WWII: eighty years on, the world is still
haunted by a catastrophe foretold
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Peter Beaumont
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/2/2019 5:19:36 AM
On 1 September 1939, as the massed German divisions began the invasion of Poland, one of the places that would be quickly overrun was a small and unprepossessing town on a railroad junction close to the Vistula river.
Named Oświęcim, within 10 months it would host the beginnings of the camp the world would know by its infamous German rechristening: Auschwitz.
Today, on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, it still prompts one of the most shaming questions of the war: why allied leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt most prominent among them, failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Europe’s Jews?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/2/2019 7:09:44 AM (No. 169173)
Revisionist History Alert. Churchill wasn't PM, Chamberlain was up to and during the beginning of WW II. And FDR was in a country with little to no military, by law (Neutrality Act) could use it if he had it. Not a word about the most powerful military next to Germany, France. And nothing about the treaty between Fascist Germany and Socialist USSR that secured German's Eastern flank so an attack could be made without war with USSR..
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/2/2019 7:14:55 AM (No. 169175)
Maybe, just maybe, they were preoccupied with saving their countries.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 9/2/2019 7:19:42 AM (No. 169178)
Then, as now, the New York times set the tone for what was newsworthy. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger (Pinch's grandpappy) relegated nearly all Holocaust reporting to boilerplate stories buried in the back pages of that rag. Sulzburger, a Reform Jew vehemently opposed to Zionism, worried that spotlighting Holocaust reports in the NYT would make his paper look too Jewish.
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And just why would it be the responsibility of the United States in 1939, five thousand miles away from Oswiecim Poland, to intervene in something it probably knew nothing about when Poland could and should have had its own military and was surrounded by other European countries who did have militaries? This article is pure crap.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GO3 9/2/2019 9:32:26 AM (No. 169294)
#5 is right. Stalin was the mastermind of huge anti-Jewish pogroms in the USSR which continued even as the Germans invaded. Outside of Minsk for example, the killing was going full bore and stopped only when the Germans came over the hill. This article is worthless.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 9/2/2019 9:42:18 AM (No. 169308)
I'm sure Hitler would have stopped in his tracks if FDR and a major, but in no position to exert any power British law maker had told him to stop. Those massed divisions of the German army would have just turned around. I suspect this type of thinking is also prevalent in our schools, that is if WWII is discussed at all.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/2/2019 9:52:15 AM (No. 169324)
Actually, IIRC, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt did prevent the slaughter. It just took a while to get there. It was too late for some of the Jews, but millions more would have died, had Hitler prevailed. Not to mention that many thousands of people died to get there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/2/2019 10:49:09 AM (No. 169379)
Well, they were kind of busy at the time.
Just as we were blindsided with the Islamic attack on 9/11/01 nobody had any concept of how much evil there is in the world. We can second guess all we like but nobody knew that those trains were not on their way to normal prison camps.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 9/2/2019 11:05:48 AM (No. 169403)
For one thing, most of the extermination camps were in far Eastern Germany or present-day Poland. The concentration camps were deadly too, but their primary purpose was slave labor or detaining people indefinitely. In many cases the Allied armies never got to those camps - the Russians overran most of them very late in the war.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/2/2019 12:47:35 PM (No. 169495)
#4, Poland did have its own military, and AF, and that is why Hitler invaded them first. He knew taking out the biggest, toughest dog in the area would cause the other nations to cave much faster. Thankfully, the Polish pilots managed to escape to the UK, where they were some of the bravest fighters for the Allies.
They fought not only for the Allies, but to free their nation from Hitler's grasp. The depths of depravity Hitler inflicted on Poland would curl the hair of most decent people. Besides, a democrat president who interred Japanese citizens then refused to reimburse them for the loss of all their assets at the end of the war cannot be trusted when it comes to what happened to the Jews. The NYT founding family has a lot of blood on their hands regarding their own people. They all knew, I am convinced of that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
radrelic 9/2/2019 1:43:44 PM (No. 169533)
I read somewhere recently that the newspapers didn't cover much about the holocaust and runup to it.
Possibly the countries weren't interested in the Communist Jews as prospective citizens.
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