[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
The O.P’s more general point that the divide between “the good guys” and “the bad guys” may not be black and white is so commonplace and obvious as to have become a hackneyed cliche used in popular culture and discussion and the subject of many an entralling movie blockbuster.
It was perhaps not stated in the best fashion and the way it is worded is bound to raise a few hackles.
Ie. Germany coming off in a worst light than deserved etc, is just the wrong emphasis. There is no “better light” for the systematic genocide of millions.
However, arguing that the “good guys” aren’t always squeaky clean is entirely sound and in alot of cases is historicaly, demonstrably true.
The evil that men do isn’t the singular provenance of the figures that history demonises.
Still relevant but on a tangent.
It has been noted many times that the language of the Nazi propaganda machine wass worded to dehumanise the Jewish people into abstracts which ultimately facilitates the ease of treating them inhumanely.
Thus they were often referred to as some kind of “virus” that needed to be “eradicated” or the Jewish “problem” that needed to be “solved” or some kind of infection of the German people that needed to be “treated”.
So much easier for the Conscience to eradicate a malignant virus than slaughter millions of innocent people, so much easier to merely, innocuously solve a problem.
To quote Voltaire…“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities”.
Serious post over…I return you to your normal lolzfest channel.
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If you count only by human deaths, the mognethau plan technically was worse than the holocaust, as 9 million+ died, 1,2 of which died in work camps. while the holocaust killed 6 million, in which all died in work camps or death camps.
http://www.serendipity.li/hr/bacque01.htm