dogsmilk wrote:
Frog wrote:
[The Americans were playing the eugenics game at the same time as Hitler for example but it hardly gets compared with the situation in Germany.
Eugenics was a popular and widespread idea in the early part of the 20th century. The reason the Nazis get the attention is because they and only they moved into a program of state orchestrated mass murder on the basis of those ideas. Other countries went a far as sterilising people, but nobody else went so far as to kill 'life unworthy of life' and tell lies to the relatives about the cause of death. That is a rather unpleasant thing to do and I'd be astonished if anyone thought it wasn't important to remember that' was the culmination of the ideas of eugenics. Perhaps some other regime would have ended up doing the same, but the fact is they didn't.
Eugenics is alive and well to this day and has been conducting business since Darwin's day, and no doubt before without being considered a recognised field of science. Do you seriously think that the Americans/Anglo American establishment didn't kill anyone in the name of Eugenics? Do these deaths only count if they take place on home ground? They are killing innocent people today have also been sterilising populations around the world through GM crops, inoculation programs and water treatments using eugenics/social engineering programs.
Would abusing then killing one child be a greater or lesser evil than doing the same to three? Surely the issue isn't the number it's the act!
Where did all the native American Indians go? Humm Genocide? Where are all the memorials centers in Europe and the states in recognition of the murder of the Native American people? Maybe that holocaust doesn't count because it's pre WWII.
What about the Indigenous people of Australia who are still abused to this day?
What about the Palestinians who subjected to genocide to this day?
And when people talk about the "official" history of WWII, they generally fail to say exactly what is supposed to be "official" about it. The reason the general course of events is "official" is because every reputable historian agrees on certain core events, much as every reputable historian agrees on certain core events in, say, the Crimean War. Because by the accepted standards of the discipline certain things definitely happened. Not least because everyone involved in said events said they happened. It's very poor historical practice to decide everyone involved in historical events was wrong and something else you imagine happened instead - which is basically Holocaust denial in a nutshell. As I said repeatedly on the DIF, Holocaust deniers believe in a history nobody experienced happening at the time. Which is totally insane.
What always pissed me off on the DIF was people going on about 'what's in the history books' when they'd never fucking read any.
Why is it an offense in many countries to question the history presented by these reputable historians? How is questioning equal to denial see that's where it falls flat on its face! It's emotive and divisive BS a fallacy in a nutshell. The Nuremberg trials were a total farce and the transcripts are there for people to make up their own minds about how justice was administered. History that is prevented from being presented you mean? The whole thing stinks! The bombardment of propaganda has never been reduced, the governments have continued to use the same techniques and much improved ones to this day. Whole populations are being sold government lies daily why do you think the one event which is taboo can't be debated? What other event is there in modern history which has the same laws preventing discussion? Even 9/11 can be discussed and the government data challenged - granted they simply stone wall any legal process but it's still open for debate.