimented on. |
Rationalizations are just like ... You're opinion .. Man. (J/k) What you are stating is basically the de facto western rationalization of modern times. They did betray. That makes them deserving of internment camps more than the American Japanese. Imagine if America lost WWII and all those American Japanese detainees were stuck with the dry end of our demolished supply lines. It would look like a holocaust. Of coarse denying the Jewish holocaust is illegal so I'm merely giving an analogy.
